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Old May 14th 2013, 8:18 am
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Bitching about split infinitives is a sure fire way to demonstrate you're a hateful pedant trying to look clever, and actually looking like a wanker.
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Originally Posted by The Dean
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10 quick and easy questions about grammar for you:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22512744


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10 quick and easy questions about grammar for you:

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10 quick and easy questions about grammar for you:

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Promising Pedant, just!
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According to a letter in today's FT, that well-known Old Etonian (where the education is rumoured to be quite good) Rupert Lendrum once told an interviewer:

"Him and I speak a language which nobody else understands"
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According to a letter in today's FT, that well-known Old Etonian (where the education is rumoured to be quite good) Rupert Lendrum once told an interviewer:

"Him and I speak a language which nobody else understands"
Just goes to show you can educate people beyond their ability.
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Just goes to show you can educate people beyond their ability.
See Cameron and Osborne, for instance. You cannot educate Pork...
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3/10 Colon confusenik.

Meow, I need some lessons like pet.
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3/10 Colon confusenik.

Meow, I need some lessons like pet.
You'll have to learn to speak English first...
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Originally Posted by Meow
You'll have to learn to speak English first...
My hairdresser is Scottish and given that I've spent a bit of time up there (Papa Scamp is a sweaty) you'd think I could work most of it out..... but I'm utterly lost and in desperate need of subtitles every time he speaks.
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Originally Posted by Scamp
My hairdresser is Scottish and given that I've spent a bit of time up there (Papa Scamp is a sweaty) you'd think I could work most of it out..... but I'm utterly lost and in desperate need of subtitles every time he speaks.
I married one ....
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I married one ....
Hang on. My Dad married a Geordie......are you my step mum?
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Hang on. My Dad married a Geordie......are you my step mum?
you sussed me I remember the first time I met my Father in-law I couldn't understand a word he said! Husband has a slight softer Glaswegian accent due to the time he spent away from the UK
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