romansh wrote:

scott1328 wrote:

romansh wrote:

The_Piper wrote:
Hyacinth [B]ucket, was that a pioneer of the floral industry?

It relates to a terrible British comedy program which I look down upon with disdain.
Likely available on a PBS near you.

Remember, Hyacinth's last name rhymes with croquet.

Why would you think I had forgotten?

scott1328 wrote:

romansh wrote:

The_Piper wrote:
Hyacinth [B]ucket, was that a pioneer of the floral industry?

It relates to a terrible British comedy program which I look down upon with disdain.
Likely available on a PBS near you.

Remember, Hyacinth's last name rhymes with croquet.

Fallible wrote:It's a sign of her snobbery. Bucket is common and plain sounding, so she insists on it being pronounced like a bouquet of flowers.

The_Piper wrote:

surreptitious57 wrote:I have just been watching Numberphile about British sayings that confuse Americans

2001 : We pronounce it Two Thousand And One. They pronounce it Two Thousand One
8844 : We pronounce it Double Eight Double Four. They pronounce it Eighty Eight Forty Four or Eight Eight Four Four

Americans living here do not understand how we can have single digit house numbers. How odd and even house numbers
are not always symmetrical. Why office blocks are very often called House and the address is written as One instead of I
And why we do not have a I00 Pound Note as they have a I00 Dollar Bil

I'd say Two thousand and one, eight thousand and forty four (some room for improvement there). We have single house numbers too. Instead of odds and evens on the same side, we have half-numbers and/or letters. Unless you meant that they skip numbers, in which ours do too. I'm a former mailman, I've seen it all when it comes to funny addresses. At least I hope I have.
I don't know what you mean as office block, maybe cubicle. Americans in different parts of the country use different words and phrases too, it's not that difficult to understand.

The_Piper wrote:Yeah sometimes the building numbers and/or street names change at town lines. I've never encountered two "Active" names for the same street though.
An interesting thing, at the far northwestern corner of Maine, where it's entirely uninhabited logging forests, there is a Canadian town that spills over slightly into the US. It was considered Canada until a more accurate survey revealed that a number of houses and convenience store, are in Maine. Now the Maine side has a population of 4. In some houses, the international border runs right through the house, some have Canadian front yards and Maine backyards. There is an understanding that the residents can use their entire property without have to go through customs. There is a customs station there due to the Canadian logging trucks that get their logs from that Maine forest.
There was an incident with US Border patrol agents when they arrested someone going to the convenience store, and drove him all the way to Augusta to be booked, and did some time in jail because he was a felon in possession of a gun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estcourt_Station,_Maine#Michel_Jalbert_incident
(A detail that I love so much is that I can go into the woods here and get to that point over 100 miles away without ever seeing a paved road. )
Are thoses parentheses proper grammer?

Fallible wrote:It's a sign of her snobbery. Bucket is common and plain sounding, so she insists on it being pronounced like a bouquet of flowers.

Fallible wrote:There isn't anything odd about it. Brackets are used to portion off a part of a sentence, but are still a part of that sentence, and therefore come before the full stop (or any other punctuation), signifying the end of the sentence. You agree there should be no capital letters, presumably because you realise that what happens within parentheses, and the bracket itself, is still a part of the sentence it resides within.

aban57 wrote:

The_Piper wrote:Yeah sometimes the building numbers and/or street names change at town lines. I've never encountered two "Active" names for the same street though.
An interesting thing, at the far northwestern corner of Maine, where it's entirely uninhabited logging forests, there is a Canadian town that spills over slightly into the US. It was considered Canada until a more accurate survey revealed that a number of houses and convenience store, are in Maine. Now the Maine side has a population of 4. In some houses, the international border runs right through the house, some have Canadian front yards and Maine backyards. There is an understanding that the residents can use their entire property without have to go through customs. There is a customs station there due to the Canadian logging trucks that get their logs from that Maine forest.
There was an incident with US Border patrol agents when they arrested someone going to the convenience store, and drove him all the way to Augusta to be booked, and did some time in jail because he was a felon in possession of a gun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estcourt_Station,_Maine#Michel_Jalbert_incident
(A detail that I love so much is that I can go into the woods here and get to that point over 100 miles away without ever seeing a paved road. )
Are thoses parentheses proper grammer?

You mean "grammar" ?

Fallible wrote:It doesn't matter. Or rather it wouldn't, if I didn't have some personal quirk which means I feel discomfort when I see such things not looking how I feel they are supposed to be. I don't know if it comes from my OCD or is more of an aspie trait, of which I exhibit a few. There are conventions, which is what I referred to above. It does genuinely cause me discomfort, by the way. I work voluntarily on a Monday in the local cancer ward, and they offer massage and various other things. So far I have managed not to ask them to change every instance where they have written or printed 'complimentary therapies' around the place, but I don't know if I can hold out much longer.

The_Piper wrote:BTW, what does do you accord mean?