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Grammar pedants - help please.

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Dvorak Aug 2019 10:12pm, 31 Aug 2019 17,903 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Annex in the Gannex. Or Gannex in the annexe?
LindsD Aug 2019 10:54pm, 31 Aug 2019 29,211 posts	Quote Pin LindsD I agree with you, H
um Sep 2019 8:37am, 1 Sep 2019 1,197 posts	Quote Pin um Rosehip is right - in English annex is a verb, annexe a noun. In US English (and probably Microsoft) annex is both.
GordonG Sep 2019 11:20am, 6 Sep 2019 7,819 posts	Quote Pin GordonG the other day youngest GordonG asked me why there is a C in words like slick, truck and clock, but not in dark. Impressed by his well observed question, i said i wasn't entirely sure but it was probably linked to how English words have many origins partly because we were invaded so many times in the past. "No," he replied with a grin. "It's because you can't C in the dark" D'oh!
LindsD Sep 2019 10:09pm, 6 Sep 2019 29,301 posts	Quote Pin LindsD groans
Columba Sep 2019 9:56pm, 8 Sep 2019 18,430 posts	Quote Pin Columba Oh, dear.
GlennR Sep 2019 3:28pm, 10 Sep 2019 44,811 posts	Quote Pin GlennR From the current Economist: '...places that accept foreign words with a live-and-let-live attitude are the exceptions. Centuries ago, English, which seems undogmatic, itself experienced the “inkhorn controversy”, in which some intellectuals freely coined words from Greek and Latin, such as “educate” and “ostracise”. (Some, such as “suppediate”, meaning “to supply”, never made it.) Aavik-like, purists fought back, coining terms like “witcraft” to replace borrowings like “reason”. Their attitude was exemplified by Sir John Cheke, who in 1557 wrote: “I am of the opinion that our tung should be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangled with borowing of other tunges.”'
ChrisHB Sep 2019 4:10pm, 10 Sep 2019 18,314 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Not grammar, but Italian thinks there is such a time as 24:00 as well as 00:00.
Cyclops Sep 2019 8:21pm, 20 Sep 2019 3,882 posts	Quote Pin Cyclops Not quite grammar also but what sort of sentence - philosophically speaking - is 'It needs to stand out but fit in'?!
LindsD Sep 2019 8:55pm, 20 Sep 2019 29,532 posts	Quote Pin LindsD A meaningless one?