Years of weight
This is so amazingly trivial that it could only be posted here.I am SO FED UP with the phrase 'years of age'. I've been fed up for years, but since it is almost exclusively the preserve of sports...
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Yeah, the ABC is still doing it "at this moment in time". I shall complain to Audience and Consumer Affairs "right now" "on the SMS".
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Being sensitized to redundancies and assorted overlaps is no blessing. I react every time I see "count the number of"--and I see it too often. You don't count the number of marbles. You count the...
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42 could be a jacket size. It could be the waist size (although not for an Olympic athlete). There is a saying in New York about a certain class of stylish men: "He's a 42 long." It's the jacket size....
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I can't stand it when someone says an item is "for sell" instead of "for sale".
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Irregardless, we should join together in mutual respect for one another to totally eliminate words that are not absolutely essential.
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Absolutely, sesquipedalian loquaciousness should not be countenanced.Indeed a predilection by the media to engage in the manifestation of prolix exposition through an obfuscatingly verbose form of...
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llilly wrote: I can't stand it when someone says an item is "for sell" instead of "for sale".I saw an ad the other day in which the guy declared, "Everything in stock is for sale!" I almost rushed...
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jurate wrote:Irregardless, we should join together in mutual respect for one another to totally eliminate words that are not absolutely essential. But that would pretty much eliminate this entire forum.
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I am reading this at 12:51 a.m. - in the morning.I guess that means it's past 11:59 p.m. - at night.
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I hate to hear and see "free gift." "Do you have a free gift with a purchase today?" "Buy today and we will give you a free gift." If it is a gift, it is free.
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Then there's the classic Aussies "ATM machine" and "PIN number" (posting on the TSMB board). I have mixed feelings about "hole in the wall" for ATM though. Verbose, but very descriptive.
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First and foremost, the story is told of an armed gunman, tall in stature, who upon a sudden impulse, walked into a bank, removed his artificial prosthesis and recited the autobiography of his life –...
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Rob, how long does it take you to dream up these mini masterpieces? ...and does the cow help?
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It took about three or four minutes. I am in the zone. I am a great fan of The World's First Hyperacusic Cow, but I think you're referring to the one on the board. RTM
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jchinnis wrote: All the weather forecasts use the phrase, "during the overnight."Not here. Well, not the channels I watch - but even the more cerebral weather forecasts mix up their tenses. Every...
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