english grammar help, please
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2008-05-23, 12:54 AM
zehd Wrote:Beer is a non-count noun. However after a few, we say things like I had three beers. (hic-cup)Agreed, however, over the years I've trained myself to say 'what?, I had a beer ???' Quote:It's good to see a Scot that is a pendant, so long as he doesn't also preach intonation or enunciation. (jab)Scottish people are the original pedants
2008-05-23, 12:58 AM
Well I'm off up to Perthshire on Saturday (for a weeks holiday), so we shall see..!
âIf this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.â
2008-05-23, 01:04 AM
gEd Wrote:Well I'm off up to Perthshire on Saturday (for a weeks holiday), so we shall see..!You'll love it...
2008-05-23, 07:36 AM
Hey... I'm just getting all kind of anniversaries in this thread
I'm not always right
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2008-05-23, 08:05 AM
And just to throw into the melting pot
Staff - A group of employees Staff - the lines that music is written on in the western world Staff - A stick used to assist walking anybody got any more Tkgafs Another pedantic Scot
2008-05-23, 11:09 AM
tkgafs Wrote:Staff - A group of employees Staff is a kind of artificial stone used for covering and ornamenting buildings. It is made chiefly of powdered gypsum or plaster of Paris, with a little cement, glycerin, and dextrin, mixed with water until it is about as thick as molasses, when it may be cast in molds into any shape. Staff is a pole a flag hangs on. A water level gauge consisting of a vertical graduated staff from which the height of the water level can be read directly. (thanks google).
2008-05-23, 10:10 PM
With that many meanings for one word, you could have a complete language consisting of only 100 words. I know people who talk that language.
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2008-05-23, 10:41 PM
HtV Wrote:With that many meanings for one word, you could have a complete language consisting of only 100 words. I know people who talk that language. Yeah, I know what you mean. The word "bow" comes to mind also. Bow and arrow. Take a bow. That board has a bow in it. The ship's bow struck a rock. Tie a bow on that package. One word. Many meanings.
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2008-05-24, 08:40 AM
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