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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on September 07, 2010, 10:24:59 PM
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That is the question...
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Shuttlecocks or Horse Trials? That is another question...
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My horse already pled guilty.
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Tesco or Safeway
One of my friends insists on referring to Tesco as Safeways. "Safeways tonight, is it?" he'll say, only to aware that there is only Tesco in my wee toon.
I used to correct him, but eventually I capitulated and now I respond, "Safeway it is, indeed."
You'll have noticed that my concession goes only as far a singular Safeway. You'll never find me descending to plural depths.
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Quite right too. One must have standards.
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You could have used a plural "o" in "only to aware".
Oh, Lord----I've turned into Mince.
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You could have used a plural "o" on "only to aware".
Oh, Lord----I've turned into Mince.
You can stop that right NOW! One Mince is more than enough!
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By some fluke of the English language - there is no plural of mince.
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By some fluke of the English language - there is no plural of mince.
It's not a fluke, Diane. There's no plural of salmon, sheep, deer, scissors, moose, haddock, etc.
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We had this discussion about fish names being singular and plural at the same time some years ago after I brought it up. I remember that Roger was driven to write a Beau Peep strip about it, in which a fish was called Nigel. (I've got one of the originals somewhere.) :-)
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250g of mince does me.
Apooloogies foor the ooffending typoo Rooger.
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You could have used a plural "o" in "only to aware".
So you've not heard of the verb "to aware", as in "to become aware of"?
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I've heard of the verb "mincing" as in "mincing about".
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Is that in order to make hamburgers or mince pies?
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I think Mince chose his name as a covert assertion of his individuality.
"Mince pies" is of course Cockney rhyming slang for "eyes".
...and there's no eye in team.
:o
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I think Mince chose his name as a covert assertion of his individuality.
"Mince pies" is of course Cockney rhyming slang for "eyes".
...and there's no eye in team.
:o
There is "me" though!
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He took the name "Mince" from the old Cherokee, (more properly spelled Tsalagi), language. This is an Iroquoian language with an innovative written syllabary invented by a Cherokee scholar.
Around 22,000 people speak Tsalagi today, primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina. Though it is one of the healthier Indian languages of North America and the one in which the most literature is published.
Tsalagi is still in imperiled condition because of government policies as late as the fifties which enforced the removal of Cherokee children from Tsalagi-speaking homes, reducing the number of young Cherokees being raised bilingually from 75% to less than 5% today.
It means "Twat".
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He took the name "Mince" from the old Cherokee, (more properly spelled Tsalagi), language. This is an Iroquoian language with an innovative written syllabary invented by a Cherokee scholar.
Around 22,000 people speak Tsalagi today, primarily in Oklahoma and North Carolina. Though it is one of the healthier Indian languages of North America and the one in which the most literature is published.
Tsalagi is still in imperiled condition because of government policies as late as the fifties which enforced the removal of Cherokee children from Tsalagi-speaking homes, reducing the number of young Cherokees being raised bilingually from 75% to less than 5% today.
It means "Twat". Of course it does!
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"Twat" for short, I should have said. The full translation is "Twat who swims with the pilchards".
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Even I realized that!
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With a "z"!
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That's Apple for you. I now realise that my default spelling dictionary on the iPad defaults to US rather than UK, and automatically tries to correct my spelling. Unless I see the pop-up word as I type, it puts what it thinks is the correct word in place of wot I writ. My fault. I need to reed the wrds before I press send.
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I stand (or even sit) corrected. The keyboard dictionary is set for UK, but obviously Apple have assumed we in the UK need further educating to spell like wot they do.