Oooh, this is nostalgic: a Sunday Tittle Tattle the way it used to be. The way that nature intended. Or at least the way that I intended! Do you remember when the Tittle Tattle was made up of little morsels of unrelated information" Sort of like a notice board" I moved away from it because I thought that people preferred long, in-depth posts, but in these grim days of political uncertainty and crap weather, perhaps a return to brief, lighthearted titbits might be welcomed.
Where on earth did the word titbits come from" I always feel slightly mortified when adults say it out loud to me in real life. Tit bits. Obviously it doesn’t happen often – it’s not like people come up to me randomly and scream “titbits!” in my face; they don’t creep up behind me in a queue and whisper “titbits” into my earhole. I’m not a titbits magnet. But every now and again, someone will say it and it just sounds so dirty, but in a cringey, Carry On sort of way. Tit bits. A quick Google tells me that originally the word would have been tidbit, not titbit – who the hell thought that changing tid to tit was a great idea"
It sounds like the sort of thing my iPhone would do. In the past week, it has changed two perfectly good, reasonably pedestrian sentences into things that could potentially spark legal action. “I would like to open an account” was changed – inexplicably – to “I would like ...