Tweet of the Week
SarahBrown10Just got back home - so pleased to be back and see everyone
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I don't usually comment on tweets but this one is an exception. Sarah Brown just tweeted the above. She has been in North Queensferry this week. I won't say 'at home' because she obviously doesn't think it is home. I wonder what her husband's electorate would think if they read it because they are so proud the Browns home is there. A wee bit miffed perhaps?
Editor's amendment: She has been in Hollywood not North Queensferry. Gordon Brown was alone in North Queensferry, but the message still infers home is London. My apologies.
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Home for Sarah Brown is anywhere away from Snotty. I can't say she's wrong!
I'm probably wasting my time, but when you say 'infers' you actually mean 'implies'. You can tell there's an age gap here, because modern dictionaries say the words are interchangeable. Those effing silly dictionaries have given up the fight.
I was once at a really important meeting with the directors of the company. At one point, the Finance Director, a lovely man, used 'infer' when he clearly meant 'imply'. As part of my contribution I playfully corrected him (because he was himself a stickler for form). What a pedantic fool I am - he was actually the only man on the board who agreed with me, and I'd just gone and pissed him off.
Hope I don't piss you off, subrosa - if you don't reply, I will infer much from your silence, as it might imply disapproval.
To your point: I very much hope that the Browns consider somewhere far furth of Scotland as their home - who would want such neighbours?
You're not wasting your time in the least Vronsky and I sit corrected. Actually, back in the 50s I remember my English teacher continually asking why I was so pathetic at English and yet came out top in German. I know now it was the lack of interest in English on my behalf because she always pushed Shakespeare whereas the German teacher made the language live for me.
I fleetingly considered writing imply Vronsky but infer got there first :)
Never upset the only person who defends you, I was taught a similar lesson when young and mouthy.
America is being courted by the Browns it appears. Good luck to them - the Americans I mean.
Oldrightie, she'll stick by him for social reasons if nothing else. She likes the limelight or she would never have had the job she had would she?
Perhaps you would like to find out if the Browns have a laser printer installed in their Scottish home.
Dare I ask why Howard?
Pass the boak bag.
Unfortunately I feel it is a dry one, they really are the worst.
hum... infer and imply get loads of people mixed up, but I didn't know that dictionaries now consider them interchangeable.
They did the same thing with "decimate", which originally meant to reduce by one tenth, and now seems to mean either that or devastate....
If I were Sarah, I'd not get too comfortable with the idea of Scotland as a home. England is the place for Gordo.
Ah tris you're right. I should have known better at my age and I possibly did until some years ago. Perhaps it's because I'm being brainwashed by the new pronunciation of words like controversy and constable. Poor excuse I know.
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