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Grammar pedants - help please.

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JenL Sep 2016 1:03pm, 12 Sep 2016 27,392 posts	Quote Pin JenL The comedian Rich Hall used to run a column called "sniglets", which consisted of sequences of letters/sounds that were not actual words in English but had the potential to be and explanations of what they might mean. And of course, Lewis Carroll...
JenL Sep 2016 1:07pm, 12 Sep 2016 27,393 posts	Quote Pin JenL And didn't the R4 programme "Word of Mouth" used to have a section in which listeners could choose an existing word to define/redefine? Perhaps it still does. My favourite version was when people used to send in definitions for place names: Kettering was the criss-cross patterning on the back of a person's legs when they'd been sitting in the garden on cane furniture.
mulbs Sep 2016 1:33pm, 12 Sep 2016 12,174 posts	Quote Pin mulbs [as already posted on the pro-cycling thread: Took my teen to the london stage of the TOB on Sunday, he thought the peleton should be called the pedal-on. He's got a point]
Columba Sep 2016 5:33pm, 12 Sep 2016 11,202 posts	Quote Pin Columba LindsD - Ah yes, I have a copy of The Meaning of Liff, - Elder Daughter gave it to me; she knew it was My Kind of Humour. Love the redefinition of Kettering! When Youngest Son was a Little One he thought a cattle grid was a crackle bridge. Going by the sound as we drove over it.
Dvorak Sep 2016 6:15pm, 12 Sep 2016 12,148 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Velominazi. (Just as a word .)
RichHL Sep 2016 9:04pm, 16 Sep 2016 12,150 posts	Quote Pin RichHL Kettering is good. However, those of us of a certain age begin to suffer from Woking.
DeeGee Sep 2016 9:28pm, 16 Sep 2016 17,509 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee As a child, I thought that Kettering was a sort of steel alloy used to manufacture playground equipment.
Dvorak Sep 2016 11:30pm, 16 Sep 2016 12,172 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak DeeGee
Winded Sep 2016 7:28pm, 17 Sep 2016 4,728 posts	Quote Pin Winded As I was cycling along in a sportive today I went past a property with the sign "SEVERALS" I imagine it once belonged to Mr or mrs Several but couldn't help wondering if we have a few groups of several things is that a severals? There is every possibility I've put far too much thought into this.
Columba Sep 2016 8:02pm, 17 Sep 2016 11,260 posts	Quote Pin Columba As "several" isn't a noun, presumably you couldn't make it plural. I think Mr. and Mrs. Several is the better guess.