@rowlandscastle444 I could send you a threepenny bit like I used to get, the going rate now is 10.00 I think.
Thank you @Lyn I think I already have some of those. Would certainly help towards the cost of upgrading my denture. Maybe I should go in the loft and look them out!! The coins that is, not the denture!! I used to get sixpence for my teeth. That's inflation for you!! And probably dates me.
Sometimes it helps to know the etymology - fuchsia after Leonard Fuchs, bonariensis from Bonaria/Buenos Aires .. but erysimum, I had no idea and had to look it up, it’s from the Greek for ‘to lift up’ as apparently it can raise blisters.
But not/knot and no/know … that’s primary school stuff.
On pronunciation, is the ch in calibrachoa soft like church or hard like chaos?
As they’re in full flower right now I have read many online comments about forget me nots. What baffles me is the frequency of the spelling forget me knots. Is there not even a moment’s consideration that the name is an exhortation not to forget someone? And, having seen the correct spelling, do the folk who write it incorrectly not think ‘Well, one of us is wrong’?
Similarly I often see ‘know’ written as ‘no’. Is this text speak like ur for your or is it just a very elementary spelling error?
The ability to spell seems to be disappearing fast. If a spelling checker doesn't pick the word up, many don't seem to have a clue. 'Boarders' instead of 'borders' seems to be a favourite too.
Someone on the internet once wrote 'Bone apple teeth' instead of 'Bon appetit' and it became the catchphrase for illiteracy. A huge proportion of adults have very poor literacy though. I don't think it's a modern thing but it's more visible now that people have to type rather than talk. You'd hope that tools like Grammarly would act as learning aids though and spelling would start to improve.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I think I already have some of those. Would certainly help towards the cost of upgrading my denture. Maybe I should go in the loft and look them out!! The coins that is, not the denture!!
I used to get sixpence for my teeth. That's inflation for you!! And probably dates me.
But not/knot and no/know … that’s primary school stuff.
On pronunciation, is the ch in calibrachoa soft like church or hard like chaos?
The ability to spell seems to be disappearing fast. If a spelling checker doesn't pick the word up, many don't seem to have a clue. 'Boarders' instead of 'borders' seems to be a favourite too.
Maybe that's how the sound originated, not from moths but from midges.