CTID Chris
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Yes. You are right. I was trying to be coy regarding the f*cktards who can't understand the difference of the two words. :)
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Words that people have different meanings of
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Yes. You are right. I was trying to be coy regarding the f*cktards who can't understand the difference of the two words. :)
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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Bollocks.
And who has their tea before 5:00pm other than people that are unemployed?
All those FOC retirees, and anyone who wants a sufficiently long time for the repast to digest before retiring for the evening!
kippax81
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Breakfast when yer wake up, dinner 12 noonish, tea when the clock is showing anything with a four in it, i.e. 4:01 to 4:59!
What annoys me most is not the different names but the different ways of saying the same thing. The correct way of saying 'scone' is to rhyme with gone, not bone! A soft 'o'!
Interestingly Dave, or probably not, but I always remember in English lessons at school it is scone, to rhyme with gone, in the singular and scones to rhyme with bones in the plural. Don't know how true that is though, maybe somebody with a degree in English can confirm (or dispel it as bollocks).
What about those who say "difference of" rather than "difference between"?Yes. You are right. I was trying to be coy regarding the f*cktards who can't understand the difference of the two words. :)
Words change, usage changes, spellings change (chuse/choose), but some things are worth trying to hold the line on. Oops - for some things it is worth trying to hold the line.
(Especially should of .... grrrr) Then "between you and I" ... grrr. Even heard a professional speaker say something "meant a lot to I". GRRRR
Trousers - in the days of the Beswick Prize Band, City played in sky blue shirts and white knickers.
At primary school, I think I either went home for lunch or had a school dinner. I had my tea after school at 4, dad had his at 6, we might have supper before bed, then TV arrived and we discovered that in the posh south people had dinner in the evening (and Upstairs Downstairs had people dressing for dinner, and even wearing a dinner jacket). I might still wonder what's for tea, but happily book a dinner bed and breakfast deal. It really doesn't matter - unlike muffin v. barm (obviously it's a barm).
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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Interestingly Dave, or probably not, but I always remember in English lessons at school it is scone, to rhyme with gone, in the singular and scones to rhyme with bones in the plural. Don't know how true that is though, maybe somebody with a degree in English can confirm (or dispel it as bollocks).
Those with English degrees are probably like economists at the HMT - for each one there will be three or four opinions on the matter. Interestingly, k81, I say scone (rhy: gone) and scones (rhy: dons)!
On here....
Loose instead of lose
Too instead of to (and vice versa)
Of instead of have
Defiantly instead of definitely
Viera instead of Vieira
Quinn instead of Tyler
And, for the OP's benefit, it's "breakfast, lunch and dinner" NOT "breakfast, dinner and tea". Tea is a hot drink favoured by chavs.
There is so much wrong with that last paragraph I've nearly lost my temper.
Dinner time is somewhere between 12-2pm and tea time is 6-8pm.