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Wifey boughted it, so I use it!
If you're clever they can fall straight into a log basket!!!
I would just like to say
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If you're clever they can fall straight into a log basket!!!
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Well I did give the short version earlier!!!
I never apologise for giving a proper explanation just in case there is someone who really gives a sh!t!!!
And I think the English/French thing is interesting.
But I may be on my own there!!
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are : there's more than one, like on here ...
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That's the point ...
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Many years ago some of us at work had a discussion and didn't resolve the answer. Which is correct - 1. A pair of knickers is hanging on the washing line. or 2. A pair of knickers are hanging on the washing line ??
A 'pair' is ONE thing - it doesn't matter if it is refering to a single or a multiple - a crowd is gathering .... is just one crowd even though that crowd is made of many individuals.
If you take the singular - 'a pair' out of the knickers then it is correct to say 'the knickers Plural) are hanging .... .
Any clearer??
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Only if you give no singular article/descriptor or adjective such as "a pair of blue knickers is lying on the floor", would the singular form of the verb be used.
Most other cases would be more likely to be plural.
"some" or "my" or any other descriptor, even the definite article "the" are all ambiguous so could, and maybe even should, be followed by "are", or "were". The clue is that "knickers ends in an "-s" which makes them plural even though they are only one garment.
So "Your green knickers were/are still on the line."
But knickers or pants or panties are a real oddity in English. In other languages they are one singular word,
Ditto "shorts", "trousers", "jodphurs" etc.
Even where the French pinch our word, they make it singular, hence, "un slip" (which of course they got wrong, as a "slip" in English although still an undergarment is something entirely different,) means wimmins knickers or panties, same as "une culotte".
They use "un short" for a pair of shorts.
(Can't be assed to find out if it's the same in other languages.)
and here endeth the lesson.
WAKE UP AT THE BACK!!!!!!
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fin@lly got one of my @ltern@tors fitted @ ch@rging
now found ive got @ wiring f@ult
the nsf he@dl@mp @ indic@tor is lighting up slightly, led light he@light h@s blown
so th@t will be @ new p@ir not sure if you c@n buy @ single. oh n my fl@sher rel@y
is pl@ying up might be c@use everything h@s been wet for months now frozen.
now found ive got @ wiring f@ult
the nsf he@dl@mp @ indic@tor is lighting up slightly, led light he@light h@s blown
so th@t will be @ new p@ir not sure if you c@n buy @ single. oh n my fl@sher rel@y
is pl@ying up might be c@use everything h@s been wet for months now frozen.
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Yeah but, no but, worrif you washed em an hung em on a line?
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is lz slow tonight
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is lz slow tonight
Yip.
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theyd come oot pink c@use you nev@ used @ colour c@tcher
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A 'pair' is ONE thing - it doesn't matter if it is refering to a single or a multiple - a crowd is gathering .... is just one crowd even though that crowd is made of many individuals.
If you take the singular - 'a pair' out of the knickers then it is correct to say 'the knickers Plural) are hanging .... .
Any clearer??
Context - there is a thing ....
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Yep, way more realistic!this @ny better for you....
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Quite.A 'pair' is ONE thing - it doesn't matter if it is refering to a single or a multiple - a crowd is gathering .... is just one crowd even though that crowd is made of many individuals.
If you take the singular - 'a pair' out of the knickers then it is correct to say 'the knickers Plural) are hanging .... .
Any clearer??
she could have said, "a bag, a boxful, a shopful" etcstill singular!!!
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I've been looking at the loading mechanism on these (and others, just for interest) lately, is pretty neat.
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No better fun than problem solving.fin@lly got one of my @ltern@tors fitted @ ch@rging
now found ive got @ wiring f@ult
the nsf he@dl@mp @ indic@tor is lighting up slightly, led light he@light h@s blown
so th@t will be @ new p@ir not sure if you c@n buy @ single. oh n my fl@sher rel@y
is pl@ying up might be c@use everything h@s been wet for months now frozen.
Especially of the electrical kind!!!!!
As I have discovered recently you can protect electric stuff with resistors.
Go for it, bud!
Have you still got the box?
Send em back.
"Broken when I opened em"
Seriously, they were possibly quite pricey so.......
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Fla
Just saying.
Just put a resistor in!!!
yer relay might be expecting the full 12v or whatever Watts to be used and if it's a LED that might put it off its swing.fin@lly got one of my @ltern@tors fitted @ ch@rging
now found ive got @ wiring f@ult
the nsf he@dl@mp @ indic@tor is lighting up slightly, led light he@light h@s blown
so th@t will be @ new p@ir not sure if you c@n buy @ single. oh n my fl@sher rel@y
is pl@ying up might be c@use everything h@s been wet for months now frozen.
Just saying.
Just put a resistor in!!!
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