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tyke51

25th February 2019, 14:30
The process of `verbing` (itself a horrible expression) continues apace.

My morning newspaper informs me that mountaineers Sir Chris Bonington and Doug Scott were `... the first people to summit the Baintha Brakk mountain (aka the Ogre) in the Karakoram region.`

It seems summit is now the opposite of plummet!
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jigjag

25th February 2019, 17:34
Malone

Honor loved your term "Mishon Unaccomplished". She told me she is often called "Mishon Impossible"
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malone

25th February 2019, 18:15
Steve, I'm glad you got to use 'on the blink' in the totally right sense.

Tyke, there's 'summat' wrong with 'summit' as a verb!

Jigjag, if there's an outbreak of greengrocers' apostrophes at any point, we can send your friend out on a Mercy Mishon.
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rad

25th February 2019, 20:04
A sixth-form pupil once said, “I enjoyed that homework you set yesterday. I literally went to town on it.” I was glad he had enjoyed it but mentally regretted his misuse of “literally”. He went on to say “I went to the Central Library where I was free of distractions.” Collapse of elderly party.
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tyke51

25th February 2019, 22:11
Thanks for sharing Rad ... a case of being`hoist with your own petard` perhaps? (although hopefully not literally!) At least you have the satisfaction of knowing that the pupil actually understood the meaning of literally!
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jigjag

26th February 2019, 17:41
Pedants are respectfully reminded that this thread does not provide a share-tipping service. A reader says that he bought shares in Sainsbury’s some time ago following our “recommendation” and sold them last week after we advised “avoid Sainsbury’s”. He made a substantial profit before the price collapsed after the merger with Asda was blocked.

Please note that our “recommendation” was in the context of visiting the store to check on apostrophes, and later we suggested “avoiding” the store until they sort out their multiple branding using 4 variations. It is a co-incidence that we used share-tipping terminology.

The reader asks if he should re-enter the market. We advise entering indoor and outdoor markets but not stock markets.
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tyke51

26th February 2019, 19:23
Justine Greening today in Parliament referring to `gridlock`...

I do not believe that it is going to change and we can keep on going round in circles, with all the damage that that does to businesses and jobs, or we can confront it,decision it and find a route forward for Britain.

Decision it - sheer poetry!
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malone

27th February 2019, 06:38
Tyke51, I had to lie down in a darkened room after reading your post - the 'decision' as a verb gave me a real shudder.

Jigjag, thanks for looking out for the interests of Forum users. Your stock has gone up in my eyes, after your shared that information with us. As a pedant, I never like speculating anyway, certainty is more my thing!
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hannah

27th February 2019, 07:51
"One Alaska man who solicited Andes Safari Peru’s services accrued some 5,000 mounted birds—many of which he had taxidermied himself."

A true pedant could dine out, metaphorically of course, for some time, on this sentence quoted from a news report
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tyke51

27th February 2019, 12:54
Nice one Hannah - I hope the Alaska man gets taxidermied along with the reporter!
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