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get me outta here said:
"Those ones" instead of 'those', 'that one' or 'mine'. 'Ones' ... is that a plural of 'one' or what?

"Them" instead of 'those'. Then, you can combine those two into, "them ones" Beaudy.
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I guess if you are talking binary notation there will be lots of "those ones"........lots of "those zeros" too! ;)
 
Boar
Bore
Boer
Boor

Or

Board
Bored
Baud
Bawd

Bored on board without any baud! Way too many similarities.
 
I am wondering if this is correct. I had to send an email (in effect) about a number of different teams and their various jumpers and some things on the jumpers, so...

The teams' jumpers' emblems.

I think it is correct.
 
[h=3]Read Aloud For Best Effect!!![/h]The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali cough tru.
 
JessicaTam said:
I am wondering if this is correct. I had to send an email (in effect) about a number of different teams and their various jumpers and some things on the jumpers, so...

The teams' jumpers' emblems.

I think it is correct.
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As a contrast the plural of Court- Martial is Courts- Martial
 
Major said:
"Lexophile" is a word used to describe those that love using words in rather unique ways,such as "you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish", or "to write with a broken pencil is pointless." A competition to see who can come up with the best one is held every year.

This year's winning submission is posted at the very end.


When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.

A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

When the smog lifts in Los Angeles U.C.L.A.

The batteries were given out free of charge.

A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.

A will is a dead giveaway.

With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.

A boiled egg is hard to beat.

When you've seen one shopping Centre, you've seen a mall.

Police were called to a day care Center where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.

A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.

When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine is now fully recovered.

He had a photographic memory which was never developed.

When she saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.

Acupuncture is a jab well done. That's the point of it.

And the cream of the wretched crop:

Those who get too big for their pants will be exposed in the end.
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Apple releases sleep software as an ap.



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anat0l said:
As in, "The soldier was subjected to three Courts-Martial during his service in the armed forces"?
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Isn't court-martials also accepted?

"How many courts-martial have you had?" doesn't sound right to me.

"How many court-martials have you had?" on the other hand....
 
JohnK said:
Isn't court-martials also accepted?

"How many courts-martial have you had?" doesn't sound right to me.

"How many court-martials have you had?" on the other hand....
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Whilst the alternative may be becoming accepted, courts-martial is correct. Like attorneys general.
 
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JessicaTam said:
Whilst the alternative may be becoming accepted, courts-marshall is correct. Like attorneys general.
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Marshall or martial?

Attorneys General is really weird and another that does not sound right to me.

"There are 2 Attorneys General arriving!"

"There are 2 Brigadier Generals arriving!"

Extremely confusing language.
 
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