OT: We missed you..

[Martin Brown]

No they sent an email.

[Bob Eager]

Funnily enough, I had an email from DPD yesterday alertinbg me to a delivery today, telling me (as usual) that I'd be emailed the time of the delivery slot this morning. I wasn't, but about half an hour after the usual time that arrives, I received an email saying that the parcel wasn't yet in their hands, and giving me a tracking link.

[fred]

A recent tv programme on the delivery company that went bust last Christmas indicated the drivers get paid an abysmal amount per drop.

We live in a country area so get everything delivered to the business address in the city. Open 9.00 to 17-00, Mon to Fri, through lunch hour Makes it much easier for them so the service is better

[soup]

Strictly speaking accuracy can't apply to a "prediction"

S'not more accuracy you want it is more precision.

;O)

[soup]

About a fifth of English verbs were nouns . E.G. to showcase, to input, to access, to host, to chair, to contact etc.

[The Natural Philosopher]

AMERICAN

verbs were nouns .

This is Americanisms.

Here burglars(n) burgle(v) houses.

In America burglars(n burglarize(v) houses.

to showcase, to input, to access, to host, to chair, to contact - all American management Spik.

WE display, put in, gain access to, act as hosts for, act as chairman of, make contact with.

[soup]

Don't you mean ' these are ', getting this wrong shows how much you 'know' about the English language

We.... Who is this "we", by the way, are you perhaps speaking on behalf of a group ?

Host dinner parties,

chairMAN ~sexist,

contact me/him/her,

BRITISH gas using Americanisms dearie-me.

oh I can't be bothered.

[soup]

Erm Davey you have used a verbed noun yourself "re-scheduling".

Schedule was a noun (middle english) now it is used as a verb (19th Cent.) or a noun. Disagreeing with yourself in less than six posts surely some sort of record.

[Davey]

Not at all. To schedule something is a perfectly good use of English.

[soup]

Now yes but in the early 19th Cent. There would have been people going about saying "schedule is a noun it shouldn't be verbed". The English language is continually evolving. Otherwise we'd all be 'talking' like Chauser, $eity all that was good for was wet Thursday afternoons at school.

[The Natural Philosopher]

???

[soup]

Sorry, mea culpa:- That is meant to be ChauCer, (typo/brainfart).

...and $eity(Deity) is my way of writing god (it is supposed to include any deity of any religion, so Christians, Muslims, poly deity faiths , followers of the Norse gods etc etc do not feel offended ).