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Assume v. Presume

Interesting! I was going to say only one matched the template - then I spotted three * not four. Technically, it could be anything as * usually matches to one or more characters. I can guess the missing word. (French Connection UK?)
 
Naff!ng, flam!ng, sodd!ng for starters. Test your creativity.

* is usually zero or more, not one or more, in regexp terms. I thought I'd put 4, but see now it's only 3. Oh well, that's the usual muck-up then.
 
prpr said:
Naff!ng, flam!ng, sodd!ng for starters. Test your creativity.

* is usually zero or more, not one or more, in regexp terms. I thought I'd put 4, but see now it's only 3. Oh well, that's the usual muck-up then.
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My creativity is lacking. But there would be no need to redact your examples.
I was never very experienced with regexp. I was thinking of filenames in DOS and VAX/VMS - I've a feeling that would still match zero or more. :oops:
 
My creativity is severely lacking trying to think of a 3-letter rude word, let alone one which would not end up as seven letters once "ing" was added.
 
@ BH and EEPhil,
Is it raining at your respective locations? If not you should get out more! ;) (It is raining in my area, therefore I have an excuse to be reading your insightful musings.)
 
New word uttered on Breakfast:– sortation: the process of sorting charity shop donations on receipt.

Dunno what's wrong with "sorting", I guess it just doesn't sound grand enough.
 
Black Hole said:
sortation
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I'd never heard of the word. Unfortunately all the reputable online dictionaries are behind a pay wall or rely on me to disable the ad-blocker. From what is left, sortation has been around since the 1840s! I can't see why you'd use it rather than sorting - except sortation may imply mechanical rather than manual sorting.
 
Out of some misguided interest, I've been listening to Northanger Abbey on solo car journeys. Ye gods, Austen twitters on (or perhaps 18th century conversation was like that – I noticed the same in Conan Doyle and wondered whether people really spoke that way)! At least I'm not wasting any actual time on it.

For one thing, several mentions of "grape coat" (or so it sounds in the narration). I had always assumed "grape coat" was a mis-hearing of "great coat", but here it is, presumably in print (I ought to check).

Then there's the use of "acquaintance". From the context, it seems "acquaintance" was both singular and plural, when I would use "acquaintances".

I'm sure there will be more to come.
 
Black Hole said:
And I spent my University years in Leicester.
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Humphrey: You have my deepest sympathies minister.
Despite coming from not that far away, I've never been, apart from a visit to the NSC.
How is it relevant anyway, when EEPhil is in the environs of NotNum?
Black Hole said:
it seems "acquaintance" was both singular and plural, when I would use "acquaintances".
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Wasn't it used like e.g. "I have his acquaintance", "I have her acquaintance", "I have their acquaintance"
i.e. like a state, similar to how you would use "knowledge" - "I have the knowledge of X, Y and Z", rather than "knowledges".
 
prpr said:
Humphrey: You have my deepest sympathies minister.
Despite coming from not that far away, I've never been, apart from a visit to the NSC.
How is it relevant anyway, when EEPhil is in the environs of NotNum?
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I've rarely been to Leicester*, just some (failed) job interviews. Didn't notice the rain. In any case, RobH1 would have been referring to our locations yesterday not 40ish years ago!
(* Loughborough - a different matter. The occasional pub crawl with a colleague who lived in Leicester but worked in Nottingham)
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Num - where's that?
 
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