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ColleenV

11:00

Daily idiom: "hold your own" Willy Wonka brought to life the weird and wild Roald Dahl book of the same name, and it thoroughly established Wilder as a leading man who could hold his own in any comedic situation. (Source)

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ColleenV

13:05

Thanks Smokey, it has been dealt with.

Jasper Loy

LOL after I left the room, 3 mods entered.

I don't expect Damkerng to return anymore.

ColleenV

14:09

@JasperLoy Smokey summoned us probably. Damkerng is missed :(

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Jasper Loy

19:11

Q: "The soup" meaning

I read Post Office by Charles Bukovski and I came across this sentence: The soup was a bullneck named Jonstone. Who could help me to understand this soup meaning

I originally answered this question but then deleted my answer when I saw another answer.

Hmm, actually, only the author of the book will know what 'soup' means!

But I think the other answer is more likely so I upvoted it.

SmokeDetector

19:47

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer: "We all" or "all we"? by user81344 on ell.SE

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userr2684291

21:42

What do you call the belt thingy on the bathrobe which you tie to hold the two halves (sides?) together? The ribbon? tie? belt?

Band?

I asked my online friend from Australia but they didn't know what to call it.

Anonymous

21:55

Usually a sash or a belt.

userr2684291

Aight. Thank you.

Anonymous

Or maybe sometimes a tie.

userr2684291

Haha.

Anonymous

Looks like that's less common, though.

userr2684291

I mean I'd googled this before I asked, and I found sash and stuff but I wasn't really sure how normal people call it.

Anonymous

22:00

Yeah, I think usually a sash or a belt.

userr2684291

Alright, great.

I'm eating plums and they're very tasty.

Delish.

Anonymous

The more I think about it, the more I'm learning toward belt.

Anonymous

Belts aren't as good as plums, but sometimes I learn toward them anyway. Apparently.

userr2684291

Lots of learning there.

I like it when it snaps (the plum, not a belt) in my mouth, haha, and I get to taste the sweet goodness inside. Ahh. Although, I admit, they do require some chewing.

Today was a good day. 10/10, minus a couple of mosquitos (one of them has been found drowning in my soup, thirsty little thing).

Anonymous

22:16

It's interesting how we have nouns ending in o which are spelled oes in the plural, and others which are spelled os in the plural.

userr2684291

I was about to say that. Mosquitoes is also valid.

Anonymous

Yeah, there are a few that are spelled both ways.

Anonymous

Mosquitoes is a lot more common than mosquitos, I think.

userr2684291

You're right.

But there must be at least some kind of observable tendency that takes into account the preceding sounds/letters. Then again, the word's origin plays a large role. gives up Only 156 such words (ending in oes) in the OED.

With say 30 being verbs, by the look of it.

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