Geez, Jez, you Brits have, or had, one of the world’s most historical, and
perhaps historic, allotment of tin. I’d think you’d know what it was. <g>
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Nov 16, 2014, at 1:21 PM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I thought that we had agreed that tin was aluminium, Jez :-)
>
> Your link your roof didn’t work, by the way.
>
> Chris
>
>> On 16 Nov 2014, at 18:16, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Or a steel can of worms?
>>
>> On 16 November 2014 18:11, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> You should normally avoid putting an adverb just before the verb, Bob.
>>> Doing so often leads to split infinitives; but then you chaps Over There
>>> see nothing wrong with those.
>>>
>>> I know: now another tin of worms is open :-)
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>> On 16 Nov 2014, at 15:52, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It’s not that we didn’t get the joke—well, I did—but rather that we are
>>> driven to the grammar because that’s just the way we are. Or should that be
>>> “that’s the way we just are”? <g>
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