Lochalsh 
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It's also influenced by American versus British usage...
That's what I meant. AE has it as burned/burnt, depending on the function the word serves. I was asking if there were any such distinction in BE at all. Now I know. :)
Speaking of language differences, what gets me is when an American uses "amongst." AE dictates "among," BE dictates "amongst." I'm afraid some of my fellow Americans are letting a character on Saturday Night Live (the "verklempt" Linda Richman) influence their language choices.
Sorry, I'm off on a tangent, so I'm off. Hugs, Lesley!
Reply #2481. Apr 04 11, 11:54 AM
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daymare
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No, not too hard. It makes one heck of a mess. Smells horrible and it foams as it burns.
It was such a nice pan too. Just the right size.
Reply #2482. Apr 04 11, 11:55 AM
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| lesley153
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I say among too. It sounds odd to me when people say amongst, and whilst. They both strike me as old-fashioned and prissy, even if they aren't.
* pause to look up Linda Richman *
What a wonderful idea! I got shpilkis in my genechtagazoink from I reading about her. Oh - and nothing wrong with tangents.
Daymare, doesn't it go without saying, that it's always the favourite pan, or the favourite anything else, that gets ruined? |
Reply #2483. Apr 04 11, 2:25 PM
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Lochalsh
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Did you watch the vid where Linda goes on stage with that shayna punim, Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand? It's a whole lesson in Yiddish, Brooklyn-style. :)
Reply #2484. Apr 04 11, 3:19 PM
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| lesley153
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| Hang on, sorry, wrong way round. One is a carefully orchestrated of an interruption of the Shayna Punim's concert, and the other is a genuinely unexpected visit to a TV set. |
Reply #2486. Apr 04 11, 4:37 PM
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Lochalsh
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Yes, that concert. By the way, I didn't recognize Madonna in Coffee Talk, at least at first. She does meshugeneh well for a Catholic girl from Detroit. :)
Reply #2487. Apr 04 11, 5:42 PM
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| lesley153
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| She does a pretty good "Feh!" too! |
Reply #2488. Apr 04 11, 6:02 PM
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satguru
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Don't we all!
Reply #2489. Apr 04 11, 6:46 PM
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Lochalsh
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I don't.
Reply #2490. Apr 04 11, 8:21 PM
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Lochalsh
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Didn't mean to sound rude with that comment; it's just that I never use the expression. Perhaps I should? :)
Reply #2491. Apr 04 11, 9:59 PM
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Professer
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Liked the streisand clip need to watch the box set i have ob dvd of her tv specials
Reply #2492. Apr 05 11, 1:49 AM
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| lesley153
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Actually, now you mention it, I don't use it either! Perhaps I should. :) Nor would I say Shayna Punim, but I'm not sure I need that to fill a gap in my vocabulary.
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I was really pleased with myself for waking up at 5.25 yesterday. I should have remembered to turn the alarm off. I really didn't need to be awake at five o'clock this morning!
Jonathan said there were about a million people from his college at the interviews yesterday. At three o'clock yesterday he travelled back to London with a few of them, and then he met his girlfriend after work. He rang me when he got home and said he'd just realised how tired he was.
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Busy couple of days. Some shopping, cooking, cleaning, tidying, laundry today. Tomorrow, I've got someone coming first thing (ouch) to look at the heating, or lack thereof; lunch with a very old friend I've stayed in touch with but haven't seen for two or three years; cardiac exercise class in the afternoon, and then Jonathan's coming home for a couple of days. That'll be nice. Think I'll start with the beds... or the kitchen... |
Reply #2493. Apr 05 11, 5:31 AM
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Professer
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Hope you and Jonathan have a couple of nice days Lesley
Reply #2494. Apr 05 11, 8:42 AM
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romeomikegolf
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"I was really pleased with myself for waking up at 5.25 yesterday."
Lesley, I'm really pleased with myself if I wake AFTER that time.
Reply #2495. Apr 05 11, 8:44 AM
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Lochalsh
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As old as I am (*creak*), I'm pleased that I wake up at all.
Reply #2496. Apr 05 11, 9:22 AM
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Lochalsh
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Oh, and I do use "shayna punim" occasionally--I run with a jocular group, some of whom are Jewish. :)
Reply #2497. Apr 05 11, 9:23 AM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, Gary! Not sure when he's getting here. He's going to see Avenue Q this evening.
Bob, what happens?
L, *creak* to you too!
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Just did a bit of supermarket shopping. Glad to get out.
Customers with trolleys zoom out of aisles at breakneck speed without peeping out to see if the coast is clear, and the first one I hit will undoubtedly bleat self-pity that I hit it, not apologise for not looking where it was going.
Why *is* it easier to apologise for crashing into someone, than it is to look where you're going? (Have I asked that before?) Why don't I just sail round and let other people avoid me for a change? (Because they probably wouldn't.)
Staff who have been born here, and spoken English from birth, still don't seem to be able to understand English As She Is Spoke by customers. So I ask myself: if I had a brain, would I be stock-taking on TescoBury shop floor? and that seems to help.
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I was in Debenhams last week, walking along one of the pathways between displays, when a couple walked out of the display area - a normally tall woman, and a man about seven feet three. He just walked in front of me. The woman told him to look where he was going: I said Thanks: and he said he hadn't seen me. Argh.
Wonder if he'd have seen me if I had a flashing light on my head, or noticed me if I'd stuck a foot out and made him fall over. Another time, perhaps. |
Reply #2498. Apr 05 11, 12:56 PM
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romeomikegolf
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I have really restless nights, and once I'm up, that's it. I keep taking the tablets but they don't always work.
Reply #2499. Apr 05 11, 1:10 PM
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| lesley153
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| That's really annoying. Not sleeping last year did my head in. Any idea why, Bob, or what makes one night worse than another? |
Reply #2500. Apr 05 11, 1:17 PM
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