As the Countess in Roman Holiday tells us, either way is correct :-)

Think it depends where you put the stress.

I’d say “Ad VER tis ment”

But if I was stressing the tis part, a “tize” sound would feel more natural.

That’s how I would say advertising, for example, “adver TIZE ing”

Re fall/autumn - is there a US equivalent for the work autumnal? Falllike doesn’t seem quite right, nor fallish, nor fallumnal.

Is that the one about the monkey in the tree? I remember absolutely cracking up at that.

I think it also has something to do with believing that the monarch should or shouldn’t be head of the Church of England. But yeah, pro-establishment, definitely.

😁

After that, just Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, the rest of the way.

Off the top of my head without too much thought…

Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Know Your Enemy - RATM
Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Kennedys
Strange Fruit - Nina Simone
Making Flippy Floppy - Talking Heads (just for the line, “Our President’s crazy, did you hear what he said?”)
Dark and Long (Dark Train) - Underworld (no political message, but it’s long, and I love it and pretty sure he’d hate it)

EDIT: Made it as a playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3fGtqYEgExxbXEvFj0usvDdhxgpFp3Uc

Well, that’s what I heard!

Ghostbusters.

Doesn’t make it any less annoying though! 😁

One reason to avoid using words is that in a global economy, they may want to sell the same product in multiple countries, so you potentially run into translation issues/costs and confusion over whether a product is the same or not between two different places. Using just letters and numbers eliminates that.

Of course, that’s all for their own convenience, not for the convenience of the end customer.

It’s a good thing that it’s socially unacceptable, at least when applied to people, or as a pejorative generally.

It’s still a potentially useful word though in other contexts, eg to inhibit the spread of fire. That’s a different pronunciation, of course.

Well, my point was really that, nowadays, a launch by anyone would likely result in other launches, leading to all out war and global catastrophe. I wasn’t getting into the literal size of bomb impact areas vs global surface area.

We would have nuclear war every year.

I suspect we’d only have it once.

Pretty sure there’s at least one Agatha Christie novel that uses that idea. A little here, a little there…

Although, actually, maybe it was the other way round, like someone was deliberately dosing themselves gradually to build up a tolerance. Something like that.

Seconded, brilliant film.

That’s a really interesting question. I have no idea, but I’d be interested to read what someone with relevant knowledge had to say about it.

Ah, interesting - that could definitely be an option, thanks 👍

Oh ok, cool - although I’ve actually never used Chat GPT either (I sound like a total luddite here, I know!)

Thanks for the tip though, will keep it in mind 👍