Language learning app’s research seems on low side judging by my two-day experiment to record how often I say sorryBritish people say “sorry” on average nine times a day, according to research by Babbel, a German language learning app – the upstart Duolingo. Foreigners were baffled that it was so often, and I was baffled that it was so infrequent.I said it that many times just going once round Tesco Metro (I can’t even process how many times I’d be sorry in the mega-store):Sorry (you are between me and a basket, you ought to have foreseen this, there is only one basket-station. Now that you haven’t, all we can do is mourn);Sorry (I slightly trod on you);Sorry (you’re clearly one of those people who still observes a one-way system, post-Covid, and even though I plainly disagree with this, otherwise I’d also do it, I sympathise with your vexation);Sorry (you’re going way too fast and that’s why we nearly collided, so really you should be sorry, except you seem a bit high, so I am sorry for your predicament);Sorry (we both reached for the same thing, yet the stakes are low, there are 17 more);Sorry (I joined the queue in the wrong place);Sorry (you joined the queue in the wrong place);Sorry (shop assistant, you are very slow to approve my age-sensitive purchase, considering you could ID me from space);Sorry (that my Clubcard isn’t scanning, person behind me, even though I 100% guarantee that yours isn’t going to scan either). Continue reading...