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These were 1 litre plastic bottles.

Good point! Actually he was the volunteer bar manager at the tennis club I used to belong to.

My father used to top up some of his photography chemicals with glass marbles in order to keep the air out. An acquaintance of mine used to squeeze the air out of plastic tonic water bottles, believing that it would stop the contents going flat, I doubted the effectiveness this tactic, believing...

That's it, then. I'm going use it exclusively from now.

To be honest, I find it all vaguely xenophobic, as I get older and more tolerant. They're just words... I expect I'll be accused of using Greekisms now...

Warning to all language chauvinists, don't watch "Ted Lasso". In fact you'll probably have to stop watching anything before too long!

Hmmm. Sprout has been substituted here for the name of a king who allegedly tried to turn back the tide. I wonder what other anagrams of rude words are subject to the blue pencil?

I think it's impossible to stem the tide of change in language, and attempting to do so could make you look like a Cnut. Although, as I understand things, he was simply trying to demonstrate to his courtiers that there were things beyond his control.

I agree that's it's probably predictive text, but as a result of "definate" being typed.

I have an American wife and three stepdaughters, so I'm bilingual by necessity, but I have to admit that I still wince at "different than", and have given up trying to explain the difference between"bring" and "take", on which point, I have noticed that the bring/take thing seems to occur in...

"It may have been old usage here, but it isn't now." Strange attitude, so it's allowable for to change once/one way, but that's it, for ever?

Just reread this while looking for some other info, and realised that Jacob suggested BSP in a slightly earlier thread , which I roundly dismissed as very unlikely. Sorry.

How dare you! I happen to be a blonde!

More AS than AI. IMO.

I am complimented by the middle aged description, not so much by the gammon. Weird, the forum filters allowed your plural pig meat term, but altered my singular. All fairly pointless, as you can post screenshots bristling with offensive terms.

Thanks. Oh well, I guess I'll just put it in a drawer, just in case a find some use for it someday...

Right I wanted to sharpen turning tools. Seems wrong to call it CBN if they're not, but that's the world we live in these days... Just wish I'd bought from Amazon, rather than AliExpress, as I'd be able to return it! Live and learn!

I see, are they useless, then?

Congratulations! You could have a full time job correcting people who write loose instead of lose! It's an epidemic...

I had a piece I was hoping to make a cribbage board out of, but the cracks spread so far that there wasn't enough good timber. I eventually made a small bandsaws reindeer out of it. Now I just need to find a nice piece of ivy to complete the pair.