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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2020 12:17:13 GMT
And still likely to do well, above more common names. Bit like those with a Norman name, tend to be better off, our land and wealth that was redistributed to them seems to have stuck over the years. 'Our'? Jesus you know how to hold a grudge!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2020 12:28:49 GMT
If you read between the lines he seems to have a grudge specifically against Telemachus
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Post by Jim on Oct 17, 2020 12:30:29 GMT
And still likely to do well, above more common names. Bit like those with a Norman name, tend to be better off, our land and wealth that was redistributed to them seems to have stuck over the years. 'Our'? Jesus you know how to hold a grudge! I know, anyway it was many years before then that it was "ours", some violent saxon twat having nicked it of a roman who stole it from a druid, who was an evil violent twat who stole it from us. As for my original proposition, who is probably the wealthiest boater over the water at CWDF, think Norman name. Nowt to do with dead Greeks either. Though they could be a big head and shoulders over the competition. 😉
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Post by Clinton Cool on Oct 17, 2020 12:30:48 GMT
And still likely to do well, above more common names. Bit like those with a Norman name, tend to be better off, our land and wealth that was redistributed to them seems to have stuck over the years. So Norman's tend to be better off than Peter's? I didn't know that.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2020 12:44:11 GMT
And still likely to do well, above more common names. Bit like those with a Norman name, tend to be better off, our land and wealth that was redistributed to them seems to have stuck over the years. So Norman's tend to be better off than Peter's? I didn't know that.
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 17, 2020 13:31:32 GMT
Anyone associated with the Plantagenets should be kicked in the nuts. I see the French are hassling English fishermens again - time to get the Gatling guns out. Back to woad and turnips!
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Post by Jim on Oct 17, 2020 15:09:35 GMT
So Norman's tend to be better off than Peter's? I didn't know that. Perhap's 'he was a G'rocer once?
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 17, 2020 19:12:43 GMT
Perhap's 'he was a G'rocer once? Fun With Apostrophees
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Post by bodger on Oct 17, 2020 20:58:06 GMT
Majid Khan, famous cricketer back in the day. As a matter of interest, are all Pakistanis called Khan? (would assist with benefit fraud, if they were) And what's that Arabic for, God perhaps? in some communities most or all men are called Mohammed Khan, and are only distinguishable by their middle names.
and you know very well that God = Allah.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 17, 2020 22:15:36 GMT
Mr Khan and Mr Jones live next door to each other in identical houses. Their houses are valued by an estate agent, Mr Khan's is valued at £200,000 and Mr Jones' is valued at £150,000. Mr Jones asks the estate agent "How this can be?" The estate agent replies "Simple. Mr Khan doesn't live next door to a Paki".
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Post by Jim on Oct 18, 2020 14:29:20 GMT
Perhap's 'he was a G'rocer once?  Fun With Apostrophees  Sorry, I had the one you were going to use.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 18, 2020 19:32:24 GMT
So Norman's tend to be better off than Peter's? I didn't know that. In fact, there a a couple of errors in the above, since an apostrophe can also be used to signify omitted letters. As in "one o' clock". So "MOT's at this garage" is grammatically correct as it is a contraction of "Ministry of Transport certificates at this garage". "New CD's just in" is also grammatically correct since this is a contraction of "New compact discs just in". Although it looks clumsy, the sentence "I took the photo's of the loco's to the disco's" is also correct according to the rules of English grammar for the same reason. "Jones's Bakery" could also be spelled as "Jones' Bakery" due to the rules which apply to possessives involving surnames which end with the letter "S".
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Post by naughtyfox on Oct 18, 2020 20:21:36 GMT
Tony Dunkley often writes photo's but I haven't said anything 'cos I guessed the apostrophe denotes the missing 'graph' bit.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 8:34:49 GMT
In fact, there a a couple of errors in the above, since an apostrophe can also be used to signify omitted letters. As in "one o' clock". So "MOT's at this garage" is grammatically correct as it is a contraction of "Ministry of Transport certificates at this garage". This is not a contraction but rather an abbreviation of a proper noun and should more properly read M.O.Ts. The M.O.T certificates do not belong to the garage. "New CD's just in" is also grammatically correct since this is a contraction of "New compact discs just in". Same. Although it looks clumsy, the sentence "I took the photo's of the loco's to the disco's" is also correct according to the rules of English grammar for the same reason. Clumsy and incorrect. The apostrophe indicates the possessive. Nothing belongs to any of your examples.
"Jones's Bakery" could also be spelled as "Jones' Bakery" due to the rules which apply to possessives involving surnames which end with the letter "S". It is explained that the former is used when there is more than one Jones.
"In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions..."
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 19, 2020 10:07:34 GMT
In fact, there a a couple of errors in the above, since an apostrophe can also be used to signify omitted letters. As in "one o' clock". So "MOT's at this garage" is grammatically correct as it is a contraction of "Ministry of Transport certificates at this garage". This is not a contraction but rather an abbreviation of a proper noun and should more properly read M.O.Ts. The M.O.T certificates do not belong to the garage. "New CD's just in" is also grammatically correct since this is a contraction of "New compact discs just in". Same. Although it looks clumsy, the sentence "I took the photo's of the loco's to the disco's" is also correct according to the rules of English grammar for the same reason. Clumsy and incorrect. The apostrophe indicates the possessive. Nothing belongs to any of your examples.
"Jones's Bakery" could also be spelled as "Jones' Bakery" due to the rules which apply to possessives involving surnames which end with the letter "S". It is explained that the former is used when there is more than one Jones.
"In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions..."An apostrophe can also indicate places where letters have been removed from a word. Or are you saying "fo'c'sle" isn't a word?
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