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From: Alex Heney on 19 Aug 2006 21:35 On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:52:16 +0100, "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >"Ivor Jones" <ivor(a)despammed.invalid> wrote in message >news:4kp14fFd9k96U1(a)individual.net... >> "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:cK6dnTgzcauTs3rZRVnygg(a)bt.com >>> Ivor Jones wrote: >>> > "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>> > news:CeWdnSWvU9LHI3vZRVnyuQ(a)bt.com >>> > >>> > [snip] >>> > >>> > > So you're an immigrant? >>> > >>> > No, my father was..! I was born in Essex. >>> >>> You're still an immigrant in that you're not English. >> >> Now you're really talking cobblers. How can I not be English if I was born >> in England..? > >Because of your parentage. > By that argument, there is (and can be) nobody who is English. -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler. To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom
From: Alex Heney on 19 Aug 2006 21:38 On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:27:40 +0100, "Ivor Jones" <ivor(a)despammed.invalid> wrote: >"Tony Raven" <junk(a)raven-family.com> wrote in message >news:4kpae9FdacebU2(a)individual.net >> Ivor Jones wrote on 19/08/2006 21:09 +0100: >> > >> > I am not a European. >> > >> >> Are, are, are! ;-) > >Yawn. > >> Anyway, what do you have against being European? > >Nothing, because I can't be what I'm not. > I think I should apologise for my remark earlier. to say you come across like a gibbering idiot on this subject is extremely insulting to gibbering idiots. -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Never eat yellow snow! To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom
From: Alex Heney on 19 Aug 2006 21:50 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? > The OED require print evidence of it having been used with that meaning. Didn't you watch "Balderdash and Piffle" on BBC2 recently? -- Alex Heney, Global Villager If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom
From: Alex Heney on 19 Aug 2006 21:52 On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:23:18 +0100, "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >David Taylor wrote: >> On 2006-08-19, Brimstone <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> Paul {Hamilton Rooney} wrote: >>> >>>> If we all email them today, maybe they'll put it in the next >>>> edition! >>> >>> Since it's an inaccurate usage why bother? >> >> There is so much wrong with that sentence, I don't entirely know >> where to start. >> >> The English language is described BY it's usage. The dictionaries are >> merely there to document that usage. That English changes over time >> is rather obvious -- look at Shakespeare's plays. > >Quite true but, as I've said elsewhere, the word in question has been in >widespread use for several decades and the OED hasn't seen fit to include it >whereas they have with other more recent words and uses. > So they have missed it. I am quite sure that if somebody presented them with evidence that it was a recognised meaning of the word, they would include it. -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Confucius say: Those who quote me are fools. To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom
From: mattic on 20 Aug 2006 01:07
"Ivor Jones" <ivor(a)despammed.invalid> wrote in message news:4kpds1Fc8aufU1(a)individual.net... > On the page with my photo on it says British Citizen. That's amazing! Coz I'd've put big money on it saying, "Cockhead" |