That reminds me ...
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That reminds me ...
I must drag out one of the two vacumn cleaners and do my twice-yearly clean-up of the living-room floor.
Unless the rain stops and the sun comes out to play.
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Chris
Unless the rain stops and the sun comes out to play.
Cheers
Chris
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Re: That reminds me ...
Thank you Geoff! You spotted that well (so now I probably have to wipe up the spots ...)GeoffW wrote: ↑22 Oct 2020, 13:05Vacumn? It has been spelt that way but isn't an accepted spelling as far as I can see.
My mind was absorbed by the vacumn of space, so much so that I had forgotten my Bertie Wooster's Jeeves who always pronounced it with three mellifluous syllables vac-u-um.
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Re: That reminds me ...
I thought it was called a hoover.
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Re: That reminds me ...
Yes, I know; but it is used by the Brits and I think the Aussies generically much as Americans call tissues kleenex.
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Re: That reminds me ...
Bob, you and I went through this some five years ago, didn't we?
Hoover was one of your presidents.
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Re: That reminds me ...
Kleenex might be only a tissue, but it's nothing to be sneezed at.
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Re: That reminds me ...
A trademark which becomes a general term has become "genericized".
It's interesting the words which have become genericized . While I knew about Hoover, biro and sellotape for instance, I didn't know about heroin, kerosene and escalator.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... trademarks
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Re: That reminds me ...
Surely they have been genericised...
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Re: That reminds me ...
Suck it up boys!
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Re: That reminds me ...
One publisher that I do a lot of work for uses Oxford spelling. It took me a while to get used to it.
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Re: That reminds me ...
So do you use the oxford comma?
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Re: That reminds me ...
I never knew that kerosene was once a brand name, and I'm older than dirt (but apparently not as old as kerosene).
Sellotape in the US is scotch tape.
Sellotape in the US is scotch tape.
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Re: That reminds me ...
Chris, Hoover was way before my time. I hear you knew him personally.
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Re: That reminds me ...
Please . . . educate me once again on the Oxford comma. Is it specifically that the comma is not used before the word 'and' that ends a series? I was taught that commas separate nouns, or things functioning as nouns, in a series and is used before a concluding conjunction in a long list, meaning that eliding the comma is most common but optional. (I was also taught to use commas to separate a noun or phrase in apposition; see above.)
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Re: That reminds me ...
It's the other way round: the 'Oxford comma' specifies that you use a comma before the 'and' that ends a series:
Red, white, and blue.
Red, white, and blue.
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