ah, but then we wd have to pronounce "victuals" as "victuals" rather than "vittles"...
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That's possibly the most ingenious solution yet for making up for cuts in education funding. However, I wonder if the Head has thought through the implications of this policy on those pupils from more deprived backgrounds?Originally posted by Keraulophone View PostComment
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Mysticism: usually misty, and generally schism [so you have to say it right, or there isn't a joke - but schismatics have a hard c as well as a hard time.]Comment
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Q Who led the pedant's revolt?
A Which Tyler.Comment
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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It's been a while since we had an entry on this thread. This week's "Total Immersion" seems as good a place as any to pick up where we left off.
Tom Service describing Brian Newbould as the "Schubert Completist".Comment
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I understand "completist" to refer to the kind of person who wishes to have everything complete, rather than the person doing the completion.Originally posted by Panjandrum View PostComment
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I'd forgotten how much I love this thread!!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI'd forgotten how much I love this thread!!
Blue cloudless skies, visibility today over London clear as a bell. That's completion!
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Our national anthem is normally incorrectly punctuated:-
God save our gracious queen.
The word "God", being in the vocative case, should have a comma after it.Comment
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Not sure about that. The mood is surely subjunctive, not imperative.Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostComment
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Very goodOriginally posted by rauschwerk View Post (though it clearly isn't a subjunctively constructed sentence). However, the case is still vocative.
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It's a very moot point. I would have thought it's subjunctive, with "let" or "may" understood, in which case "God" would be nominative, not vocative.Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostVery good (though it clearly isn't a subjunctively constructed sentence). However, the case is still vocative.Comment
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