Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2009

"R H Draney" <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote :

Or what about simply "shed innocence"?

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And will there be a "place of learning" uniform?

Presumably the people who have made this decision will describe
themselves as "place of learning" governors.

After posting that message I had another look at the relevant website. There
is a list of websites for many of the schools in Sheffield. The word School is
included in the names. The new "Watercliffe Meadow" is not yet on the list.

Paul Wolff filted:

Googlism.com suggests the following definitions:

primary is lowest ever
primary is optional?
primary is committed to provide opportunities for our
primary is a mere one month away and despite every
primary is on the republican
primary is a small rural school six miles from
primary is more important than
primary is over
primary is certified
primary is under the direction of
primary is important
primary is also next week
primary is een school die staat in een gemengd woon
primary is open?
primary is quiet
primary is optional? from
primary is a mother lode
primary is?
primary is now available
primary is tuesday
primary is committed to provide opportunities for our pupils to achieve their
fullest and true potential – in line with the ministry of education
primary is one month away and despite every congressional seat being up for
grabs there has been little
primary is on republican side of the ballot
primary is a small rural school six miles from turriff
primary is the only primary school in macduff
primary is 'poor decision'
primary is more important than some realize
primary is between pat buchanan and john hagelin
primary is sept
primary is over saturday
primary is important to the north
primary is
primary is dave vs
primary is used for all com
primary is under the direction of donna attig
primary is important to bush and gore
primary is $1950
primary is best option
primary is also next week"
primary is more than just a critical first test of the candidates' support
primary is called a revolution and is different from a rotation
primary is recovered
primary is going to be a big win for carl
primary is moved to the second tuesday in march to coincide with town meeting
day
primary is situated in factreton
primary is lowered
primary is removed from the cell and readied for transport
primary is the organization of the church for children ages 3
primary is on feb
primary is difficult to treat
primary is in
primary is open? subject
primary is held first
primary is held between the top two vote getters if a candidate does not receive
a majority of the primary vote
primary is in state 2 after sending n1
primary is upon us and it appears as if something major is about to happen
primary is in no way responsible for loss of data; rivonia primary is in no way
responsible for theft of data; rivonia primary promises not to use your
primary is the crucial determinant in deciding who will hold those seats
primary is in march
primary is true else primary is false
primary is all but assured re
primary is tilted then the image that is reflected back to the secondary from
the star will not be
primary is an associate member of the independent schools association of
southern africa and a member of the southern african heads of
primary is first or sie wouldn't be primary
primary is one in which the voter may select a candi
primary is responsible for the problem until it is solved
primary is keen to help members locate their lost accounts through the ato's
primary is member owned
primary is treated
primary is the current selection
primary is the required
primary is held on the second tuesday in march of presidential election years
per §103
primary is deep
primary is energised and the iron core becomes strongly magnetic
primary is the village school of mgarr
primary is designed and optimized for professional voice
primary is achieving high standards in key subjects
primary is something that another body revolves about
primary is an evolved star with unchanged mass
primary is used to denote the units collated together to form a case
primary is the largest agricultural superannuation fund specifically focussed on
the retirement savings needs of rural and regional australians
primary is in the direction shown and growing
primary is almost 10 volts
primary is 0
primary is centered in the cell
primary is turned "on"
primary is yellow and the b star is blue
primary is a rare condition and it is unlikely that you will find yourself in
this kind of situation
primary is a little over
primary is found
primary is twice as bright as the secondary
primary is booting up
primary is the exclusionary process
primary is a program for children who are 5
primary is down
primary is used to hold a list of `
primary is for each of the political parties to elect their own candidates
primary is quiet race

....r

[...]

[...]
Quite so. Having witnessed analogous processes, I think they often start
with an office panic started by one person or very small group.

The panic-starter may be unversed in the skills of literary criticism
and textual analysis, and may himself have misunderstood something
somebody else said, or merely be a bit potty. If the starter or an early
adopter is a member of a group with whom for the time being that office
isn't allowed to argue--almost any group may sometimes qualify, but it's
usually one which can wave a banner with the strange device "Unfair
to..."--then the panic buttons will get smitten all round the department
before lunch. All-same warnings from legal departments or safety
officers taken out of context.

We could all list favourite examples, but my own include my children's
edition  of /The Oxford Children's Encyclopedia/, which called the
language of Germany "German", but the ancient tongue of Wales "Cymraeg"
throughout. British and other copper-speak now imitates a daft
Americanism in calling women "females", and people "individuals". I'll
defer to the learned opinion of our intellectual property guru, but it
seems to me at best redundant for a book to carry the odd message "The
moral right of the author has been asserted". These must all have been
started by somebody who for some social reason couldn't be disagreed
with.

Maria C. filted:

Without bothering the pronunciation, there's "Plaice of Learning"....

("Flounder, flounder, in the sea, prithee hearken unto me")....r