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Grammar pedants - help please.

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larkim Oct 2024 1:09pm, 3 Oct 2024 25,741 posts	Quote Pin larkim I guess I could go mad and create one:- A beautiful, expensive, enormous, long stemmed, square, old, red, black and gold, Australian, Aboriginal, wood and stone, hunting and fishing device.
LindsD Oct 2024 1:13pm, 3 Oct 2024 70,114 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Nice
Heinzster Oct 2024 3:16pm, 3 Oct 2024 2,393 posts	Quote Pin Heinzster If that's a boomerang then it may come back and bite you, @larkim
larkim Oct 2024 3:53pm, 3 Oct 2024 25,742 posts	Quote Pin larkim Heinzster wrote:If that's a boomerang then it may come back and bite you, @larkim Ah, but that would be a returning,</>beautiful, expensive, enormous, long stemmed, square, old, red, black and gold, Australian, Aboriginal, wood and stone, hunting and fishing device
larkim Oct 2024 3:54pm, 3 Oct 2024 25,743 posts	Quote Pin larkim [Must remember to use preview!]
ChrisHB Oct 2024 7:32pm, 10 Oct 2024 23,237 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB If someone with a PhD and half a lifetime in Education says that her brother was born "posthumously" which word is she trying to find?
sallykate Oct 2024 7:34pm, 10 Oct 2024 15,306 posts	Quote Pin sallykate No idea but I will be very interested in the answer! The only thing that springs to mind is prematurely.
Charlesvdw Oct 2024 7:50pm, 10 Oct 2024 413 posts	Quote Pin Charlesvdw Or postmaturely.
Northern Exile Oct 2024 8:33pm, 10 Oct 2024 10,519 posts	Quote Pin Northern Exile Has to be prematurely doesn't it? I can't think of any alternatives.
ChrisHB Oct 2024 9:49pm, 10 Oct 2024 23,238 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Now you've pointed it out I agree that that's the likely answer. Even if only the first letter is in common (+ly)