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Grammar pedants - help please.

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Sep 2016
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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... :-)
Sep 2016
1:07pm, 12 Sep 2016
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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.
Sep 2016
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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]
Sep 2016
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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.
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6:15pm, 12 Sep 2016
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Dvorak
Velominazi.

(Just as a word bike.)
Sep 2016
9:04pm, 16 Sep 2016
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RichHL
Kettering is good. However, those of us of a certain age begin to suffer from Woking.
Sep 2016
9:28pm, 16 Sep 2016
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DeeGee
As a child, I thought that Kettering was a sort of steel alloy used to manufacture playground equipment.

Sep 2016
11:30pm, 16 Sep 2016
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Dvorak
:-) DeeGee
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7:28pm, 17 Sep 2016
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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.
Sep 2016
8:02pm, 17 Sep 2016
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Columba
As "several" isn't a noun, presumably you couldn't make it plural. I think Mr. and Mrs. Several is the better guess.

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