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hi janey, always say back and forth or to and fro, probably the first one more, hope this sorts you atrgument out!

lol Janey

Just call me the Undertaker.

I have to bury all the corpses (and part-corpses) left by our cats. Mice of all sizes.

This morning I was asked to dispose of a live one brought in during the very early hours. It was still alive so carried it out of the house and let it go in an area of the nieghbourhood not frequented by cats!

Allan

Keep your subjunctive thoughts to yourself Janey...and as for our ignorance....not even going to answer that one :-))))

Liz - No.1 comes next door to my office to get me when he finds a bumble bee in the house. Bugs are my bailiwick, as vermin are yours. ;) I got to fish the dead baby racoon out of my little (7-foot wide) swimming pool a couple of years ago; not bad enough the guilt I felt, he couldn't have just disposed of it without me knowing, no.

I'll bet AllAn never makes his treasure do such things.

I shall keep Leeds Sue up my sleeve. So far, I have had no more argument (or deletion!).

And yes, well, after reading such ignorance of such useful and widely known expressions as "back and forth", I'd be surprised that anyone knew what "whom" was too. ;)

Now tell me about the subjunctive. Hahahaha. That's another bit of proper English we colonials have preserved and you don't got anymore, the result being that you sometimes sound very odd. And illiterate.

nyahahaha.

I thought it was people from Edinburgh who spoke the properist English lol Oh well I was close. They were definitely Scottish though.

I'm beginning to suspect that, unlike the man who threw himself of the top of the Eiffel Tower, we will never reach a conclusion.


Allan

I thought we had progressed to Swinging High and Low!!

No DET it's been............

to-ing and fro-ing!!

:0))

Allan

This discussion has been going back and forth for 24 hours - lol

I was told that the people of Caithness (Scotland) speak the most 'proper' English - one particular (Caithness) lady was amazed that I - an English person - knew when to use 'whom'!! LOL

Hi Janey, well you would find that example, wouldn't you lol? I didn't phrase it very well:

The mouse wasn't actually taking the same peanut back and forth, lol, it was taking a peanut back to it's hideyhole and then coming forth -or maybe fifth when the hedgehogs were around - to grab another peanut which it took back to it's larder and sallied forth again for more.

Haven't found the stash of peanuts but said mouse is probably no more, as o.h. found one quite like it, deceased in the rat trap last week, snapped in the trap. He was hoping I would remove it as he is very squeamish - it was me who had to scrape a dead one off the car tyre once and pick up a dead bird in the garden when I first met him (my hero NOT) but I refused as I was so cross he had caused little mouse to have such an awful end.

Don't worry about ignoring me Janey, it happens lol

Lizx

Well,from a proper Northern lass,,,I say back and forth,,been saying it a very long time too....

This Thread is going Backwards!!

Can we please move Forwards?

:0))

Allan

I have just asked my Oh what he says...and just like a man...he says the opposite to me.He says backwards and forwards........but don't trust what he says...he is an eejit :-))))

Susan who has many pendulums in the house cos other half mends and makes clocks :-)

Edit: Just had a thought...doesn't a pendulum swing from side to side?




oooo....I can feel a song coming on...trala la...London swings like a pendulum do

Of course you do, Deb. You're a proper Canuck / colonial. ;)

And the whole world knows that Canadians speak the properest English!

Try getting a job teaching ESL in Japan with a "northern" accent and watch yourself get beaten out for the job by someone from the true north strong and free ... who speaks with no accent at all. ;)

I use the term "back and forth".

Deb

I was going to say exactly the same, Ann, lololol!!!!!

I would have written Back and Forth then, as well, lolol!

Oh.... I am not Northern stock, mind.... does that alter things???? ;¬))

Love

Daff xxx

I demanded that Liz attend and then ignored her.

This was one of the 3 things I saw (on a very quick glance) where you said it:

"I saw a little mouse scooting back and forth with a peanut to store them somewhere"

There, now everybody point and laugh at her!

Well, the person who kept condescendingly telling me how good working-class northern girls talk to their dogs - like they are the pinnacle of human evolution! - hasn't replied, so maybe I won by default/grinding her down. ;)

I think I would say backwards and forwards and also back and forth.

But the thing that made me giggle Janey was you asking somebody to help you win an argument!!!!! You usually manage that all on your own!