miserableoldgit

Oh, and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto! Bliss!

I love Vaughn Williams (esp The Lark Ascending which IMHO really does evoke the English countryside)and Handel. Some versions of "Largo" from "Xerxes" make me cry, as does"Nimrod" from Elgars "Enigma Variations". These choices may be somewhat predictable and populist but they are beautiful.

quisling

Pity that they didn`t turn up at all today!!

http://www.bellowhead.co.uk/

methoral

formaldejekyll

I went on a visit to SMS when it was being built and I asked about under soil heating and I was told that there was none. They decided not to install any to save cost and because we very rarely had games called off.

Interesting little website.

Ooohh Yess

It`s a long journey from SMS to Bethlehem.

With three men at the front carrying gold, frankincense and myrrh??

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336310/Adults-deliberately-dumbing-language--putting-proper-English-peril.html

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Toe

Today I am mostly in a Christmas mood listening to "James Taylor at Christmas" (the best Christmas album IMHO), followed by "Kate Rusby - Sweet Bells" and "Gretchen Peters - Northern Lights", whilst decorating the tree.

Ma Baker

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/celticconnections/2010/artists/inge_thomson/

Old Thumper

Brickwoods

Are you suggesting that there is, therefore, no need to be able to spell, or use the correct words in the correct circumstances. Is it acceptable that many people nowadays do not know the difference between for example, "your" and "you're" or "their", "they're" and "there?" I fully accept that our language is always changing, but there has always been, at least a basic knowledge of the current rules of spelling and grammar which seems to be disappearing at a great rate.

Like everyone else I use some modernisms, americanisms and shorthand (and the odd typo) etc., but I do try, generally, to stick to the rules that were taught when I was at school. The basic problem is, as I see it, that if we are not careful we will end up with a language that has no rules - a language where, as long as it is understood, everything is "do as you please".

noun any of the military expeditions which Christians undertook from the 11th to the end of the 13th cent. to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims a vigorous, concerted action for some cause or idea, or against some abuse

Sadly, IMHO, texting and the internet have made us very lazy when it comes to grammar and the proper used of our language. The basic premise seems to be "as long as I am understood, the rules don`t matter". Maybe this is right, but if it is the way that things are going, I find it very sad. As you have shown, it really doesn`t take much effort to find out the correct way of doing things.

Generally "affect" means to influence someone/something whilst "effect" is the result of something.