26th October 2003, lunch time | Comments (2)
He has a sore back. She rubs some liniment into it.
He says, I can’t smell anything, are you sure it’s the right stuff?
She checks. It’s not…
View this post in full (60 words, 1 image).
26th October 2003, lunch time | Comments (1)
One of my mother’s pet peeves has long been the phrase “various different”. It seems like needless repetition of the concept.
But as it turns out, “various different” is perfectly acceptable:
Various different is not redundant; it means “a variety of different things,” and it is Standard. (Various things and different things are not quite the same, either.) But be aware that some commentators still object, even if unreasonably, to various different anythings.
Navigation
Warning: include(blog/include/nav_main.php) [
function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/dunstan/public_html/blog/archive_day.php on line
462
Warning: include() [
function.include]: Failed opening 'blog/include/nav_main.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in
/home/dunstan/public_html/blog/archive_day.php on line
462
Warning: include(blog/archive_right.php) [
function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/dunstan/public_html/blog/archive_day.php on line
468
Warning: include() [
function.include]: Failed opening 'blog/archive_right.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in
/home/dunstan/public_html/blog/archive_day.php on line
468
Warning: include(blog/include/tabs_blogmarks.php) [
function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/dunstan/public_html/blog/archive_day.php on line
473
Warning: include() [
function.include]: Failed opening 'blog/include/tabs_blogmarks.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in
/home/dunstan/public_html/blog/archive_day.php on line
473
Warning: include(blog/include/tabs_blogroll.php) [
function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/dunstan/public_html/blog/archive_day.php on line
477
Warning: include() [
function.include]: Failed opening 'blog/include/tabs_blogroll.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in
/home/dunstan/public_html/blog/archive_day.php on line
477
Warning: include(blog/include/weather_locationdetails.php) [
function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
/home/dunstan/public_html/blog/archive_day.php on line
482
Warning: include() [
function.include]: Failed opening 'blog/include/weather_locationdetails.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in
/home/dunstan/public_html/blog/archive_day.php on line
482
Site powered by