You forgot Monday next @B3.... I think that might be regional thing though? Or have I got that wrong.... We often say 'the back of' when referring to time - 'I'll see you at the back of three' for example. Is that just a Scottish thing? It means just after three, but my younger daughter insists that it should mean before three. It's a running joke now.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think it's just a Scottish thing Fairygirl. When we came to live in Scotland 22 years ago I just couldn't understand what it meant. I've always been precise with time and to give an hour leeway drove me mad. The back of three to the Scots means any time between 3 and 4. I soon learned however that they are laid back about such things.
My husband was a bit perturbed yesterday to get an email about the delivery by An Post of his tracked item (his new SIM). "We delivered it at 08.24", the email stated confidently. Our postman always comes around 10am, and laughed as he handed over the item. "This is Ireland!" he said...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
What is getting me is the use of the word apology. I do recognise
that the word is used in multiple ways - the commonest being when the
person who is apologising is in the wrong and accepts they have done
something wrong. They are sorry for their actions (and in that act of
contrition are hopefully saying, the act won't happen again). Another
way the word is used is when the person apologising in no way sees that
they are at fault. They apologise to calm the waters - they apologise
because they feel they have been misjudged and use that apology to try
to draw a line under the other party's feeling of aggrievement - the
'I'm sorry you feel that way'.
I think we need a
new word, as apology is used in two completely different ways - and
saying that Boris 'apologised' is becoming a bit galling (well, for me
it is).
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I think that might be regional thing though? Or have I got that wrong....
We often say 'the back of' when referring to time - 'I'll see you at the back of three' for example. Is that just a Scottish thing?
It means just after three, but my younger daughter insists that it should mean before three. It's a running joke now.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...