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Sports reporters are guilty of many misuses of language. The three which always make me groan are:
'For those you who are just joining us here is a reminder.' It is not going to be a reminder for those who are just turning on or tuning in.
'If results stay as they are.' The result is the final score.
'Team X lost their first match of the season' instead of 'lost for the first time this season'.

Football produces an endless flow of inane comments from `experts/managers` ...
... `The boy`s done really well since he came on`...
... `there`s no reason why we can`t get a result at their place`

I've enjoyed reading the sports-related posts, but that's only for the novelty value! I'm not very interested in most sports, so don't have to suffer the way you, the other posters, do.

Heard on Radio 4 today `... there`s a lot of hostilism around Westminster`

Thanks, Tyke51. I liked (as in 'enjoyed getting irritated by') 'hostilism'. My mother used to occasionally make up words, but she knew she was doing it.

Hi Malone, my parents always enjoyed wordplay which they encouraged us `kids` to share - my first memory of crosswords was being allowed to fill in the squares in the SE Skeleton - woe betide me if I messed up!

Tyke51, what brave parents, trusting their children to fill in the crossword squares! I know you were being supervised, but even so...

I always played lots of word games with my children, but that was mainly so that I could avoid lots of other activities - all the creative stuff such as Playdough, painting, drawing, Lego....

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/shenanigans-thats-too-polite-for-this-plague-of-cynical-shrivelling-hvrbfxk3d?shareToken=f4d7b9ff3bbf7683e6b1380d24668bc4

To shenaniganate. A new word?

Apologies!
Shenaniganate

Latest 'howler' from a report in our local newspaper, concerning a young lady who had written a book

Apparently said writing caused her fiance so much frustration, that he insisted that her wedding vowels include a promise never to write another

"'Ey, I owe you!" . . perhaps?