Wordwizard

So, The Jack of Hearts, what does "correct" mean, in your context, of course? Also, please define "this", because, if by "this" you mean the entire posting, then the answer must be "yes", for the quote, however incorrect or colloquial, can do no wrong, as a quote. If the "this" means the fragment in...

Maybe nobody noticed: it is not a sentence to begin with?

Subjunctivitis irrealis

BMI. Butt Mass Index?

I don't think it should provide more.

Interesting, thanks.
But I'll be damned if there aren't usually more than two choices. Think outside the damned box.

You might say that. It is cold in that it has yet to ignite and join in the burning. You may occasionally encounter the word "afresh", as in "We resumed hiking, starting afresh, the next morning." or "Having cleaned the hearth, he started the fire afresh." But "a fresh stick" would be "single unburn...

No.
He was throwing on the fire a fresh stick that he had brought from the porch.
He had brought a fresh stick from the porch and was throwing it on the fire.
He was throwing a stick.

And don't forget it can be a noun, and your little dog, too.

Thanks, WoZ, for the info. I shall adopt it immediately.

We have a furbearing furbo: foxy.
Interesting... entire concepts are lacking from one culture to the next, regardless of how many words it takes to express them.

Uh....you might try asking them?

PhilHunt wrote: Song lyrics are not literature.

is what I'd call a highly-subjective statement, and basically incorrect. No definition I have found says any such thing.

But if you are writing of the words to what I have called "alleged music", then I'm with you.

Life for "Sorry, Wrong Number".

Remembering that too, Shelley, and I have to say that I find the "Let's just cut through all this nonsense" to be refreshing, once I understand that it is not rude. The context, which I apologise for not having provided, to the coffee quotes: both are responses to the waitress's "Would you like more...