bungeejumper wrote:An excellent scene on the scaffold, sir. All agreed that the condemned man was well hung.
BJ
Ah! Is that why we use hanged for a person being thus executed?
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bungeejumper wrote:An excellent scene on the scaffold, sir. All agreed that the condemned man was well hung.
BJ
Lootman wrote:For instance in my time working in the US I don't think I ever had anyone try and pull me up with: "Actually old bean, the pluperfect tense of that verb is . . .".
servodude wrote:bungeejumper wrote:An excellent scene on the scaffold, sir. All agreed that the condemned man was well hung.
Ah! Is that why we use hanged for a person being thus executed?
AleisterCrowley wrote:bungeejumper having written
Needs a comma in there somewhere
Not sure where. Right at the front, so people spot it?
AleisterCrowley wrote:Bungeejumper, having written x, did y
tjh290633 wrote:AleisterCrowley wrote:bungeejumper having written
Needs a comma in there somewhere
Not sure where. Right at the front, so people spot it?
I don't know. "Caesar having entered the forum, Brutus stabbed him".
An extra comma doesn't make sense.
"Caesar, having entered the room, took off his cloak" does need a comma, because Caesar is the subject of the following clause.
Lootman wrote:Guilty of that myself as I am rather fond of a priori, a posteriori and a fortiori.
Midsmartin wrote:I follow the less/fewer rule. But if you investigate, it's been a fuzzy rule at best, widely ignored, and perhaps one that was only invented in 1770:
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010 ... fewer.html
"... people happily used “less” to mean “fewer” for some 900 years before anybody minded."
A: We observe the distinction too, but we may be in the minority.
We’ve written before on our blog about the decline of “fewer,” a word that seems to be occurring fewer and fewer times.
XFool wrote:We’ve written before on our blog about the decline of “fewer,” a word that seems to be occurring fewer and fewer times.
Or, "...less and less often."?
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