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bugshaw at 11:50pm on 07/08/2007
bugshaw at 11:50pm on 07/08/2007I have always had trouble remembering what the plural of "bus" is, so for my last post I looked it up in the dictionary. It's "fleet" Predominantly "buses" in the UK, "busses" in the US. That ought to have made its way into long-term memory now.
While I had the dictionary out, I thought I'd check on a pair of words that I often get confused: solipsism and solecism. Could it be any more ironic that "solecism" means "a mistake of grammar or idiom; a blunder in the manner of speaking..."
Oh, I have a high life, counting purported buses and looking things up in dictionaries. Can I stand the excitement or will I have to go and have a bit of a lie-down? :-)
While I had the dictionary out, I thought I'd check on a pair of words that I often get confused: solipsism and solecism. Could it be any more ironic that "solecism" means "a mistake of grammar or idiom; a blunder in the manner of speaking..."
Oh, I have a high life, counting purported buses and looking things up in dictionaries. Can I stand the excitement or will I have to go and have a bit of a lie-down? :-)
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