I remember looking at that a long time ago, having grown up using "Gie's a" (Give us a ) as informal speech in Scotland, I was surprised to discover it in common use in the south of England too. It's strictly colloquial but pretty much universal in British English. Gizza break!
In that case you would end up with zero people.
"Stacey enjoys cooking her family and her dog".
Ah, them's fighting words....
I didn't know that.Ah, them's fighting words....
It was pled long before pleaded, and there is a distinction:
One who has entered a "plea" has "pled", one who is seeking reprieve pleads, or, thereafter has pleaded. Thus, "He pleaded with the judge for leniency, but then pled guilty anyway."
I did say I was a stickler.
Yeah, no.Ah, them's fighting words....
It was pled long before pleaded, and there is a distinction:
One who has entered a "plea" has "pled", one who is seeking reprieve pleads, or, thereafter has pleaded. Thus, "He pleaded with the judge for leniency, but then pled guilty anyway."
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It's a bit silly, innit?I remember looking at that a long time ago, having grown up using "Gie's a" (Give us a ) as informal speech in Scotland, I was surprised to discover it in common use in the south of England too. It's strictly colloquial but pretty much universal in British English. Gizza break!
"Let's eat, grandma" vs "let's eat grandma".
Reminds me of the guy knocking on the Pearly Gates and when challenged to identify himself says "It is I".
at least said "deaded".
Dey's not like we am.
You would be "kempt".
You are dapper, spiffy, well-groomed, and every girl crazy about a sharp dressed man.
I wonder how they'd take it if I claimed to be kempt.
Many legal words are. I love things like "last will and testament" and "accord and satisfaction" because they are redundancies. It goes back to the Norman conquest in 1066. The Norman and Saxon legal systems were combined, but lawyers had to use the terms the locals understood. Latin and French-derived terms are abundant in the law.Yeah, no.
Pleaded vs. Pled
Plead belongs to the same class of verbs as bleed, lead, and feed, and like them it has a past and past participle with a short vowel spelled pled (or sometimes plead, which is pronounced alike). From the beginning, pled has faced competition from the regular form pleaded, which eventually came to predominate in mainstream British English. Pled was and is used in Scottish English, which is likely how it came to American English. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pled was attacked by many American usage commentators (perhaps because it was not in good British use). Though still sometimes criticized, it is fully respectable today and both pled (or plead) and pleaded are in good use in the U.S. In legal use (such as “pleaded guilty,” “pled guilty”), both forms are standard, though pleaded is used with greater frequency. In nonlegal use (such as “pleaded for help”), pleaded appears more commonly, though pled is also considered standard.
Definition of DICTIONARY
a reference source in print or electronic form containing words usually alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, etymologies, meanings, and syntactic and idiomatic uses… See the full definition
Well, it's a stupid word.
In the Milwaukee airport they have a "recombobulation" zone. They made the word up for those passengers who were discombobulated going through security. I LOVE it.
Yah, so Mrs. SW tells me. But there are many words that convey sadness; tragedy was unique (TMK). With tragedy swept into the morass of merely sad, How is one to communicate the cosmic wretchedness - the catharsis & pity among the audience - that tragedy used to indicate & provoke?
A form of Zeno's Archilles Paradox?
Excellent! Thanks, I'll track down the Dictionary.
