DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
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Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
I am not going to dig a hole in the front garden!
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Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Old age isn't for cissies!
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
A good day with words today.
i've manged, with little effort, to get 'extant' and 'tergiversation' into the same post.
Also a very subtle pun on the word 'stroke' So subtle it's almost unnoticeable, and needs pointing out.
i've manged, with little effort, to get 'extant' and 'tergiversation' into the same post.
Also a very subtle pun on the word 'stroke' So subtle it's almost unnoticeable, and needs pointing out.
Born to be mild
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Sapere Aude
Ego Lego
Preferred pronouns - Thou, Thee, Thy, Thine
My non-working days are Monday - Sunday
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
The Cambridge Online dictionary defines tergiversation as: the act of making statements that are different from each other, so that they cannot both be true. That sounds like Trump to me - the world's biggest `tergiversator'. He'd be proud to hear that!
Nullius in verba: On the word of no one (Motto of the Royal Society)
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
We've mentioned it several times on this board. Usually we use it in the sense of
1. to change sides or loyalties; apostatize
Perhaps the mosty famous tergiversator was the MP for Oldham in 1901 Winston Churchill who was both a Liberal and a Conservative during his career.
1. to change sides or loyalties; apostatize
Perhaps the mosty famous tergiversator was the MP for Oldham in 1901 Winston Churchill who was both a Liberal and a Conservative during his career.
Born to be mild
Sapere Aude
Ego Lego
Preferred pronouns - Thou, Thee, Thy, Thine
My non-working days are Monday - Sunday
Sapere Aude
Ego Lego
Preferred pronouns - Thou, Thee, Thy, Thine
My non-working days are Monday - Sunday