Nice etymological rant, chaps. I'll side with the traditionalists on this one. Dreamt, harassed, etc. Just had a similar chat with Custard on the manc board. He pulled me up for saying gaol, rather than jail. I prefer the word gaol to be honest. It's a nicer looking word and it's an anagram of goal!
It was a rhetorical question... Obviously reading it I know it's another way of saying jail apparently.. Never heard or seen it before though. Just looks wrong
i know, mate, I was just messing. It's another (more traditional) spelling of jail but it's pronounced the same way. First finches and now gaols - we need an IBWT dictionary. Definitely. The Ballad of Reading Jail: that just looks stupid!
As far as I'm concerned, there is no other way of spelling it, other than a completely different word for the same thing
speaking of which................... the wife has hit a new diet... this was about to be a problem.. a REAL problem as the cupboards were entirely bare. But.................. she's got osme diet thing that says a) here's foods to eat that are "free" as in all you can eat" b) here's foods to avoid c) you eat meal then eat fruit win a half hour. So the upshot is I had two poached eggs from breakfast with salt, toast (only compromise was damned brown bread) yesterday i had steak and chips for dinner.. she made wedges in effect and used Cajun spices on them with a big steak.... all you can eat remember apparently all this is good for you. We had chicken curry the day before... again chicken and all the peppers, onions, pea and such in it are free.. boiled rice = ok so in short i can eat as f'n much as i can fit in... so far all I've done is got sprite zero and drank the whole bottle as apparently thats fine too. best... diet... EVER....