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    #31
    ah, but then we wd have to pronounce "victuals" as "victuals" rather than "vittles"...

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      #32
      Originally posted by Keraulophone View Post
      the ugly use of the word "like" - FF

      The Headmaster of my children's school imposes a fine of 50p on any pupil thoughtless enough to utter a redundant "like" in any of his lessons.
      That's possibly the most ingenious solution yet for making up for cuts in education funding. However, I wonder if the Head has thought through the implications of this policy on those pupils from more deprived backgrounds?

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        #33
        Mysticism: usually misty, and generally schism [so you have to say it right, or there isn't a joke - but schismatics have a hard c as well as a hard time.]

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          #34
          Q Who led the pedant's revolt?

          A Which Tyler.

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            #35
            Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
            Q Who led the pedant's revolt?

            A Which Tyler.
            Never heard it before! Love it!
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              #36
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Never heard it before! Love it!
              I thank you.

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                #37
                It's been a while since we had an entry on this thread. This week's "Total Immersion" seems as good a place as any to pick up where we left off.

                Tom Service describing Brian Newbould as the "Schubert Completist".

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by Panjandrum View Post
                  It's been a while since we had an entry on this thread. This week's "Total Immersion" seems as good a place as any to pick up where we left off.

                  Tom Service describing Brian Newbould as the "Schubert Completist".
                  I understand "completist" to refer to the kind of person who wishes to have everything complete, rather than the person doing the completion.

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                    I understand "completist" to refer to the kind of person who wishes to have everything complete, rather than the person doing the completion.
                    I'd forgotten how much I love this thread!!
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      I'd forgotten how much I love this thread!!


                      Blue cloudless skies, visibility today over London clear as a bell. That's completion!

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                        #41
                        Our national anthem is normally incorrectly punctuated:-

                        God save our gracious queen.

                        The word "God", being in the vocative case, should have a comma after it.

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                          #42
                          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                          Our national anthem is normally incorrectly punctuated:-

                          God save our gracious queen.

                          The word "God", being in the vocative case, should have a comma after it.
                          Not sure about that. The mood is surely subjunctive, not imperative.

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                            #43
                            Originally posted by rauschwerk View Post
                            Not sure about that. The mood is surely subjunctive, not imperative.

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                              #44
                              Originally posted by rauschwerk View Post
                              Not sure about that. The mood is surely subjunctive, not imperative.
                              Very good (though it clearly isn't a subjunctively constructed sentence). However, the case is still vocative.

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                                #45
                                Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                                Very good (though it clearly isn't a subjunctively constructed sentence). However, the case is still vocative.
                                It's a very moot point. I would have thought it's subjunctive, with "let" or "may" understood, in which case "God" would be nominative, not vocative.

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