Because an 's is the standard way to create a plural of a digit or
digits in English?
I can't let this go unchallenged.
It may be common, but it's wrong, wrong, wrong.
The apostrophe indicates possesive.
Your english teacher would thank me for this.
Worst I ever saw refered to a bunch of
Ralph wrote,
The apostrophe indicates possesive.
Among other things! Its most common use is probably in forming a contraction,
isn't
it?
Your english teacher would thank me for this.
Maybe. Mine would have made a deduction for not capitalizing English.
Worst I ever saw refered to a
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:11:48 -0600
Bill W5WVO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting... Never heard a horse chestnut called a buckeye
before. (Never mind a conker!) Where do they call them buckeyes?
I'm originally from upstate NY, where horse chestnut trees seemed to
be everywhere you looked.
Buckeye is also the term used in the mountains of Western North
Carolina. I have never heard them called a horse chestnut. I only know
of one use for them; when I was a child an elderly neighbor always
carried one in his pocket to prevent constipation. As I remember it,
the wood is very
Yes - but in Buffalo, New York - after we picked
up 10 or 20 horse chestnuts - we'd dry, and
get them all polished. Drill a hole in center,
and string the chestnut - with a shoe string
or a limp piece of horse hide string. Then
my buddies - watch out. They eat some kind
of chestnuts in
John GM4SLV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I live in the Shetland Islands, where there are no trees to speak of,
and no conkers, so haven't been able to play for some years!
-
Let me know if you become desperate, this place hoaches with
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Fred (FL) wrote:
or a limp piece of horse hide string. Then
my buddies - watch out. They eat some kind
of chestnuts in downtown New York City,
in steaming hot carts - must be another type?
Yep...most likely imported from Italy...they are
sweet. Every now and again my
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On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Fred (FL) wrote:
or a limp piece of horse hide string
I am sitting here sipping my coffee and merrily reading my email when I
come upon a word I don't know. As dad always told me, Look it up! So
being a dutiful son I used what is putatively called an English
dictionary. Well, somehow this word was not included within it. OK, I
give up,
Kevin Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am sitting here sipping my coffee and merrily reading my email when I
come upon a word I don't know. As dad always told me, Look it up! So
being a dutiful son I used what is putatively called an English
dictionary. Well, somehow this word was not
AFAIK, a conker in the Mother Country is a buckeye or horse
chestnut here in the Colonies. Likewise, chuffed loosely translates
to stoked -- at least out here on the western frontier.
Andrea is attending a needlepoint retreat at Asilomar later this year.
Given our Equal Hobby Allowance
My wife goes to week long music workshops...keeps everything well balanced ;^)
Doug
W6JD
-- Original message --
From: Fred Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AFAIK, a conker in the Mother Country is a buckeye or horse
chestnut here in the Colonies. Likewise, chuffed loosely
Interesting... Never heard a horse chestnut called a buckeye before. (Never
mind a conker!) Where do they call them buckeyes?
I'm originally from upstate NY, where horse chestnut trees seemed to be
everywhere you looked. I think we had four or five of them just on our
one-block-long street.
Think Buckeye State and
http://ohiostatebuckeyes.cstv.com/genrel/university.html
I just learned what a buckeye is, too. And my parents were from Iowa and
didn't know.
Al
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Bill,
Well, Ohio *is* the 'Buckeye State' - when I grew up in Ohio, they were
called buckeye trees by everyone, it was only later that I learned they
were also horse chestnut trees.
73,
Don W3FPR
Bill W5WVO wrote:
Interesting... Never heard a horse chestnut called a buckeye before.
(Never
Buckeye is an Ohio term ... though I've no idea how much
farther it may have spread.
73 de chris K6DBG
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Apparently not much (to the east anyway), since Ohio is practically in the
back yard of where I grew up near Rochester... Truth to tell, I knew about
Ohio, the Buckeye State, etc., but I always figured a buckeye was probably a
flower or something. Lots of state sobriquets refer to flowers that
Buckeye was the common term in Eastern Iowa in the 50s, so it spread at
least that far from Ohio. I only learned about the Horse Chestnut a few
years ago.
... de Craig AC0DS
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