âŚand The Rory Award for âThe Most Gratuitous Use Of The Word âBelgiumâ In A Serious Screenplayâ goes to @Frenzie
Fuck!
(Or is that âBelgium!â?)
Er, since this is the official language thread, ending sentences with a preposition is frowned upon in English I think to avoid dumb sounding sentences like: âWhere is he going to?â
Or âWhere is the football at?â
If you teach people about prepositions instead of avoiding redundancy for stylistic reasons you will end up with nothing but a bunch of zombies claiming thereâs something wrong with prepositions.
Ending sentences with prepositions isnât frowned upon by any expert. Even the awful book by Strunk & White that originated most zombie rules breaks its own evidence-absent rules about things like passives and prepositions constantly.
Of course there is such a thing as situations where you shouldnât end a sentence with a preposition for various reasons. The one you mentioned is simply the more general stylistic preference against redundancy. Others are certain noun phrases. âI admired the patience she spoke withâ is wrong. But this is an exception to general usage rather than the norm.
Formally speaking youâd often use a formal relative pronoun like which, but even then âfor whom is it?â is still plain wrong. âFor what did you buy that?â Nope. Just nope.
Somewhere something went wrong and a large contingent of people seems to think the exception with noun phrases is the rule.
What is the origin of the word neighbourhood then ?
(neighborhood for US) ?
Itâs interesting that you have so many synonyms for that sound a horse makes in English, according to google: neigh, whinny, bray, nicker, snicker, whicker; (archaic) nicher; (rare) hinny
(not counting the few snorting noisesâŚ)
We have exactly one for that high pitched hiii-iiih-uuhu sound : hinniken
Also a Geordie tearm of endearment, usually for females.
Alreet hinny!
I hope the grammar police isnât watchingâŚ
Otherwise you should plead âalliterating embellishmentâ
Itâs not my fault!! My work browser doesnât have spellcheck enabled!!
Yes, this damn A.I.! I have the suspicion that my browser turns the spellchecking randomly on and off in the background. I tell you, this is a conspiration!
I was distracted enough by the subject matter I didnât know âhinnyâ had that meaning - interesting!
It might be an idea to specify what is bigger soâŚ
This game is bigger than I thought.
But then it might be better to go with
This game is bigger than I thought it would be.
I didnât know hinny? thatâs a new one to me. I know Pet .
Where do you call cute girls âbirdsâ is it more a northern or a southern thing?
Well âBirdsâ was a general thing across the country, but not used much now because women are offended by it. Also gone are âCrumpetâ, âOvertimeâ others.
Up north they might call a woman a lass.
In Newcastle, this is a valid sentence: Calm doon man woman!
but most of the country finds Newcastle people hard to understand
(they mainly sound a bit Scottish)
I used to know a bit Geordie slang, but forgot most of it now since I haven´t spoken to the people I knew from there in about 10 years.
As someone who lives up North, I can confirm this!
I was able to understand @tasse-teeâs samples but I assume that she havenât used slangâŚ