Wordwizard

There has been some movement, although not a lot.

Someone has dragged up from the back of memory that a pluck could be a stream running FROM a larger stream or river rather than to it. Still nothing in writing though!

Nothing more exotic than Camouflage Face Paint.
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The Mongoose Principle:

Dear Petshop, Please send me two mongooses.

Dear Petshop, Please send me two mongeese.

Dear Petshop, Please send me a mongoose. Better still, make it two.

If you are not sure, write something that says the same thing that you know is right.

The same question is asked about Mothers Day, although the Mongoose Principle can be brought in and it can be called Mothering Sunday. I tend to think that in a situation like this, where the term is an idiom, that an apostrophe is superfluous. Hence, April Fools Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day etc..

I was asked a question in another place. There is a lake in Swansea called Pluck Lake, and the questioner wanted to know where the name came from. In the back of my mind I have a feeling that a stream of some sort was called a pluck, but I have not been able to confirm it. I don't think that it is W...

Did you know that the well known vegan transexual, Eric Branshawn was a her before?

Quite a few years ago when I was married to my second wife we had five children between us, ranging in age from about 8 to 12. We decided to have a trip to Ireland on the ferry. Before we left the children lined up and I gave each on them an anti-seasick pill. We did the same on the return trip. The...

I don't know much about hair!
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apparently either will do.

Welcome home. I hope that someone can help you, because I can't, but you have got me interested.

I have no idea of what you are trying to say.

a. No. If we go to the movies, it is on a Friday. I wouldn't use this at all b. No. If we go to the movies, it will be on a Friday. It would be on a Friday c. No. We only go to the movies on Fridays, if we do . d. No. We only go to the movies on Fridays. e. No. We go to the movies on Fridays. My fe...

Tony, we used to say that the secretary's desk had a modesty board.

Always sideboards, John.

I have worn a beard since I was 21, 50 years this year, but there have been all sorts of shapes, including a goatee with long sideboards.

I would call it a striker.
I haven't seen a book of matches for years. But then, I don't smoke now.