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jayles
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“This is she” vs. “This is her”
- February 25, 2014, 5:38pm
Amen brethren.
In an unguarded unthinking non-PC moment in the supermarket I automatically waved back to a small child instead of turning away PC-wise ... it's just not 1960 anymore. I have also noticed that "bitch" and "slut" have become highly offensive now whilst OMG is just commonplace. And nobody says "crikey" anymore.
all _____ sudden
- February 18, 2014, 5:25pm
@WW etymonline.com suggests :
upon the soden (1550s)
and this does show up as such on google, although I couldn't quite get an exact date earlier than 1591.
all _____ sudden
- February 17, 2014, 9:00pm
I wonder by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we googled? and texted?
all _____ sudden
- February 17, 2014, 6:09pm
@WW Can't remember Dryden but didn't Donne go like:
What did we do till we googled?
For God's sake hold your tongue and let me google...
all _____ sudden
- February 17, 2014, 6:05pm
all _____ sudden
- February 17, 2014, 1:43pm
@WW evidently failed to convert. How about:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/all-of-a-sudden.html
all _____ sudden
- February 15, 2014, 1:59am
MyLord,
"All the sudden" comes up in the London Magazine from 1738 and "all of the sudden" in John Dryden.
Try googling the phrases.
Two Weeks Notice
- February 15, 2014, 1:52am
@WW "saint valentines day" with no apostrophe comes up in Hamlet.
According to Ngram the possessive sans apostrophe has upticked since 1980.
Of course Warner Bros knew their etymology and thus since there remains an 'e' before the 's' there is nothing to elide. Or perhaps it just didn't look good in CAPS. Who knows. It is all just a spelling convention which wasn't really totaly accepted till the 1850's with the coming of compulsory boredom, or education for children.
Two Weeks Notice
- February 14, 2014, 5:18pm
Perhaps leaving off the apostrophe is because some people can't be bothered to find it on the keyboard. (This might also apply to commas.)
Questions
Five eggs is too many | July 1, 2013 |
“The plants were withered” Adjective or passive? | August 27, 2013 |
Which sound “normal” to you? | March 31, 2014 |
“it’s the put-er-on-er-er” | April 7, 2014 |
Semicolon between sentences joined by a coordinating conjunction
Perhaps I could raise the matter of "for" as a conjunction.
"Wow I am glad and happy too; for I was late for this discussion."
Or is "for" as a conjunction now deprecated.