"shall" vs "will"?

[Svartalf]

Aye , aye, Bwana Sahib sir.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think we should go back to 'shalt' and 'wilt'.

Thou shalt nae take the English language 5 centuries back into the past.

A regression of 150 years would be more than sufficient.

1863 wasn't a really good year for us.

[Clinton Huxley]

I think we should go back to 'shalt' and 'wilt'.

Thou shalt nae take the English language 5 centuries back into the past.

A regression of 150 years would be more than sufficient.

1863 wasn't a really good year for us.

Oh, of course! Yorkshire County Cricket Club was founded.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Oh, of course! Yorkshire County Cricket Club was founded.

And the New York papers reported that.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

"What fresh hell is this?"

[PsychoSerenity]

Screw it. The new word incorporating both is shill. Yes, I know that's already a word, and I don't care. We're taking it now. You shill use it and like it!

That actually works quite well.

I shall use what words I will.

I shill use which words I shill!

[Svartalf]

thou shilt shut up and stop using that abomination, or I unleash the full fury of the grammar nazis on your sorry arse.

[SteveB]

How about awoken vs awakened!

I think I like awoken more, but I'm told it's more British.

[Bella Fortuna]

And people who wake up crazy are awackened.

[PsychoSerenity]

And people who wake up a kraken are akrakened.

[Bella Fortuna]

Waking up at the kraken of dawn?

[John_fi_Skye]

How about awoken vs awakened!

I think I like awoken more, but I'm told it's more British.

"Awoken" is more about the state of having been awakened. "Awakened" is more about the passive process.

[Svartalf]

Be ye actually awak' as ye're typin such twaddle?

[John_fi_Skye]

It cannae be yer Scots that's makin ye intae siccan ill-trickit loon, Svartalf! Na bi cho gòrach no cho crosda!

[Svartalf]

Hey, I dinna get the Gaelic, be ye rememberin yon fact.

Be yer language nae o'er strang sae tae be ca'in me an Ill trickit loon?

[John_fi_Skye]

Hey, I dinna get the Gaelic, be ye rememberin yon fact.

Ill trickit loon?

The Gaelic means, "Dinnae be sae daft or sae grumphy!"

The Scots song which has the line "Did ivver ye see sic an ill-trickit loon?" was one I heard Jean Redpath sing. It was a bit of mouth-music, with typically nonsensical words, to the same tune as "The black bull's broken oot an bullit aa the kye", and the Gaelic Brochan Lom.

"Ill-trickit" is a term I don't have in my own idiolect: I believe it's from the north-east (where of course "loon" meaning "bloke" also comes from), and I think it just means "ugly". No offence, like!