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A thought for your Penny
I had an eMAil exchange with her last week, and she said that she had some few thousand words of #96 already done. She mentioned that RL factors were piling up and that she had currently many distractions that were preventing her from sitting down to a long writing session. But she is perhaps not as well as some might be, but not as ill as others.
Wishing you, and all readers, a very happy Christmas.
Diana.
Still here
...just about.
I have about finished SEE #96 and will publish tomorrow or Sunday.
Spent the day at the Renal clinic, they took seven vials of blood! (Why, that's nearly an armful!)
Came home with more pills I didn't expect to and it looks like some more bullets got dodged. I'll put up a blog at the weekend with details.
Penny
The Americans are obviously wrong ...
So I noticed that in your reply, you used "at the weekend", rather than "on the weekend". No criticism, I am just trying to figure out why the barmy colonists changed it is all. :)
Merry Christmas
Gwendolyn
Prepositions ...
... seem to be quite flexible. You can either 'fill in' a form or 'fill out' a form and it's just the same. Penny's phraseology is the usual UK English expression. I've noticed when proofing US English stories that that Transponders tend to use more prepositions than we Britons are inclined to do eg "John heads up the enquiry into preposition use" instead of "John heads the enquiry ..."
... and you are quite right - Americans are always wrong when it comes to English. The clue is in the language's name. *fits tin hat and ducks behind desk* :)
Robi
I am not fond of Americans.
And worse yet, I am one ! I had a woman who was raised in the North of London living with me a few years ago and when she left, I could naught but speake the Queen's English. One of the saddest days of my life when I lost that capability and reverted back to nasty American English. :(
Gwendolyn
Keep in mind that you can
Keep in mind that you can use.
'At the weekend'
'On the weekend'
'Over the weekend'
"When will it be done?" "At the weekend" (Friday/Saturday)
"When will it be done?" "Over the weekend" (by Monday, but no specific day)
"When will it be done?" "On the weekend." (Some weekend day.)
(Actually 'on the weekend' is usually when you muck up the sentence by asking "When will you do it". I rarely hear 'on'. I'm more used to 'at ' or 'over', or even just "this/the weekend")
Now, mind you, I also don't believe that the English use 'pure' English. There's no such thing.
Geordies call theirs English, as do the Cornish, and Scots. Irish speak English as well - but you can't tell me that if you get a Welshman, Irishman, Scotsman, and Englishman together that they can be guaranteed to understand each other.
Australians speak differently from Kiwis, and neither sound like Canadians (no matter WHAT the idiots at my elementary school thought while I was growing up). In fact, those from Vancouver don't sound like those from the Upper Ottawa Valley, which are very different from Newfies, or even New Brunswickers.
Don't get me started on the Quebecois.
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I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.