EEPhil
Number 28
I doubt it, they were hardly relevant at the time!
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Assume v. Presume
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EEPhil
Number 28
You could say the same about prescription charges. How we managed, in England, to get them free from 60 I don't know - but am grateful! Fortunately I wasn't diagnosed (hypertension) until I was 60, otherwise I'd have needed a season ticket! Four items at £9.90 per item every 28 days = a lot (£514.80/year vs £114.50-ST vs free-over 60).
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antipodean
Active Member
Or inductors. Microhenries are common at frequencies in the shortwave region and above.
OP
Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
Because of equality legislation when women still got their state pension at 60. Same applied to my bus pass.
OP
Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
Naïve.
I've learnt something today. The two dots are a diaeresis not an umlaut, and indicate the vowels need to be pronounced separately (effectively the opposite of a diphthong). If English spelling made use of accents, it would be a lot less confusing!
I've learnt something today. The two dots are a diaeresis not an umlaut, and indicate the vowels need to be pronounced separately (effectively the opposite of a diphthong). If English spelling made use of accents, it would be a lot less confusing!
EEPhil
Number 28
Something else for those over the pond to mess up.
antipodean
Active Member
Do you mean the sort of accents used in dictionaries to show pronunciation? New Zealand has done that because of Maori pronunciation which has cocked up anyone else reading New Zealand English.
Anyone who watched the last series of Fake or Fortune would have seen some of this where the New Zealand museum was referenced in one episode to authenticate a New Zealand artist and the museum name is referenced every time by its combined Maori and English names. Every Government department is done the same way, with some now having only Maori names.
Makes looking at any news from 'home' a real pain.