Modern Vespa

My five year old grandson - a quite the proficient reader - agrees with you whole (hol) heartedly (hartdle).

Chris from CLE

I've just been on the phone to a chap I know (originally from Ukraine).

He rang to ask for a price for some materials to be delivered to Lo bro

I had to get him to repeat a couple of times, still couldn't get it, so he clarified that it was near Leicester (Lester).. and then I got it

ah right.. Loughborough (Luff burrer)

close, but no cigar..

I mean, it's not exactly Rocket Science.. (luckily for NASA)

I think that one is less to do with English and more to do with The English. If you get my drift.

Oh, the Scots are at it too.... with Edinburgh (ed. ɪn. brə)

oh, I do..

and that statement could be made about a few many things

*Still laughing*

*stl lafn*

Used to be someone in court might Plead not guilty
Now they Pleaded, makes me cringe every time I hear it or see it

Apparently 'pleaded' is the usual North American and Scottish past tense of 'plead' . 'Pled' in the rest of the world perhaps? No - apparently both forms are used just about everywhere.

At least, that's what the OED and Merriam-Webster seem to think.

It's "burglarized" that gets me (along with several other similar made-up verbs) rather than "burgled". And it's a burglar, not a burglarizer...

In point of fact, all verbs are made up (depending on how far back you go).

Heh - like 'gimble', 'galumphing', 'chortle' etc, courtesy of one Mr. C. L. Dodgson.

I was thinking more along the lines of debere, habere, iacere and so on.

All made up.

Weeks start on Monday and finish on Sunday.

I prefer Thursday as the first day.

Work weeks, maybe. Sunday is not the week's end, Saturday is. Sunday starts a new week on every calendar I've ever seen. Maybe it's different in other countries?

Every day I wake up and have the ability to move around and breathe is a first day.

Yeah, if I wake up and don't see dirt, I get out of bed.
I am grateful for each and every day these days.

A company I used to work for, based in a small, coastal country now in the EU printed work calendars that began on Monday.
Surprisingly, or not, hard to get dates right.

Hot Take: The University of Arizona (stylized Arizona), will not make the final four. It's a habit they've developed over years.

There's me thinking Sunday was the 7th day of rest. (Saturday for Judaism?)

I've always treated Monday as the start of the week, and I had to choose my UK diaries to suit - they were 80/20 on Sunday/Monday.

e.g. Week number one in the year is the one with the first Thursday. Three days before, three days after. Monday as the beginning of Week one. ISO8601.

And today's date is 2025-03-23.

I find that styling it as 2025.03.23 tends to remove some of the ambiguity (which wouldn't be a problem with your example anyway).

Nope, it's the 24th

For those living in the future, yes.

Better than living in the past although the NSM group may disagree

Those animals don't even know what decade it is.

😝 🦕

The best use of a dinosaur is to make juice out of them to power my GTS

We're catching up! Wait...

You won't be able to keep up, ya might as well give up ya laggard

The work week for hourly staff at the school district I work for is Friday through
Thursday.

so all 7 days then including the weekend (singular)

Tuesday is the best 1st day of the week as it means sunday-monday are my days off

Best schedule I ever had
5 days on, 1 off, 5 days on each pay period
On the 6th week, 4 day weekend
Lasted three months
The other departments were not able to do something similar & demanded we go back to a "normal" schedule

Back in the day at Thames TV, we had a 7-day fortnight.

M-T On; W-T-F Off; S-S ON
M-T Off; W-T-F ON; S-S Off

By taking 5 days leave (we had 25) you could get nearly 2 weeks off.

Then by 1984, they needed more hours, so all shifts became 12hour shifts, and Friday (if rostered) became 12 hours at double time.

That lasted for several years, none of us ever earned so much again. Golden times!

I think they instituted it to reduce the number of people coming in early & staying late M-Th, then leaving early on Friday so that they don't incur OT. By shifting the work week to end on Thursday, one is less likely to work extra hours earlier in the week, because you'll only get to leave early on Thursday, and still work a full day on Friday.

Another reason might be that it is a school district, and staff that might need to work weekend events are hourly, so by having the week start on Friday means those weekend hours are at straight time, not OT, and their supervisor can send them home early on Wednesday or Thursday to avoid having to pay OT.

Since I retired, everyday is the weekend. I may be getting time and a half or double time but my check remains the same. Just saying.



Chris from CLE

Didn't know you worked at Thames TV..

now I can't get Up above the streets and houses out of my ear

Aaaaarrrrgh.

My work week starts on Monday. We get two days off a week. They have to be contiguous. That means they can't be Sunday Monday because that's two different weeks.

I can't believe I've been getting the words wrong for the last 50 years!

I always thought it was "High above the streets and houses"

Them were the days.

Then there was the infamous Christmas tape:

*ahem*

I realize four days have past since this rejoinder, and there is some irony in my tardy reply...

I think a forum refresh via renaming of the subforums is in order.
I submit that NSM be rebranded Slow Horses.