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Seen several times in posts on Nsc - queue when they actually mean cue. It's a prompt, as in an actor's prompt, meaning lots of posts will follow this.

My nephew said the exact opposite at school in a biology lesson about male and female bodies. He said he had tentacles.

Not sayings but thoroughly bad grammar, as espoused on the Planet Earth thread Plurals do not have apostrophes. The plural of hero is heroes. Gggrrrrrrrr!!!

That's a strange one, because you always go up to the capital, but people up north, go down south.

The difference is American English and British English. Gotten in old English is ill-gotten (gains) as in illegally obtained. Gotten in America is instead of 'have got'.

"Cheap at half the price" is the original and correct version of the saying. In Middle English, cheap, or "cheep" also meant goods or property, so the street cry, "Cheap at half the price!", was the Middle Ages' equivalent of today's shop window sign, "All stock 50% off". Chaucer uses this...