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TheRonRaffertyFanClub
July 26, 2021, 1:14pm
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You are right. Got myself confused - meant to say 'kick-off'. You see it with a hyphen, but also as one word.

I wouldn't say that all hyphenated words will lose their hyphen - just those that can 'afford' to. And by that I mean, those that (over time) people choose to drop. You can see the trend. Words like 're-instate' are just 'reinstate'. At the moment, both are acceptable.

My favourite football term is 'resign'. A manager tends to resign but players tend to re-sign. In this example, the hyphen is crucial to the meaning of the term, yet people will happily say Shaun Pearson resigned for us.


I think the next to disappear will be colon and semicolon which is a pity. They do valuable service in breaking up and making sense of long lumps of prose.


“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty."
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Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub


I think the next to disappear will be colon and semicolon which is a pity. They do valuable service in breaking up and making sense of long lumps of prose.



I had a lot of problems with my colon until I had surgery, then it became a semi-colon.


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Quoted from friskneymariner
Text speak is now creeping into language.


LOL PMSL


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Just finished reading through the whole of this thread and my computer just printed out a GCSE English Language pass certificate.
😂😂😂


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Read a football forum and end up with an A Level in English.

Only on the Fishy.

(Is my grammer correct?)
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Well I are well im-pressed with the english lesson but is we signing anybody????!!!!!!
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Quoted from rancido


I had a lot of problems with my colon until I had surgery, then it became a semi-colon.


I was waiting for someone to do that. I don’t mind playing Ernie Wise to someone else’s Eric Morecambe.



“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
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Quoted from rancido


I had a lot of problems with my colon until I had surgery, then it became a semi-colon.


My sympathies, I always had painful experiences with my apostrophes so I decided to remove them
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I have worked with a lot of people over the years that do not have English as their first language.

These sentences always baffled them and when they asked, "why dose the same word mean two different things?", it was very difficult to explain.

The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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Aloud instead of allowed.


Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day,teach a man to fish and you give him an excuse for him to escape from the wife and kids for the weekend and drink lots of beer.
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