Language is always changing, and most often in the direction of simplification. You can even see the evolution happening before your own eyes. "All ready" became "already"; "all right" is in the process, through usage and repetition, of becoming "alright" (if not in fact "a'ight"). It is already ...
@Robusto The idea that we shall bequeath unto our children's children's children a lesser world than the one we knew when we were children, one diminished by our passing through it, was never more true than now at the ends of our own personal lifetimes. But they will say the same when it is their turn.
> Over the last four winters, according to the latest official figures, nearly 120,000 people in England and Wales have died of cold weather, or factors associated with cold weather such as a virulent strain of influenza.
That's odd. The UK is extremely warm for its latitude. Why not set up a proper heating system, like in Russia, that would heat all buildings from a central unit?
@Cerberus In my childhood, it broke down a couple of times in the winter, in Noyabrsk. We put on clothes and prepared to be evacuated by rail to other towns.
But then it was fixed.
So even in a small faraway town in Siberia, in the winter, it was possible to quickly fix it.
Because by sunrise, the heating radiators would have frozen water inside them, and would have started blowing up. This would have necessitated evacuation.
@Cerberus I'm not sure. I know that it has ticked up in places previously more resistant to it as they see so many unvaccinated people suffering and dying. It has certainly increased in that family. But too late.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…