Thats horrible clari, I was knocked off the road (in a car) by a drunk hit and run back in the 80s, coming home from work, light straight stretch of road a couple of miles from home. Car overturned 3 times, over a metal fence, luckily I wasnt impailed, and also lucky cars behind saw it happen, the car finnished on its side in a field no-one would have found me, I couldnt get out. they got me out the window, bloke who drove me home said he couldnt be a witness as he had lost his licence!! Police found the car and driver, he deneyed being there, (he was "known" to them, and on a driving ban) Car was on finance, we had to pay for it for 4 months while insurance company sorted it out. Me, I had 2 bruises on my knees which hit the dash, blokes who stopped felt sure I would be dead! The scars were "mental", have been in 3 entrapments, (none of which were me fuilt) I am now the worst passenger on the planet!
"Mr Hartill accuses me of nonsense when I say that octopus is 3rd declension Greek. I was simply using "is" as short for "is derived from".
The reason that it is not spelt "octopous" is that in Latin, "ou" is never a diphthong, so that a Latin word "octopous" would have four syllables. When Greek words are transliterated into Latin, the convention is that upsilon alone is represented by the letter y, while the Greek diphthong omicron upsilon is represented by the single letter u. Matters are complicated by a further convention that the 2nd declension nominative masculine ending omicron sigma is Latinised to "-us".
An example of this is the name of Jesus Christ, which in Latin is "Jesus Christus", with Jesus 4th declension and Christus 2nd declension. The Greek form has the spelling Iota eta sigma omicron upsilon sigma Chi rho iota sigma tau omicron sigma."
I mean??? what the flip?
However, I love this one:
" Pedantry is a rare and beautiful thing these days and the mere sniff of it brings joy to my heart"
The best bit of Latin classes was last day when Mr Kerr (basso profondo) would read us Winnie the Pooh! We were 11 and deeply ashamed of enjoying being read to.
Tell me I didn't just finish a sentence with a preposition.
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I wonder if they problem is not wellies, as Dove suggested, but flip flops? I pretty much live in them during the summer.
Hi all.
Have to disagree pp............. spurtle, for those with a Scottish heritage.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
is that rhyming, or assonance?
Thats horrible clari, I was knocked off the road (in a car) by a drunk hit and run back in the 80s, coming home from work, light straight stretch of road a couple of miles from home. Car overturned 3 times, over a metal fence, luckily I wasnt impailed, and also lucky cars behind saw it happen, the car finnished on its side in a field no-one would have found me, I couldnt get out. they got me out the window, bloke who drove me home said he couldnt be a witness as he had lost his licence!! Police found the car and driver, he deneyed being there, (he was "known" to them, and on a driving ban) Car was on finance, we had to pay for it for 4 months while insurance company sorted it out. Me, I had 2 bruises on my knees which hit the dash, blokes who stopped felt sure I would be dead! The scars were "mental", have been in 3 entrapments, (none of which were me fuilt) I am now the worst passenger on the planet!
Thanks for link to the Guardian.
I now feel like a moron.
"Mr Hartill accuses me of nonsense when I say that octopus is 3rd declension Greek. I was simply using "is" as short for "is derived from".
The reason that it is not spelt "octopous" is that in Latin, "ou" is never a diphthong, so that a Latin word "octopous" would have four syllables. When Greek words are transliterated into Latin, the convention is that upsilon alone is represented by the letter y, while the Greek diphthong omicron upsilon is represented by the single letter u. Matters are complicated by a further convention that the 2nd declension nominative masculine ending omicron sigma is Latinised to "-us".
An example of this is the name of Jesus Christ, which in Latin is "Jesus Christus", with Jesus 4th declension and Christus 2nd declension. The Greek form has the spelling Iota eta sigma omicron upsilon sigma Chi rho iota sigma tau omicron sigma."
I mean??? what the flip?
However, I love this one:
" Pedantry is a rare and beautiful thing these days and the mere sniff of it brings joy to my heart"
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Tee Hee!
The best bit of Latin classes was last day when Mr Kerr (basso profondo) would read us Winnie the Pooh!
We were 11 and deeply ashamed of enjoying being read to.
Tell me I didn't just finish a sentence with a preposition.
pdoc I stand by my original statement.
Obe. Best link ever.. I laughed till I cried.
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I have a spurtle and I hirple . . .
Great link Obs ... I went to sleep smiling last night
Constantinurple? ....................... I'll get my coat
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Joyce you need a longer spurtle to help that hurple.
Bwawahaha!