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post Feb 4 2012, 12:48 PM
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Which is correct - parents association, parent's association or parents' association?
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post Feb 4 2012, 12:56 PM
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Which is correct - parents association, parent's association or parents' association?

It depends how many parents are in the association but, assuming more than one, the last version.
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post Feb 4 2012, 02:32 PM
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On the other hand, there must be some such (aha) associations that are run by one PW - and in that case .... !
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post Feb 4 2012, 03:51 PM
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New names - I have fun with new enquiries too. I find part of the trick is getting away from 'English' concepts of vowels and dipthongs, and will give it my best shot, although at the end of the day it's often guesswork.

Seeing we're in the pedants' thread......but I'm sure it was just an oversight (or a dyslexic finger).

I collected my violin from the luthier today, and he startled me by saying that he had "fettled" a violin. I have never heard the word used as a verb before, and started wondering if it was Scottish dialect, or (more likely) plain ignorance on my part. Is is a valid usage of the word? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Edit: The Oxford Shorter English Dictionary is happy with it, so I guess that's a "yes". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Feb 4 2012, 04:21 PM
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Clearly you don't know many cyclists - they are always fettling (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Fettling is widely used in N Derbyshire and S Yorkshire!
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Fettling is modern teenage slang for being sick... (sorry to lower the tone! I don't use the word myself)
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Fettling is modern teenage slang for being sick... (sorry to lower the tone! I don't use the word myself)

I won't be able to hear the expression "in fine fettle" in quite the same way again... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ill.gif)
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post Feb 4 2012, 08:48 PM
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QUOTE(Misterioso @ Feb 4 2012, 03:51 PM) *

QUOTE(maggiemay @ Feb 4 2012, 08:34 AM) *

New names - I have fun with new enquiries too. I find part of the trick is getting away from 'English' concepts of vowels and dipthongs, and will give it my best shot, although at the end of the day it's often guesswork.

Seeing we're in the pedants' thread......but I'm sure it was just an oversight (or a dyslexic finger).

I collected my violin from the luthier today, and he startled me by saying that he had "fettled" a violin. I have never heard the word used as a verb before, and started wondering if it was Scottish dialect, or (more likely) plain ignorance on my part. Is is a valid usage of the word? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Edit: The Oxford Shorter English Dictionary is happy with it, so I guess that's a "yes". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)



QUOTE(Maizie @ Feb 4 2012, 04:21 PM) *

Clearly you don't know many cyclists - they are always fettling (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)



QUOTE(madbassoonist @ Feb 4 2012, 06:01 PM) *

Fettling is modern teenage slang for being sick... (sorry to lower the tone! I don't use the word myself)


Glad we've got that fettled then (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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Fettle: can mean 'condition' as 'in fine fettle'; can mean to line a puddling furnace; to scour e.g. rough castings; reflexively to get oneself ready, e.g. for battle.

Origins include Middle English, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse

Nice to know that modern teenage slang is using traditional words (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Useful things dictionaries...
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post Mar 24 2012, 12:46 PM
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'Pivitol game on road to Champions' League'...
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post Mar 24 2012, 01:37 PM
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Headline on MSN...

'Pivitol game on road to Champions' League'...

Pivitol. Hmm. I'm sure my doctor put me on that once (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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I read a mark sheet yesterday which described the candidate's singing of a folk song as having 'good annunciation'...

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Pivitol. Hmm. I'm sure my doctor put me on that once (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


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I read a mark sheet yesterday which described the candidate's singing of a folk song as having 'good annunciation'...

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

I wonder what a bad annunciation is?

Perhaps (IMG:http://www.emoticonsfree.org/wp-content/uploads/mad0015.gif)
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