Search found 23 matches
- Tue Feb 12, 2019 4:12 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: laundromat
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15881
Re: laundromat
fascinating stuff,
- Tue Feb 05, 2019 2:29 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: Scrumping
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9546
Re: Scrumping
Yes I wonder why the effects can be so violent
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:03 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Dog paddle
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6357
Re: Dog paddle
regardless of all that, in British usage it really is doggie paddle...
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:00 pm
- Forum: Word Origins and Meanings
- Topic: elegiac
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6811
Re: elegiac
Hi Ken, you are lucky if you have not yet read much Waugh. He is a master of style. He used to be generally considered one of the greatest of English writers but seems now to be a bit out of fashion, perhaps partly because of his rather reactionary persona. I would recommend Scoop, Black Mischief or...
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:12 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Endorsement
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8008
Re: Endorsement
Yes "off of" is to be found everywhere, used with many verbs, very ugly and to be avoided on both sides of the pond. It has an unpleasant and very popular cousin: "must/could/should/may/might of" (replacing "have").
- Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:30 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: has had vs. had
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5027
Re: has had vs. had
good point. They don't use present perfect in many places we do
- Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:42 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Manners
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5245
Re: Manners
The whole extract presents the passenger's personality in a certain light. Of the various possible descriptions, "impatient" springs to mind. This leads me to think the passenger would have preferred the shorter formulation, although an expletive would have lengthened it again.
- Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:31 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: has had vs. had
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5027
Re: has had vs. had
the use of the past/preterit or the present perfect in the first verb surely changes everything. In the second example the event is linked to the present, so "she" could still have more children (or indeed "have still more children" - not the same meaning either). However one could argue that if thi...
- Fri Jan 04, 2019 4:25 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: World of a difference
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3537
Re: World of a difference
i see you have taken your quotation from an article on CNBC, Steven, so in this case "enroll" would also be correct...
- Wed Jan 02, 2019 2:19 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: might win yet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5761
Re: might win yet
yes Yet slightly more difficult to achieve than Still in most situations.
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 9:20 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: so charmed
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4641
Re: so charmed
this is not about correctness but about style, and flow.
I prefer (1)
I prefer (1)
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:26 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Rodeo Drive
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6132
Re: Rodeo Drive
I suspect irony in gdwdwrkrs post, steven
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:22 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: New Years present
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3056
Re: New Years present
Sorry, I meant to put this in Miscellaneous. Mea culpa
- Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:20 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: New Years present
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3056
New Years present
Just to say that Marsh Heirs is again free on Kindle today and tomorrow - New years gift
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_no ... arsh+heirs
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_no ... arsh+heirs
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 11:11 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Iron frames
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3998
Re: Iron frames
surely just scaffolding