I use "ask" but that is because I grew up in London in the 60s. If I had been born in other parts of the English speaking world or in earlier times, I would be more likely to use one of the other forms.Originally Posted by walpurgis
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I use "ask" but that is because I grew up in London in the 60s. If I had been born in other parts of the English speaking world or in earlier times, I would be more likely to use one of the other forms.
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oddly most folk complained about the toffee nosed bbc english so they reluctantly changed it.If I had my way, people would be speaking nineteen fifties 'BBC English' and be given a damn good thrashing if failing to comply!now its gone too far the other way
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What does irritate me is how certain words have been accepted into common usage despite being incorrect. In the USA, it is almost impossible to escape ads for products to help reduce belly "pooch". This seems to me to be some mutation of "paunch" and "pouch"!
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“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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Be careful not to confuse dialect and accent with the rules of grammar and correct usage.oddly most folk complained about the toffee nosed bbc english so they reluctantly changed it.
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