I'd agree. You're going to a shop belonging to a greengrocer, therefore, it's the greengrocer's. It could be the same premise as, instead of saying "come to my house", you'd say "come to mine", and when speaking about third parties, "Let's go to Rickie's." "I left it at Kelvin's." rather than "Let's go to Rickies" or "I left it at Kelvins" - the house belongs to them, so is Rickie's/Kelvin's, similar to the establishment of the greengrocer. Unless the shop is owned and run by more than one greengrocer, when it may be greengrocers'...
The lovely Mrs hotbovril is Polish. Now I'm none too shabby at picking up languages but Polish is simply incomprehensible to me. Any language which regularly interposes two consonants with a third is one which my brain seems to rebel against. However, I now need to learn at least a smattering as I am shortly attending her brother's wedding in Poland and have no desire to explain why we have been together for nearly a decade yet I haven't had the inclination to learn even a few basic phrases. I was chatting to my Dad about how hard it is to pick up and he pointed out that by far the most difficult language to learn is our very own English, not only because of its complex origins but also because of our tendency towards using words which sound exactly the same but which have different spellings (your, there etc) and for using the same word for multiple meanings. He then advised me to look up the word "up" in the dictionary. Sure enough, it can be a noun, verb, adverb, preposition or adjective. Maybe Polish will be a doddle after all! Oh and Jamie Redknapp is literally a waste of skin.
My team at work like to pick a word or two that I have to use in daily conference calls - I got googleplex and veritable today, but managed to slip them in.
Apparently Finnish and Hungarian are even harder to learn than English, according to somebody I know with an impresive 6 languages (fluently) in her arsenal - English not being her native!
I remember one day there was some discussion about GC and how we might "get less Trolls on the site." Initially I thought that it should be fewer Trolls, but upon reflection decided that the best way to measure internet Trolls was by weight.
Of course! Also don't stoop to her level of learning another language, having just one is far better Use 'czesc' (pronounced chesht) for hello, Milo mi pania/pana (male/female) poznac (http://www.forvo.com/word/mi%C5%82o_mi_pani%C4%85_pozna%C4%87/) for "Nice to meet you" and "do widzenia" (Do veedzehnah) for goodbye, you're sorted.
It amazes me just how many people don't know the difference between to, too and two. Aswell as there, their and they're.
Like those that spell too as to, lots of irony on here tonight, use every weapon in the armoury, Litotes, Hyperbole, Irony, Wit, Oxymorons, I luv 'em all.
The ability to spell correctly and to speak properly are not indicators of great intelligence. Just take a look and listen to most of the Tory MPs.
Precisely. If Labour weren't so out of touch right now, they'd realise that all they need to do to win everyone over is elect a leader who doesn't talk like that. Someone who sounds like Ray Winstone would be perfect.
Or they can go for the bound-to-succeed plan of pointing out how the Tories are guiding us back into recession but sticking relentlessly to their plan of "rob the poor, the old, the students, and the north, and then the poor again" isn't actually working (very over simplified I know, but I ****ing hate George Osbourne)
