German autobahns?

That was then and this is now.

Yebbut you now need to learn this bit:-

When we take a word into English it becomes Ours, not yours, or theirs, or
anybody else's but OURS and as such we have the right to treat it how we
fucking well choose and if we add a rule set to it that is not the
accepted norm that is just fucking hard luck because the word is OURS now
and that makes it English and we certainly shan't be accepting any advice
from fucking foreigners, traitors especially, on how to manage our own
affairs in our native tongue. Thankyou for you attention and patience you
may now **** off and be wrong elsewhere.

 

That will be that piss weak flat northern beeralike you would have been
drinking, they are all like that Sir. Next time perhaps you should try a
decent Southern Beer, one made for real men not their servants.

 

Quality.

 

Heh. Great rant. Unfortunately, it's not 'yours'. It's a German word.

Hope this helps.
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I sit corrected.

 

This is getting surreal...

The correct plural is 'Bureaux de Changes'. It is the 'Bureau' that is in
the plural; not the 'Change', _cf_ 'passerby' and 'passersby'.

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<proffers dried frog pills> They work for me

 

Not at all. The roots may be foreign but the word is now a part of the
English language. A vibrant growing evolving language what takes words in
from everywhere and offers them as a common source of communication to the
whole world and just as your god told adam to do we are naming everything
and that takes a lot of words, even foreign ones and we can't be faffing
about having foreign rules as well because that would not then be English
as God means it to be. So you can **** off with your heretical outbursts
as well.

 

Lovely. Where is that from?

 

Interestingly enough (or not), the issue of when a foreign word is
'incorporated' was the subject of one of the longest debates ever known
over on That word was 'kippa'.
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des
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Its a word understood and in common usage in the english language. Its
something we are good at doing, which is why English moves onwards and
upwards unlike French with its attempts to maintain its purity. There is
a feeling for words that get absorbed as to how they behave, which you
obviously lack. Virtually everyone in the UK knows what an autobahn is,
and if asked for the plural, they'll say autobahns

As they say,those who can, do, those who can't teach

Being a sad pedant might give your sad life meaning

Me, I'm moving on, so **** off back to your little hole

 

Yeah, I never managed to find one, although I have to admit I didn't
look that hard

 

Can't argue with that

 

Smoked fish or a tie is the only way I know kippa and then spelt proper
like. I assume it is Yiddish, it certainly isn't English (yet).

 

Hmm, when is a word officially adopted? It's in Chambers... (It's the
yarmulka - another not so olde English word) ;-)

Tim

 

Sounds like it should be Bragg but I don't think so.

 

Des, who gives a shit?

We have a feeling for what's acceptable and what works

go and find some other little triumph to wank over

 

Exactly. It's Hebrew. The plural is not 'kippas', but 'kippoth'.

QED.
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des
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Chambers doesn't give a plural, so I presume it thinks English
grammar rules apply.

No, *Chambers*! Oh, sorry, misread that as an 'O'...

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