Is Mary Fisher reely a fishmonger? Well I never! That would be like Frank Butcher being a butcher on Eastenders but he wasn't or maybe like Neil Barker being barking mad and a liar to boot which HE IS.
Is Mary Fisher reely a fishmonger? Well I never! That would be like Frank Butcher being a butcher on Eastenders but he wasn't or maybe like Neil Barker being barking mad and a liar to boot which HE IS.
I will have half of that please cos I sent that in a e-mail to you one day but Neil Barker read it first and pinched my idea.
I never heard of Sunny Slough before in fact the only slough I ever heard of was in a medical book wot I was reading and it mentioned boils and carbuncles and sloughing of tissue. (Don't worry abot the mess, people, Craig Oldfield and Fatty Barker will eat it all up.)
"signalize, -ise v.t. make noteworthy or remarkable, lend distinction or lustre to..." OED Concise version.
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... There's pleasure sure in being mad That none but madmen know... Dryden
"Theobold Watcher" typed
Ooooh look! Someone who was never sad enough to read a Mars Bar wrapper...
...or John Betjeman.
"Mary Fisher" typed
Verbing weirds language, innit?
Hmm. I don't think that's what Guy meant :-)
Mary
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Indeed. He meant signalled, but wrote signalised by mistake - ie he used a completely different - and in this context, wrong - word.
'signalised' may not be the right word, but 'signalled' doesn't mean 'to have signals added' in any dictionary I have access to...
But since we all (well certainly me) knew what he meant, perhaps it wasn't the wrong word - lots of words have dual meanings - eg lead
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"PC Paul" wrote in news:Isq6h.541$k74.264 @text.news.blueyonder.co.uk:
pedant alert...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Hall saying something like:
That old favourite - "burglarized".
I have this strange sense of deja-vu...
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember David Taylor saying something like:
Was it mentioned already? Missing post.
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