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[Black Hole]

Is bails of rice correct then?

It's It was not obvious to me that it's not correct. For "bails" read "bales". Too subtle for me!

 

[peterworks]

Bails go on the top of wickets, bales contain, eg, wool, hay, rice, etc

 

[RobH1]

It's It was not obvious to me that it's not correct. For "bails" read "bales". Too subtle for me!

Really? I thought it was very obvious. Not like you BH.

 

[prpr]

Here's another from the gift that just keeps giving:



and this one goes on about caustic acid, whatever that substance is.
Anybody got any dry water?

 

[Black Hole]

and this one goes on about caustic acid

Perhaps somebody will describe a flourishing poinsettia as "verdent".

I often wonder about people who consider themselves qualified to answer technical questions in the "Answers to Correspondents" page in the Mail:

 

[prpr]

Yes, the energy vs. power battle is one I've fought before. You pay for energy, not for power. I won that one.

 

[gomezz]

I don't have the energy nor the power to bother fighting those battles.

 

[prpr]

I don't have the energy nor the power to bother fighting those battles.

don't/or rather than don't/nor I would have thought.
In any case, those sort of things don't phase me.

 

[RobH1]

I thought that too, but I'm almost giving up being a pedant. The more I read replies from the public at large, I feel that life's too short ( even shorter if you believe the press).

 

[gomezz]

don't/or rather than don't/nor I would have thought.

You would have thought wrong. Expanding the statement to

"I don't have the the energy or do I have the power"

makes no sense.

 

[prpr]

You would have thought wrong. Expanding the statement to

"I don't have the the energy or do I have the power"

makes no sense.

I don't think so. Your expansion makes no sense from what was originally written, but conveniently changes things to 'prove' your point.
Nor is usually used with neither, so:
I have neither the energy nor the power
I don't have the energy or the power
would have been better.
Anyway, nobody picked up on "phase". Wasted.

 

[MikeSh]

Anyway, nobody picked up on "phase". Wasted.

I noticed it but couldn't decide if it was you being clever (as the discussion was about electricity), you just getting it wrong, or an autocorrect issue.

As such I decided anything I said had only a 33% chance of being right ...

 

[trog]

The current posts in this thread are shocking.

 

[MikeSh]

The current posts in this thread are shocking.

 

[prpr]

As such I decided anything I said had only a 33% chance of being right ...

I don't use autocorrect, so that raises it to 50%. I don't (generally!) get things wrong (unless deliberate), so the balance of probabilities is now... ?
So perhaps you're guilty as charged.

 

[trog]

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I may be guilty as charged but what on earth is wrong with trying to generate something positive rather than negative ?

 

[MikeSh]

I don't use autocorrect

I'm not psychic.

I don't (generally!) get things wrong

... but this could have been one of those occasions. Again INP.

So perhaps you're guilty as charged.

(sorry, no groan for that).

Perhaps you should italicize your 'play' words.

 

[MikeSh]

I may be guilty as charged but what on earth is wrong with trying to generate something positive rather than negative ?

Oh god. We've got Christmas crackers in a week's time ...

 

[trog]

Oh god. We've got Christmas crackers in a week's time ...

Stay grounded Mike, live and let live and try to remain neutral.

 

[prpr]

I'm trying to stay down to earth about all this stuff now.