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  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    If I was a rich man (Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum), I wouldn't have a diamond encrusted plunger, but a powered sink plunger comme ca: https://www.amazon.co.uk/InstaPlunge-Electric-Plunger-System-Blockage/dp/B08C2T8D1J - other powered plungers are available). If my mum is reading this, I was googling pluggers - as I have never plunged before in my life and would have no reason to - and this super powered plunger came up by mistake. I blame google. I love a power tool that has multiple uses and anything that has 'Insta' in its name must be a winner in my book. My wife would have found no end of uses for it.

    plungeo
    plungeas
    plungeat
    plungeamus
    plungeatis
    plungeant

    I like plungeant - rolls off the tongue.


    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    A plumber - un plombier = plomb which means lead. (in French)

    To unblock drains - un furet on the end of a long sturdy wire.

       
    https://www.mesdepanneurs.fr/blog/utiliser-furet

    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    steveTu said:
     Surely, plunging should be plungeing? Or else singe becomes singing and that way madness lies (lays?).

    I have always wondered about this, so I looked it up. The gerund exceptions that add an 'e' are those where there would be an ambiguity without. 

    As with dyeing / dying. Singing/ singeing. As far as I know there is only one meaning behind 'plunging'. So we don't need a 'plungeing' to clarify.
    • binging …..… making a bing sound (rare)
    • longeing …… exercising a horse using a longe.
    • springeing ... trapping small game using a snare (rare).
    • swingeing .... beating, striking, smiting.
    • tinging ……... making a ting sound (rare).
    • twinging …... using the Twing search engine (very rare).
    • whinging .… making a whing sound (rare).

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Can you plunge with aplomb?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited January 2022
    Apparently you can; which is rather fun.

    Aplomb comes from from the French, in the sense of ‘perpendicularity':  ‘according to a plumb line’.  A plumb line, coming from a piece of lead on the end of a string. It all comes back to base lead in the end.

  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    That's the problem with English - that rule only works if you know how to pronounce something in the first place. OK for a spelling rule, but not for pronunciation.

    "Plungeing with confidence" by Will Powers was a classic of its time.

    Monty Python and The Holey Sink Plunger
    Silly kniggit - I told 'im we already 'ad one...

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    steveTu said:
    That's the problem with English...
    It's such a mongrel language (wonderfully) that rules are of limited use anyway. The majority is from Germanic origins, with some Latin & Romance influence, some Hindi and bit of Inuit, a bit of Arabic, smoked in sanskrit. Put them in a mixer, bake for a few centuries and sprinkle with neologisms. 

    No, the metaphor doesn't really work, but I do like cake.

    🎂

  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    @Fire - I tried that. It was revolting and blocked my sink.

    Now I need a plunger.  And possibly a plumber.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @didyw you tried unblocking your sink with cake?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Could any experienced plongeurs please apply within?  OH thinks he deserves a holiday … and I’m pretty sure @D0rdogne_Damsel could find use for at least one … local rates of pay apply. 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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