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‘lifestyle emporium’ = pulling weeds out of the gravel 24/7/365
people who call the place Tescos make me (a bit) cross too.
Tesco's, obvs. This is almost forgivable, it's a store belonging to Tesco.
How do you feel about "the doctor/s/'s/s'"
I think both is right. Tesco
areis both a single entity and a group of people.
FTFY.
"Tesco" is a company, it is a single entity. You wouldn't say that "my train are arriving shortly" because there's a group of people onboard. This is almost the Lego argument. The groups are Tesco's employees or Tesco's stores.
What's cruise control? Stopping yourself stopping off at your local badger watching place? I don't have one but do use the A9. Shall I go to Hell?
Oh and the apostrophe - a seemingly random device to make writing harder (see also "guess the vowel" and "how many letters?"
apo’strophe?
The thing with the apostrophe is,
If you don't know how to use it - and it's really not difficult - then why not just leave it out? A missing apostrophe is far preferable to just randomly sticking them in words. "isnt" is better than "is'nt."
Isn't dream't a contraction of dreamed? (I'm really the wrong person to ask mind. Left to my own devices I'd have double letters in there somewhere)
Tyson fury getting that decision
Isn’t dream’t a contraction of dreamed?
No.
Dreamt is British English, Dreamed is US English, though either are considered acceptable. Dream't is just gibberish.
The forum not showing my replies that it seems to have accepted.
I think both is right. Tesco are both a single entity and a group of people.
Wrong.
Tesco is not a group of people?
If the big Tesco and the little one down the road are selling apples, then Tescos are indeed, selling apples 😁
Tesco is selling apples from two of its stores. Or if you prefer, two Tesco stores are selling apples.
I was thinking about this earlier (because I'm a sad sack). If you were visiting your sister you might say "I'm going to my sister's." Then we hear the cry of every apostrophe pedant everywhere: "your sister's what?" However, 'her house' is clearly implied here. Saying "I'm going to my sister" would be weird, it sounds like you're going to attend to her somehow.
So by turns is it not correct to say "I'm going to Tesco's" because it is implied that you mean Tesco's store? "Tescos" is as wrong as Legos (where the correct plural is Lego bricks).
Maybe. 😁
Wasn't it dreampt, or did I dream that up*?
*rhetorical question as I can use the internet.
The Post Office scandal.
If the big Tesco and the little one down the road are selling apples, then Tescos are indeed, selling apples
*Tescoes.
*Tescoe's ?
I’m not sure you can be disproportionately cross about the Post Office scandal. Rage at least is completely reasonable. And despair.
Agreed.
People who say 24/7/365
****ing stupid arseholes. What the **** is it supposed to mean. 24 hours a day seven days a week for 7 years and 1 week?
Does anyone know if there’s been a thread on the Post Office scandal?
People who are bad at elocution, but pedantic with maths.
Did something happen at the post office?
@mattyfez you could say that.
The Post Office, and there really is no other way to describe this, extorted money from hundreds, possibly thousands, of sub-post masters, wrongfully dismissed at least a few hundred of them, and wrongfully convicted and sent to jail a significant proportion of those.
Then it lied and obfuscated to cover it up.
So far, no one at the Post Office has been held responsible for it.
People who say 24/7/365
* stupid arseholes. What the * is it supposed to mean. 24 hours a day seven days a week for 7 years and 1 week?
I thought it was just me. I've mentioned it to work colleagues and they looked at me like I'd got two heads. Who ever coined it originally was an idiot.
Sounds like a job for Kevin Costner.
As a nurse I am constantly infuriated to epic levels by other nurses; who put empty medication strips back into boxes, don't replace medication after using the last one, don't remove the information leaflet and continue to insist on ramming the strip back into the box so the box crumples and doesn't fit neatly back into its allocated space on the trolley, start dispenscing from multiple strips of medication, put boxes back in the trolley with the labels facing down so you can't see what they are, don't put medication alphabetically in the stock cupboard, don't write the expiry date on the outside facing end so you don't have to take them all out to check, don't wipe bottles after using them so the next person picks up a gunky bottle.....
And not forgetting people who don't select the option for a link opening in a seperate tab on internet forums!
Apple seemed to take it personally when they were asked to switch from lightning to usb-C connectors.
If my Apple Watch is anything to go by, the charging units couple to a usb-C connector at the other end, too.
And here’s the rub. Most usb chargers still only include a usb-A (female) charging point.
Imagine the dismay on GBO’s face*, unboxing apples new treasure, only to find out that, for the fancy induction charger to work, he’d have to order some usb-A to C adapters.
These adapters probably cost pennies to produce, but are worth £££ in goodwill alone, if included in the purchase.
A lack of foresight on apples part, or just spite?
Smilairly, Apple have been shouting down people’s iPhones to upgrade their Wi-Fi routers to WPA 3 protocol.
Not many in this the uk, as CV of yet.
They could have announced a switch to this new protocol, and then cornered the market…
Overall, I’m impressed when the Apple Watch, even though it he UI is about ten years behind the curve.
id stock up in these, just to avoid any potential tears at Xmas/ win over your neighbours 😉😉😉
* the horror, the horror…
*Tescoe’s ?
Jack Cohen was a grocer originally, wasn't he? So that would really take it back to its roots.
Sorry, it's root's.
On a medical ‘tip’, surely with the vast laundry services within hospitals, it would be more hygienic for the staff to change into scrubs within the hospital, rather than wearing them everywhere.`
they should be. Its a disciplinary offense to wear uniform outside of hospitals / workplaces ( bar district nurses)
*Tescoes.
I wondered this. But then, if you had more than one rhino you'd say "rhinos" rather than "rhinoes." I'm not sure what the rule is here exactly.
Apple seemed to take it personally when they were asked to switch from lightning to usb-C connectors.
I always found it a bit weird that Apple had the 40-pin thing when they were part of the USB Consortium who standardised mini/micro USB over proprietary chargers for mobile devices in the first place.
I wondered this. But then, if you had more than one rhino you’d say “rhinos” rather than “rhinoes
You'd still say rhino.
As in, 'look yonder at that flock of rhino', or 'behold, a herd of rhinoceros'
Just like you'd say, 'oh look, a deer', Or maybe, 'look Margaret, a herd of deer'.
I find it hard to believe that one would describe a herd of rhinos as a "flock."
I just googled it (along with the plural, it is rhinos) and apparently the collective noun is a crash of rhinos. This makes me happy.
I just googled it (along with the plural, it is rhinos) and apparently the collective noun is a crash of rhinos.
Yeah. Confirmation bias innit.
It's either I would wager.
standardised mini/micro USB
Bloody awful, fiddly, fragile little things.
The move to type-c connectors was where one physical connector for everything began to make sense.
I’m currently out of the office now
🤦🏻
I always found it a bit weird that Apple had the 40-pin thing when they were part of the USB Consortium who standardised mini/micro USB over proprietary chargers for mobile devices in the first place.
all about profits. If they have their own proprietary cable then they can sell them at high prices.
I only get cross about shopping trolleys abandoned in the cycling bays so meh!
Kayak, is that in Tescoe's's