From: Adrian on
Tony Raven (junk(a)raven-family.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

> So you don't believe there is such a thing as an American

Poor example, seeing as there's a country called America.

A South American, yes.
From: Adrian on
Ivor Jones (ivor(a)despammed.invalid) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

>> > Gosh. I'm suitably awed. Doesn't stop me disliking your
>> > unnecesary use of *foul* language.

>> So protect your sensibilities, by filtering it out.

> I shouldn't have to.

You shouldn't have to filter out spam.

Anyway, I haven't said "cluck cluck cluck" once. THAT's fowl language.
From: Brimstone on
Paul {Hamilton Rooney} wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:36:38 +0100, "Brimstone"
> <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Paul {Hamilton Rooney} wrote:
>>> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:16:32 +0100, "Brimstone"
>>> <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Paul {Hamilton Rooney} wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:08:44 +0100, "Brimstone"
>>>>> <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Alex Heney" <me8(a)privacy.net> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:5lhce2dfu34qn4ppn7o1frf94sgfl0t2fv(a)4ax.com...
>>>>>>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:50:58 +0100, Tony Raven
>>>>>>> <junk(a)raven-family.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Alex Heney wrote on 18/08/2006 21:40 +0100:
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:58:04 GMT, JAF
>>>>>>>>> <anarchSPAMKILLER(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:07:41 +0100, Paul {Hamilton Rooney}
>>>>>>>>>> <craig(a)oil.com>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It meant a fixed thing or place.
>>>>>>>>>> Post (stick in the ground) and post (mail) have different
>>>>>>>>>> origins.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And "undertake" (to take upon oneself), "undertake" (to carry
>>>>>>>>> out funerals) and "undertake" (to pass on the "wrong" side)
>>>>>>>>> all have different origins.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But only the first two are recognised by the OED.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> True.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But give it time :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How long?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd guess two or three years.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm, I've been hearing it used in the sense of passing another
>>>> vehicle on the nearside for as many decades, how come the OED
>>>> haven't included it yet?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Many decades? I didn't think it was that old.
>>
>> Probably even older.
>>
>>> But it's very common now.
>>
>> No more so than before.
>
> You hear it on the BBC now. There was a time when those anals
> wouldn't even split an infinitive.
>>
>>> If we all email them today, maybe they'll put it in the next
>>> edition!
>>
>> Since it's an inaccurate usage why bother?
>>
>
> Usage is usage. Neither accurate nor inaccurate. That's how language
> works.

Quite pbnviously the OED disagrees otherwise "undertake", in the sense of
passing a vehicle going in the same direction, on it's left side would have
been included by now. I understand that some very much more recent words and
newer uses of words now appear in that renowned tome.


From: Mark McNeill on
Response to Paul {Hamilton Rooney}:
> >ISTR something about them thinking of changing the name because English
> >speakers kept stealing all the road signs...
> >
>
>
> Heh heh! I'll look out for it!


http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp

--
Mark, UK
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different."
From: Paul {Hamilton Rooney} on
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:41:24 +0100, Mark McNeill
<markonnewsgroups(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>Response to Paul {Hamilton Rooney}:
>> >ISTR something about them thinking of changing the name because English
>> >speakers kept stealing all the road signs...
>> >
>>
>>
>> Heh heh! I'll look out for it!
>
>
>http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp


Excellent!

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