tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post6348201081265011894..comments2023-09-21T08:53:42.554+01:00Comments on blethers: Brainless twats, anyone?Christine McIntoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14198224025775398453noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-61489755309771822382007-07-19T22:57:00.000+01:002007-07-19T22:57:00.000+01:00This is what I love about blogging - the blog bedf...This is what I love about blogging - the blog bedfellows!Christine McIntoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198224025775398453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-77910984068294925992007-07-19T22:54:00.000+01:002007-07-19T22:54:00.000+01:00I can see now that I am going to have be more care...I can see now that I am going to have be more careful. After all, I come from the south (US) where both grammer AND pronunciation (and sometimes spelling)are tricky. After all, making a 5 letter word into three syllables is not always easy.<BR/><BR/>I'm glad somebody is watching over us, though. ;)Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10842576168520693461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-75372636991008689802007-07-19T01:02:00.000+01:002007-07-19T01:02:00.000+01:00... and another thing hit me on the staircase: did...... and another thing hit me on the staircase: did Robert Browning really think that a nun's twat was part of her (dress) habit? "Blunderingly" is how Chambers defines <I>that</I> Mr B's misinterpretation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-52999167352447862292007-07-19T00:15:00.000+01:002007-07-19T00:15:00.000+01:00I am in your debt for this egregious piece of repo...I am in your debt for this egregious piece of reportage. On an evening when one of the items in the increasingly irrelevant BBC news was about a self-driving car (which, after all, is what <I>automobile</I> loosely means), it delights my soul to read of the self-releasing and -propelling bus. It could only happen in Paisley.<BR/>I share your loathing of misrelated participial phrases, as well as of participles that merely dangle; but "Back to the Guardian ..."???! <I>Pace</I> your esteemed scion, nothing would make me return thereto. I did buy one last Thursday en route to Banbury to see my 7-month-old great-niece, because there was a chance that her photo would appear in it as part of a group of swimming babies. There was a splendid photie, but she wasn't part of the group.<BR/>My aversion to what I'm sure is a great newspaper arises from the pi whining noises which used to emanate from its letters page back in the day. They may still do so. However, I shall for ever be grateful to the Guardian for the best literal I have ever seen. At the time of the Jeremy Thorpe affair, it carried a po-faced editorial containing the immortal phrase " ... a megaphone rectal of bedroom indelicacies ...". The sub was obviously no Hammurabi: s/he didn't have an eye for an i.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com