Assume v. Presume

[EEPhil]

Barton's used to run buses between the cities, but not any more.

Kinchbus*, sometimes disguised as Trentbarton*, only runs Nottingham to Loughborough.(* same parent company)

The other side of the Trent.

Oh, you mean Nottingham (or Notting-gam or Nottinum as I've also heard).

 

[Black Hole]

Wasn't it used like e.g. "I have his acquaintance", "I have her acquaintance", "I have their acquaintance"

No, "my acquaintance" (when clearly referring to more than one). Possibly there is a silent apostrophe in the spelling, which could make it work, if in that era they didn't like the sound of "acquaintances" (like James' ball).

 

[Black Hole]

I thought it was always raining in Manchester.

I could have said "it were always raining in Wales", but that seems like stating the obvious. I was in Leicester contemporary with Ripping Yarns, or there abouts, which is why it got riffed as a personal meme.

 

[Black Hole]

Wasn't it used like e.g. "I have his acquaintance", "I have her acquaintance", "I have their acquaintance"

"These acquaintance" is a clincher. I have another idea: perhaps it is "acquaintants".

 

[Black Hole]

Oh FFS.

I downloaded Google's rip of an 1895 print lodged in the Bodleian in 1896.



So all the way through I've been befuddled by the reader having an affectation! Stand down.