Pick a Pack of Pikemen

[FierceKitty]

He does, however, speak and write it.

[mollinary]

He does, however, speak and write it.

i do hope we are still talking about English!   


Mollinary

[Leman]

Yes, he's talking about Queen's though and not the idiom peculiar to our island. The citizens of the USA, who also speak a form of English, can't deal with our idioms (and vice versa I hasten to add), e.g. they have President Obama, but we don't have Prime Minister Cameron. We have the Right Honourable David Cameron, the Prime Minister. Knowing what they mean isn't the same as that's how we'd say it. Technically it may be correct to have different forms of 'mail', but in Britain if someone says chainmail we know, even the non-wargamer, non-historian man in the street, exactly what is meant - that clinky stuff in little circles the BBC uses when it can't afford proper armour.

[FierceKitty]

You'll find the UK cognoscenti are in full agreement with me. Idiom is not an excuse for gobbledegook.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Set the attack dog on FK please Phil.......or he will have starting every sentence with SO.

IanS

[Techno]

Woof, snarl, growl.

[Orcs]

Woof, snarl, growl.

Where did you get a picture of my Ex-wife Phil ??

[Ithoriel]

You'll find the UK cognoscenti are in full agreement with me. Idiom is not an excuse for gobbledegook.

Obvious pedant is obvious!

[Techno]

Obviously !
Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

It's how we speak it, in its native land. Get over it.

[FierceKitty]

You lost exclusive rights a longgggg time ago.

[Rob]

For the pedants among us I would just point out there is only a single "g" in the English adjective "long". 

[fsn]

Poor grammar induced stutter?

[Leman]

You lost exclusive rights a longgggg time ago.

Ah, the dulcet tones of the conquered.