You most certainly can Steven.
I'm just a bit puzzled about the second question. What is it?
EDIT . . .My thanks to Erik who has answered my question in the post below this.
I feel a bit ashamed of myself for missing something so obvious!
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- Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:41 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Awfully steep
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3481
- Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:30 pm
- Forum: No, wait. Don't tell me
- Topic: Goldfish
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2696
Goldfish
A bloke in the pub told me that he had bought two goldfish. He named them One and Two, because if One died he would still have Two left. And if Two died he would still have One.
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 8:34 pm
- Forum: No, wait. Don't tell me
- Topic: The public at large
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2699
The public at large
I was told by an expert that the spread of Coronavirus depends on two things:
The denseness of the population
And
The denseness of the population.
The denseness of the population
And
The denseness of the population.
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 10:17 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Etymology of the Word "Wizard"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4125
Re: Etymology of the Word "Wizard"
As far as I know the word "wizard" comes from the Middle English "Wys" meaning "wise".
I have no idea where the magical bumbling illegitimate men came from because I have never come across the concept. The wizards that I have met (in literature) have all been wise men.
I have no idea where the magical bumbling illegitimate men came from because I have never come across the concept. The wizards that I have met (in literature) have all been wise men.
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:39 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: his ex-wife
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2988
Re: his ex-wife
Being someone who has been married three times, if you said that you had seen my ex-wife in the pub I would probably ask which one. As would my (current) wife.
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:29 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Let me take care of it
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3371
Re: Let me take care of it
Actually Steven, using all three at the same time would be completely natural and nice.
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 12:32 am
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Green blood stream
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2862
Re: Green blood stream
I would not pay any attention to the piece at all when you see such bad English as, " She would of said to the journalist’s , make sure the camera is on ME... . What should have been written is, " She would have said to the journalists , make sure the camera is on ME... . (The comma is in the wrong ...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:17 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Christ above
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4375
Re: Christ above
I drink my coffee black. Quite often when I order an Americano I get asked if I want milk,
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:13 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: plan
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2450
Re: plan
Sorry, I don't think any of them make sense.
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:02 pm
- Forum: No, wait. Don't tell me
- Topic: Hook
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3752
Hook
A bloke in the pub told me that he hadn't slept for three nights trying to
find out what Captain Hook was called before the crocodile ate his hand.
find out what Captain Hook was called before the crocodile ate his hand.
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:41 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Cakewalk
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3599
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:20 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Bugger
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5255
Re: Bugger
I have not come across "bugger's grips" before, and I am sorry if I am stating the obvious, but surely "bugger" in that sense refers to origin of the word rather than the slang.
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:14 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: one more time
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2771
Re: one more time
I don't think that a native speaker would use any of those in normal speech.
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:12 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: A few shades
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3657
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 10:34 pm
- Forum: Usage and Writing
- Topic: Tradeoff
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3328
Re: Tradeoff
That is a good a description.