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Jono

I am amazed they knew it. I must try your version, I like the lemon twist idea.

Paul

What is it about pizza that requires abbreviating? The "za" seems daft, but it is better than the first-3-letter abbrev for pizza that is sometimes used her. Doesnt sound nice.

Brendan

Lovely cartoon!

Of course, you all know that the leader of the pedants' revolt was Which Tyler....

Nice one Chris:-)

Very good Chris! Funny you should mention cartoons Brendan...

Just seen demonstrating 'A' Level pupil's placard not helping the cause:

Our teachers are qualified to give grades
YOU'R NOT!

Just been to a funeral and the large notice outside the crematorium says
'...and please practice hand-washing...'

To remember s for the verb and c for the noun I apply advice and advise, where you can hear the difference. With practice/practise and licence/license you can't.

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Have these morphed into one now? Is there no longer a distinction between them?
The transitive verb “to reduce” occurs almost universally now as “the numbers have reduced”.

No, they haven’t. They have been reduced.

Yes, tonta, picking up from your transitive/intransitive thread. Absolutely agreed.

My bugbear is lie/lay, which is difficult to explain to people because 'I lie in the grass' and 'I lay in the grass' are both correct in context.
I fear that 'lay' as in 'I am going to lay down over there' (oh yes, what are you going to lay down over there?) is gradually predominating and will eventually become correct through common usage. We may lose the rather beautiful 'lain' (the body had lain there for hours) so often usurped by 'laid'. (French for ugly!)

Paul tonta

if I was a teacher, I would be furious that my grades had been rejected. I suppose they would have been optimistic though.

I see the minister said "If there is injustices...."

Re reduced. We get "the campaign launched..." and "the train derailed" all the time now - utter rubbish.