Originally posted by Serial_Apologist
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This is a sticky topic.
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostI think it was the 'held, killed, bailed' with 'bailed' tacked on the end. Plus if she was bailed she wasn't held. Just inelegant rather than incomprehensible. (Shakespeare more elegant and incomprehensible ).It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by Padraig View PostWhat do you make of this BBC News headline?
Omicron to hit NI 'like a tonne of bricks'It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by Padraig View PostOf course. Didn't youse Get Bricks Done?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by Padraig View PostWhat do you make of this BBC News headline?
Omicron to hit NI 'like a tonne of bricks'
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Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Posta metric tonne, i.e. 1,000kg so it's not one of those grating "principle" rather than "principal" errorsIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostI was wondering how certains in NI might view it But only certains …
But, regarding tonne vs ton, my thinking was that since the headline in question was reported speech, the speaker was using a standard idiom, which is 'a ton of bricks'. To report it as 'a tonne of bricks' is therefore (I need a word here) over correct, in other words, wrong.
There might be other aspects to this puzzle
Incertus.
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Originally posted by Padraig View PostYou've got me there, f f.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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"Welsh government loans England 4m more Covid tests"
Not wishing to denigrate the generosity but surely they aren't expecting the tests will be handed back after use?
I'm assuming what is meant is a stock of tests on a kind of sale or return basis to smooth out England's supply problems - although given the shortfall I don't see many of them being unused.
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