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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I'm not much of a swimmer but the building looks fantastic and the facility is surely an excellent addition to the Forest Hill area. Well done to everyone at the Forest Hill Society for the work they'... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Fish Face, if you swim 2.5% faster than the women, then you'll be using just as much pool water ;) |
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15-08-2013, 02:09 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Clearly, Michael, we have our very own Archimedes in our midst! |
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15-08-2013, 03:30 PM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: The Old Bank
| Sainsbury's in Greenwich peninsula has a Starbucks concession inside. |
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05-11-2012, 01:12 PM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Planning: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
| I don't suppose it's a bank, is it? Could do with one of my branches a little nearer to me.
No, I didn't think so...:unsure: |
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21-11-2013, 11:59 AM |
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Thread: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (ex Old Bank)
Post: RE: Planning: 76-78 Honor Oak Park (was The Old Ba...
| [quote]I predict queues out the door - sodo kus :laugh:[/quote]
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Quite right, Mr Orton!
I should clarify, when I said "My first reaction often is, It's none of your damn business how I am today," that is how I [i]feel [/i]but not actually what I [i]say[/i] - wh... |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| The only part of my life where titles are still used is my child's school. It feels weird - like going back in time about 40-50 years.
The exception is if introducing myself in a business email to ... |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]Says Mr Numbers![/quote]
It's a fair cop, guv. You got me bang to rights. :blush: |
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30-03-2017, 12:34 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| You remind me of a documentary I saw very many years ago, at least part of which was about policing in Britain in the post-immigration world. A police officer - with no apparent intent to be insulting... |
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30-03-2017, 05:10 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| To be honest, when some young whippersnapper cold-calls me (in a business context, as opposed to trying to get me to buy double-glazing), it does sometimes rile me when they call up and say, "Good mor... |
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01-04-2017, 08:07 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Of course the English language changes and evolves. But it grates with me when improper or incorrect usage [i]becomes [/i]proper or correct simply because people who don't understand the issue make th... |
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30-08-2013, 11:49 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| 'antepenultimate'? Great word - but I recall from my uni tax law lectures (I still have the scars) that the word m'learned friends use is 'pre-penultimate'.
Having said that I'd never even heard t... |
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04-09-2013, 11:44 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| [quote]And the same goes for split infinitives![/quote]
[i]Fowler's Modern English Usage [/i](aka 'Fowler') has several pages on split infinitives. But it says quite clearly: "We will split infinitiv... |
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19-01-2014, 08:45 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| One more thing. I, too, am an apostrophe pedant - which is why this south London hospital drives me absolutely nuts: http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/Home.aspx
Naturally, the southeast London part... |
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19-01-2014, 08:50 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Er, of course they're both in SE1 - but Guy's is much more southeast than is St Thomas'.
[i](Pedant exits stage left, looking shamed...)[/i] :crying: |
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19-01-2014, 08:53 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| We need Harry Hill to adjudicate:
I like St Thomas' traditional lack of an 's' following the possessive apostrophe, but I quite like St James's ability to move with the grammatical times. But - whi... |
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19-01-2014, 01:26 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| I thought "Farage" was pronounced "Idiot".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10595087/Hand-guns-should-be-legalised-and-licensed-Nigel-Farage-has-said.html |
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26-01-2014, 07:57 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| BBC concerts aside, I've attended a lot of conferences and I've chaired a lot of conferences and I have to say, any chairman who doesn't get the audience to show their appreciation as a presenter is c... |
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25-03-2014, 11:13 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| I might be twisting the statistics but people remember 7% of what they hear (or is it that 7% of what they remember is what they heard?).
Anyway - point being, if you are a conference organiser, y... |
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25-03-2014, 12:50 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| It reminds me of the Road Traffic Act 1968 (if I recall correctly) which says, "The word 'loading' also means 'unloading'." |
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23-04-2014, 11:08 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean... |
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23-04-2014, 01:06 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Where's my tin helmet? I think I'm going to need it... |
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25-04-2014, 02:26 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| "All-important".
I hate that phrase, truly, madly, deeply hate it. It's only ever used by TV presenters. They must stop and stop now.
"And don't forget to add that all-important pepper to your ... |
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15-09-2014, 12:13 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| [quote]One now says 'Very much so!'[/quote]
Absolutely. |
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20-01-2015, 03:44 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| As a friend of mine responded to this very thing on the interweb, "English is hard. It can be mastered through tough, thorough thought, though." |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| [quote]I was pleased to hear the use of 'So' as the start to a statement coming under attack on R4 again this evening.[/quote]
'So' has its place.
It's perfectly fair to ask, "So what's wrong with '... |
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24-01-2015, 09:21 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Nice work, there, Robin Orton! :thumbup: |
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24-01-2015, 11:02 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]A better rename might have been 'pedant's corner'. Place the apostrophe wherever you like![/quote]
The pedants are revolting! :rofl: |
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27-01-2015, 05:53 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| A special treat for you when you have your next coffee break: George Orwell's 1946 essay, [i]Politics and the English Language[/i].
Enjoy!
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm |
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11-02-2015, 11:42 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Looks like a perfectly reasonable summary to me, Robin!
I'd just add, I'm sure that elsewhere Orwell wrote about the use of over-elaborate 'officialese' - deployed by petty bureaucrats and official... |
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13-02-2015, 12:31 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| My understanding of the rule is this: "that" identifies, "which" describes. So -
"The car that is red is for sale."
"The car, which is red, is for sale."
In your 'labour pains' example I'm inc... |
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14-04-2015, 05:10 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]as a reader I need it to be unambiguous[/quote]
rshdunlop, you have of course identified the only rule that truly matters. George Orwell would approve.
Of course, that doesn't mean I'm in ... |
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14-04-2015, 05:15 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [i]Fowler [/i]makes a point about how things sound, noting that 'amongst' is used much more frequently than 'among' when it is followed by a word beginning with a vowel. The same may be true of 'whils... |
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14-04-2015, 06:01 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| It's tipped me over the edge - but mostly because it's failed to grammar properly as it's confusioned the examples for verbing and nouning.
'Architect' is indeed a noun used as a verb and so it is... |
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24-04-2015, 11:20 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]they have a debate on the subject Ed Miliband[/quote]
In order to have a debate you have to have someone arguing 'For' :laugh: |
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27-04-2015, 12:05 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| It used to drive me nuts when BBC newsreader Huw Edwards would pronounce Nicolas Sarkozi as though Edwards was a particularly affected Parisian - nee-koh-la saar-koh-zee, with equal emphasis on all sy... |
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06-05-2015, 12:26 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Meanwhile, back at the 'verbing' and 'nouning', this sentence occurred to me last night:
Management b****cks: "I've been tasked to work on the company project. It's a big ask."
English: "I've be... |
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06-05-2015, 12:29 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I don't know when 'witness' became 'eyewitness', but it can have some hilarious consequences, such as this headline in the BBC News BlackBerry app:
[quote]Amtrak train eyewitness: 'I heard a bang'
[... |
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13-05-2015, 08:14 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I immediately associate 'yoof' with 'television' and Janet Street-Porter. So - no ethnicity implied, AFAIK.
Probably showing my age, again, though... |
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14-06-2015, 04:36 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| I'm going to make a totally wild guess here and suggest that 'young' is out of favour because of implications of relative age - eg, 'You're too young to know...' or 'You're not old enough to realise t... |
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14-06-2015, 05:49 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]My wife thinks I'm wrong too. [i]Roma locuta est, causa finita est[/i].[/quote]
I didn't know what this meant - then I ran it through Google Translate - and now I can't stop laughing! :rofl:
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14-06-2015, 10:54 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| So Radio 4 [i]Today[/i] programme host John Humphrys has been going on about people beginning sentences inappropriately with the word 'so'.
Details here, but be warned: it's in the [i]Daily Mail[/i... |
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24-06-2015, 01:04 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| So you don't see him as a national treasure, then ;) |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| An Americanism, I believe - I think I've read it several times in Lee Child books. The author is in fact a Brit originally but the books are all US-based with an American action hero (Jack Reacher - 6... |
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22-07-2015, 04:30 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| President Obama should go to Glasgow and learn the wonders of "pure dead brilliant"! |
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24-07-2015, 12:14 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Some people pronounce it "TAX dodger", with the accent on the first word, while others pronounce it "I have always acted entirely within the law", with the accent on saving their a***. :rofl: |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| [quote]Stop the press! This morning 9:12 to LB arrived at........wait for it........9:12![/quote]
I am unreliably informed by a completely non-existent person that the 9.12 did [u]not[/u] arrive exac... |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| [quote]they are at least getting better at running the service they say they will, except when they don't[/quote]
Apart from laughing, I'm speechless! :unsure: |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| This just in from TFL - planned closures for the next 6 months.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/track-closures.pdf |
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