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Re: Construction Toy Grading Standards Now Live!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:51:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.market.appraisal, Ross Crawford writes:
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> > c /could/couldn't/
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> > or
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> > c /could care less/could care less, but not much,/
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> Trust me, if I ever say "could care less" there's an IMPLIED "but not much
> less" tacked on there....
8?)
> (I am reminded, completely non apropos, of "Ending a sentence with a
> preposition is something up with which I will not put." Can you name the
> speaker?)
It's rumoured that it was an English, cigar-smoking prime minister, however it
was actually Sir Ernest Gowers in "Plain words" (1948), who started the
anecdote with "It is said that Churchill...".
So the correct answer's not all that clear...
ROSCO
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| (...) Trust me, if I ever say "could care less" there's an IMPLIED "but not much less" tacked on there.... (I am reminded, completely non apropos, of "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." Can you name the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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