Pat Stafford

Does true randomness even exist?

Have Spurs been trialling that this season?

And I believe the UK did the same thing with billions of dollars of Venezuela's sovereign wealth that had been deposited in UK banks.

Divorcé, rather than divorcée, I assume?

Perhaps a non-stationary point of inflection, assuming I've understood the original statement correctly? (Just been teaching about concavity to my Year 13 students)

Have we just passed a point of inflection?

Nicely put! I'd say I'm increasingly introverted (but not "increasingly more") and have learnt to embrace it, too.

I've heard that you can put things called "pictures" or "photographs" on the grey walls to make them less boring. Not sure how that works but might give it a go.

I'm not sure that the mode would be all that helpful

Have you met women?

Have you listened to her stuff with theaudience? It's very good

And you can't park on the road? The bit that's for cars?

You do know that the path outside your house isn't your path, don't you?

The dictionary is responding to current usage, but that current usage is illogical (as your link acknowledges) which is why so many people think it's wrong. And let's face it, it is clearly wrong.

I hope "worse" was just an innocent typing mistake!

It's up there with "I could care less", and "it's not that big of a deal" 😔

"Set foot" or "step", but never "step foot". Never.

:)

Also, I feel that clarity is more important than length. In fact I might go so far as to say I'd put elegance above length. "Obligated" adds length but does nothing for clarity, and reduces elegance. But always good to stay imformated on what other people think!

If used universally there are some (not many) situations where it could introduce ambiguity. I've seen far more cases where omitting it causes a problem, which is why I became an Oxford Comma Cult Member several years ago.

:) Yeah, sorry about that! Why on earth would I include an extra punctuation mark if all it did was remove ambiguity? (I'm talking about a general approach, not this specific example)

They could use "obliged", which would be correct, shorter, and more elegant.

Anyone know why some people insist on adding an extra 'a' and 't' to the word 'obliged'?

A year 11 girl I once taught came up with her own. She got as far as "Sit on his..." when I thought it best she stopped

I work in an international school in Asia. First day back yesterday. Big drop in the number of students going to US universities this year. Principal shared stories of staff holiday travel; nothing from the US (lots of US citizens among the teaching staff).

Leave it in a nearby woods that dog walkers use

Nice. But should it be Bathgate (14) and Kigali (15)?

Not entirely true. Both China (PRC) and Taiwan (RoC) consider Taiwan and mainland China to be two parts of the same country. They disagree on who is the legitimate government.

(b), most likely
If they were arrested it would be because there was sufficient evidence that they had committed crimes

If you (or others) are interested in knowing more, can I suggest reading The Other Side of the Story, by Nury Vittachi.