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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    bédé said:
    "love" has lost it's meaning.
    Yes I agree. I use the word quite a lot in the context of, I love that flower or I love the colour. Does that detract from expressing the word love for a person I wonder?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    bédé said:

    Does anyone count user's number of posts?

    Is there a top 10?

    Does anyone rate them by helpfulness?
    Can't speak for anyone else but I don't though your post made me look how many posts I've made. I've only been here a year so a babe in arms but always had a lot to say for myself. I was a nightmare child. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    BenCotto said:
    The apostrophe is losing its meaning as well.
     :D 

    Indeed @B3. The number of posts someone has is completely irrelevant, and as for rating them. Why on earth would anyone do that?  The quality of advice is the important factor for most rational people. 
    Unfortunately, for some new posters, it can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when we get WUMs, or similar, posting... ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The singular possessive apostrophe shows that 'hi' has been removed. The dog's bowl -  the dog his bowl. Not sure about the plural , though - theirs?  Maybe it's just that the dogs's bowls is too awkward to say🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    The dogs' bowls - multiple bowls belonging to multiple dogs. You wouldn't say "dogses" (unless you're Gollum, maybe) so you don't write the second s after the apostrophe.
    The dogs' bowl - one bowl shared by more than one dog (like the ones you sometimes see outside shops etc).
    The dog's bowls - one for food and one for water?

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    One minute’s time.
    Two minutes’ time

    But where do you fancy putting the apostrophe if it’s one and a half minutes?
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'd sidestep the issue and say in one and a half minutes. 'Time ', in this instance, is tautological.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    One and a half minutes but half a minute, so one and a half minutes' time, half a minute's time.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited November 2022
    But 1½ is plural
    You  usually say one and a half minutes not one and a half minute. If you use a number as an part of an adjective, you use a hyphen as in 4-minute mile.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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