2017 Fictional Primate Deathmatch
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Feb 2017
11:03am, 22 Feb 2017
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Nicholls595
mass nuns? we're back to Bishop Brennan I see. Has there ever been a sitcom character deathmatch? Father Dougal vs Manuel |
Feb 2017
11:27am, 22 Feb 2017
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GregP
Hold on. Is the Opinionated Polymath advocating use to "Oh For Goodness's Sake" too? #buffoon
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Feb 2017
11:54am, 22 Feb 2017
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GlennR
Do you really want to mess with me *and* Badger? For goodness sake is an idiom, spoken not generally written. If you believe it is in the possessive then yes, it should be goodness's. The difference between it and the previous example is that 'for the sake of completeness' is something that might be written down. If you're going to consist of making it 'for completeness's sake' then that's the way it has to be. However, it's clumsy in the mouth so don't bother. There are no exceptions to the 's rule for singular possessives, apart from some very obscure custom and practice stuff to do with the names of saints and those rare examples of archaic genitive forms that linger in the language, such as its, his and her. |
Feb 2017
11:54am, 22 Feb 2017
25,233 posts
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GlennR
insist on rather than consist of...
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Feb 2017
12:15pm, 22 Feb 2017
90,264 posts
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GregP
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Feb 2017
12:25pm, 22 Feb 2017
28,107 posts
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McGoohan
A watery bint: |
Feb 2017
12:25pm, 22 Feb 2017
25,234 posts
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GlennR
I see they've got you in to write our lunchtime restaurant menu: curry goat's and rice.
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Feb 2017
12:30pm, 22 Feb 2017
8,136 posts
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Badger
Is she in the act of lobbing a scimitar?
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Feb 2017
12:32pm, 22 Feb 2017
90,266 posts
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GregP
They used to be made up the road in Sible Headingham I seem to recall?
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Feb 2017
12:46pm, 22 Feb 2017
25,236 posts
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GlennR
Scimitars? Or the cars of the same name?
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