What's the difference between blather and blatter?
Blather
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, as Brexiteer Boris Johnson dismisses the whole Panama story as the Guardian “blathering”, Mr Cameron could point to the advice of a leading QC, which the TUC publishes on Thursday, which underlines all those EU employment rights which are in fact, very often, all that stands between an otherwise-vulnerable workforce and the footloose global elite.
(2) Whatever door of perception that pill is machine-gunning off its hinges, blathering on about the experience through clenched teeth is tedium squared to anyone sober.
(3) And because when you have to talk for the sake of talking – which is the job at hand – your blather quotient is going to increase.
(4) Professional politicians, and their intellectual menials, will no doubt blather on about “Islamic fundamentalism”, the “western alliance” and “full-spectrum response”.
(5) Somehow, a small group of Republican lawmakers have hijacked the national conversation about financial matters to blather about deficits and long-term budgets.
(6) Outside this room lurk beheadings and sharia law, a president who is clueless and weak generals blathering away on TV screens.
(7) Gameplay The plot may be uninspired fantasy blather, but the side-scrolling brawling is exemplary.
(8) "The way that we're living now is good - we're not driven by a desire to get a raise or climb up the ladder because we're pretty much at the top of what we're doing already," he says, and as one-quarter of the most blathered and blogged about band in Britain, he's got a point.
(9) "Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity, and spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another."
(10) The pharmacist Homais's blather about progress is drawn with as much ruthless precision as the Blind Man's scrofulous face, Emma's final agony or her husband's uselessness.
(11) 3.50pm: Birmingham City's Chris Hughton has been asked if he would be interested in replacing Roy – at Wes Brom, not England (yet) – and blathered on about concentrating on the play-offs.
(12) So the Church of England has turned a great opportunity to show why it still had a role as a voice of the voiceless in our divided society into a profoundly dispiriting display of back-biting, bitching and blathering on about health and safety concerns and the lost income from tourists.
(13) David Moyes blathering on about how Man Utd's 1-0 defeat to Liverpool was the best under his tenure was a bit rich, reviews Daniel Taylor .
(14) And, too, because no matter how much practice you have at blathering and how much boilerplate you can regurgitate, unscripted moments can be as rough on cable heads as on politicians.
(15) The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
(16) 4.42pm BST "Currently sitting in an all day professional development class to keep my teaching license," blathers Scott Stricker.
(17) It’s a principle that Conservative politicians blathering about conflict with Spain over Gibraltar would do well to study.
(18) His famed negotiating technique is to propose an exorbitant figure, then let the producer blather and rail about budgets only to find an eerie silence on the end of the phone.
(19) 7.04pm BST "Having cycled through London today I was impressed by the sheer number of jolly Dortmund fans enjoying themselves," blathers Adam Brown.
(20) She doesn't do much of the chattering class's news cycle blathering.
Blatter
Definition:
(v. i.) To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(2) For a start, why on earth was Platini being paid in February 2011 for work he did at Fifa, as Blatter’s special advisor, which finished nine years earlier?
(3) Blatter’s spokesman, Klaus Stöhlker, told Press Association on Thursday: “Before the decision was taken, in the case of Russia and the USA there were ‘behind-the-curtain’ talks.
(4) Nonetheless, Blatter was investigated by Swiss police over his attempts in secret to repay more than £1m worth of bribes pocketed by football officials.
(5) Blatter announced his decision to resign during a hastily scheduled press conference, stating he will leave Fifa after 17 years at the helm.
(6) But it is the presence of Webb on the list that is potentially most troubling for Blatter, who has been at Fifa for 40 years since moving from watchmaker Longines to become the protege of his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange.
(7) The South Korean sat on Fifa’s executive committee for 17 years until 2011 but claims he was a lone voice of criticism against Blatter for much of that time.
(8) Each was accused of giving Caribbean officials $40,000 in cash to gain support for Bin Hammam's presidential campaign against Blatter last summer.
(9) And this naturally provokes envy and jealousy.” Asked when they fell out, Blatter said: “It was after he was elected Uefa president in 2007.
(10) The FA board has hosted both Blatter and Bin Hammam, and is expected to discuss the issue at its board meeting on 19 May.
(11) Vincent Kompany, the Manchester City and Belgium captain, wrote on Twitter: “Blatter wasn’t sole responsible, more have to follow.
(12) Meanwhile, Sepp Blatter will continue to plan his campaign to be re-elected for a fifth term as Fifa president in April next year despite having earlier insisted this would be his last.
(13) Mr Platini, the FA’s choice of candidate for Fifa president on the grounds that he isn’t quite as hostile to the British media as Mr Blatter, is also temporarily suspended from football.
(14) In a statement this week, Fifa insisted that neither Blatter nor Valcke initiated the payment but a letter quickly emerged that showed the Fifa general secretary was aware of the detail in 2008.
(15) Blatter revealed he wants to see TV replays used in a domestic league and at the Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand in 2015, saying that managers could question the referee’s decision, once or twice a half, adding: “We could test such challenge calls”.
(16) "I was deeply moved by the tragedy," says Sepp Blatter.
(17) Blatter said the tournament was now “anchored” and could not be withdrawn.
(18) Keane claims the Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, and his Uefa counterpart, Michel Platini, got the result they would have wanted last night.
(19) President Sepp Blatter has run the "Fifa family" – as insiders are prone to call it – as its mafia-don-in-chief since 1998, and he absolutely needs to go.
(20) To those digesting the latest allegations levelled at Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup , Blatter's rallying of support from the 209 Fifa members will appear extraordinary.