Need some help with a letter...

[DaiRees]

[Try to remind your students the old rhyme - "I before E, except after C" and they'll be fine

I'm seeing my neighbour's weird science reigniting caffeine-induced visions of feisty foreign deities. Probably due to the weight of the counterfeit freight...

You need to get out more Matt!

[steve_earwig]

Go read Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue, it's basically a very funny book about why English is so messed up.

I wouldn't recommend that book, Bryson is trying so hard to be entertaining that he doesn't let facts get in the way. It's full of mistakes and mis-quotes. A shame as I quite liked some of his other stuff but now I just think he's a knob!

I did notice some errors with regard to other languages and cultures (no Croat I know says "hi" for instance) but concerning the actual subject I considered it to be more right than wrong, although I realise no-one until the middle of the 18th century even bothered to write an English dictionary so most of the actually medieval English stuff is going to be guesswork (pronunciations gleaned from rhyming couplets in poetry, ffs?), however not that of Bryson himself, rather of latter-day researchers into the subject.

[steve_earwig]

Professor you say?

Yep, she'd a tad overqualified for a librarian but in her old job the stupid politics made her ill. Worse still, my mate Goran earns more than her working in a car spares shop. But she likes kids ( I hate them more all the time) and actually enjoys her job. She must be doing something right anyway as she spots her ex-students all over the place and they're always pleased to see her(while waiting in a big queue at the airport in ZG one time one of them, an airline employee, opened up a counter just for her)

hmm does that make you the teachers pet

Errrr, she was meant to be teaching me Croatian, I came to her because she was someone I didn't know and I thought I'd get more done that way. Ha ha. She's also a (ahem) couple of years older than me

[Bailes1992]

Right rather than send the letter I decided to phone them up and basically recite what I'd written in the letter. They then passed me onto the legal team who told me to pop into Apple in Cardiff at 3.50pm to replace it

[steve_earwig]

Splendid

[StevieboyTD]

Bloody good result.

[DiscoPol]

Nice one Bailes that's an awesome result

[teamster1975]

That's brilliant Sam, well done mate!

[Welly]

and basically recite what I'd written in the letter

[eoin27]

Nice Pic....Mmmmmm Womany

Well done on the iPod. At least you are now equipped to write a complaint letter from now on thanks to your mates on the 406oc!

[Welly]

She looks nice, if she worked with me I'd be up her like a rat up a drain pipe

Bosses can do that can't they?

Can't they?

[eoin27]

Bosses can do whatever they want

[DiscoPol]

She looks nice, if she worked with me I'd be up her like a rat up a drain pipe

Bosses can do that can't they?

Can't they?

only when they are found sleeping on the job
and if youre really careful sometimes they dont even wake up

[mjb]

and if youre really careful sometimes they dont even wake up

You're doing it wrong

[DiscoPol]

You're doing it wrong

maybe for them ,

but i enjoy it