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You are Donald Trump and I
You are Donald Trump and I claim my $10
Think someone at the BBC needs a maths refresher:
They’ve been told to by ‘an
They’ve been told to by ‘an expert’. Said ‘expert’ turns out to be, er, “John Kushnick, National Accident Helpline’s Legal Director”. Hmm.
Are they particularly hairy?
Are they particularly hairy?
More accurately, he says he
More accurately, he says he still hasn’t ‘had confirmation’ it’s now sorted. Has he remembered to tell them about his change of address yet? Maybe they sent him a letter…
That sounds really useful. I’ve often wondered what I should use when taking my squirrels out – do you have any suggestions on how to waterproof squirrels so that they don’t get wet in the rain?
PCSO should have responded
PCSO should have responded “Really? Exactly how many times have you parked here?” And then issued him that many tickets.
I don’t know what plane it is
I don’t know what plane it is, but I would have thought that’s more likely a landing gear bay that they’ve forgotten to close, seeing as they don’t appear to have any anywhere else. Although given the rather peculiar looking propeller design I’m surprised they managed to fly at all.
so anyway, has anyone waxed their chain lately?Absolutely, but you’re surely not claiming that as an American import?
[Oh, wait – did you say ‘chain’…?]
It probably does count as a
It probably does count as a loanword from American English, having been mostly lost in British English*, but that’s not the same thing as an Americanism, which implies coinage in America.
[* Formal British English, anyway – how much it remained in colloquial/dialectical English and how much that contributed to readoption is another question again.]
That doesn’t make it an
That doesn’t make it an americanism. It came from here originally.
And even if they have got(ten) it from how people talk in America, so what? This is how language works. If you got rid of everything imported into (British) English from other languages, well there wouldn’t be much left.
I meant the ‘gotten‘ah, another Americanism creeping in to UK English
Except, like a lot of these things, it isn’t an americanism. It’s been around since Middle English. It would be more accurate to describe the use of ‘got’ in dynamic situations as a ‘britishism’.
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Even if you’d been riding
Even if you’d been riding right over in the gutter, and even if they could have done so without breaking the speed limit, I can’t see where in that clip they think anyone would have been able to safely overtake you anyway, given oncoming traffic, parked cars, bend in the road, junctions, etc…
In fairness, it’s hard to see
In fairness, it’s hard to see where the lines are when there’s all those cars in the way…