Re: That was a close one!

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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"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

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

David - who likes pe>

"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.