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Originally Posted by Bouillabaisse

Are you using the word "fucking" in it's perjorative meaning or as a description of the type of room we should get, as opposed, for example, to a sitting room?

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Time to roll out this old one again as it confuses Septics, boxheads and others of that ilk.

Use Synonyms to rewrite these sentences

but keep exactly the same meaning



1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
Example - The Bandage was wrapped around the injury

2. The farm was used to produce produce.
Example -The farm was used to make product


3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4. We must polish the Polish furniture.

5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10. I did not object to the object.

11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13. They were too close to the door to close it.

14. The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.

20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

Originally Posted by pmaitra

UK English is superior to MAE (Mainstream American English).

Gurning, grunting, and gesturing are superior to MAE.

Originally Posted by CaptainPlume

I got into a massive argument with some fellow on here who swore blind "math" was the acceptable usage in the UK.

The use of stabbing or blunt trauma would've been justified!

Originally Posted by Markintime

Double negative! If you ain't going nowhere you must be going somewhere.

I agree, but then it is spoken English.

People also use these:

• I am going home regardless of the status of the project.
• I am going home irregardless of the status of the project.

English is a funny language.

Originally Posted by Joker62

Think before you type. Chicken is singular, as in "we have one chicken", but more than one chicken becomes chickens as in "we have two chickens", not "we have two chicken".

Every single sentence you have quoted is correct.

I have been told earlier that 'chicken' is plural in case it is food. That is not a good answer. The answer is because it is an uncountable noun or "mass noun."

Please see post #22 and #29.

So either the definition of uncountable noun is correct or the BBC article's title is correct, but both cannot be correct. I could be wrong, but I need to see why, and "because I told you so," is not an acceptable answer. Pardon me.

Originally Posted by Joker62

Now I realise that on your side of the pond, English gets bastardised to suit you lot, but chicken and chickens will remain part of the English language, unless you are referring to the range of chicken meat available in the markets, then it will come from many chickens, but be referred to as chicken in the singular form, capiche?

Now, now, my dear Sir, I am being respectful towards UK English doesn't mean you start massaging your ego. UK English in itself is riddled with errors.

E.g.: fish-plate, yes, you will find it in a dictionary, but I can say with authority, it is wrong. The correct term is fische-plate or fix-plate, not fish-plate. The French word fische means to fix.



US English calls it a joint-bar which is correct. There is always something UK English could borrow from US English.

Now be a good sport, bud!

Originally Posted by pmaitra

I agree, but then it is spoken English.

People also use these:

• I am going home regardless of the status of the project.
• I am going home irregardless of the status of the project.

English is a funny language.

In spoken English, the people I know would more likely have said: "Fuck this for a game of soldiers, I'm off to the pub".

Originally Posted by Bouillabaisse

I disagree. It doesn't matter. The correct useage is with the full stop inside the quotations: "come inside." There's no occasion when the closing quotation mark would be the end of the sentence.

You've just given one.

However the Americans view things differently to the English so that may be a cause of confusion. In English the quoted reference is punctuated as if it were a separate piece so punctuation within the quotes refers to the quote not to the sentence it's contained in.

Bouillabaisse said "I disagree" but I could not concur with his hypothesis.

Bouillabaisse asked "do you agree?" I did not!