"Winner takes all" is a common idiom meaning there are no prizes for 2nd or lower places in some competition, often metaphorically applied to situations that aren't organized contests, for example a competition between two companies.
I've never heard "the winner takes it all", but it is perfectl...
> I've never heard "the winner takes it all"
@Robusto not in the Julian calendar there isn't.
You have to subtract 13 from everything.
So there are actually minus twelve months between October and December.
And I've actually studied maths.
So QED, yo.
Also, technically he only specifies the year for the December, but not the October. So maybe he means December 2019, but October 2015. And there might well be three months between those, I've not run the calculations yet.
I was thinking about ruminants, as you do, and I noticed that, unlike with sheep or deer, cows is the plural of cow. I started wondering why, then it occurred to me that maybe there were dialects that used cow as the plural.
I tried searching Google books but in almost all references to "a field...
@Mitch They've been deleted, Thank God... See, what happened wuz..someone would mention a term; then someone else (meaning a different person) would look up that term, find it used in a source about something else (meaning a different topic), and then cite that as proof. Then another person (person #3, which rhymes with me) would mention a term for that topic (because it wasn't spelled out in bold anywhere, I guess); and so, of course, the different person looked up the different term...
@Mitch BTW, you're cited as a source to prove that "we was" is just jim-dandy, hahaha, really.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…