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Sharron | Report | 13 May 2016 19:35 |
I don't really know how to put this without upsetting somebody but I have just read a piece of grammar that is used almost universally now but which still jars with me. |
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Denburybob | Report | 14 May 2016 19:10 |
How about...the only person to volunteer? Unique is another of my pet hates when it is used with "quite" "fairly" etc. It is either unique, or it ain't. I also dislike the use of "for free". Either "free", or "for nothing". But them I am rather old. |
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Dermot | Report | 14 May 2016 19:49 |
bob - careful! |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 14 May 2016 19:53 |
There was no such thing as an "A" level or "O" level before 1951! |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 14 May 2016 21:41 |
Rollo I took my O levels in 1951 the first year and still have my certificates to prove it. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 15 May 2016 10:52 |
Well there you go then - no uni. could have been asking for A level anything in the 1940s. |
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BrianW | Report | 15 May 2016 11:29 |
I get annoyed when I ask someone if they would like e.g. a drink. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 15 May 2016 11:31 |
or another answer is "you're alright thanks" :-S |
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BrianW | Report | 15 May 2016 11:39 |
To which the rejoinder is "I wasn't enquiring about your health"! |
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Dermot | Report | 15 May 2016 11:57 |
In ‘The Story of Civilisation’ (by Will Durant 1885-1981), there is an interesting discussion on the origin of ‘words’ for, as the author intimated, ‘with words, man became man’. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 15 May 2016 16:29 |
Rollo, |