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Grammar pedants - help please.

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Dvorak Aug 2024 7:15pm, 12 Aug 2024 27,977 posts	0 Dvorak On their Hereford and Worcester news page, the BBC go for a one-two on the "From other local news sites" section. New film featuring TV stars being shot at railway Kidderminster Shuttle and Troubled mental health unit in Redditch set to close Redditch Advertiser
Northern Exile Aug 2024 7:44pm, 12 Aug 2024 10,439 posts	0 Northern Exile 🤔
Dvorak Aug 2024 8:43pm, 12 Aug 2024 27,978 posts	0 Dvorak Well, we could do without some TV stars, reality "stars" especially, but I wouldn't advocate shooting them. At a railway or otherwise.
ChrisHB Aug 2024 5:26pm, 21 Aug 2024 23,186 posts	0 ChrisHB Another one for maths pedants "1 cup of wholegrain spaghetti (cooked weight) = roughly 36g of carbohydrates" from a nutritionist writing in the Telegraph (who must surely be some kind of scientist and numerate) who thinks that volume and weight are the same thing, and also someone who has never worked in a kitchen and thence gained the knowledge that you cannot reasonably measure a cupful of spaghetti. What's more they think that an equals sign means 'provides'. (To be fair to this individual it is quite common for Americans to think they are weighing things when they measure in cups.)
sallykate Aug 2024 7:48pm, 21 Aug 2024 14,824 posts	0 sallykate Weird. 150g cooked wholewheat spaghetti would provide about that amount. But who on earth goes round measuring cooked pasta in cups? I thought even Americans only used them for baking. I will refrain from remarking on the reliability of anything written in the Telegraph on any subject.
RichHL Aug 2024 10:41am, 27 Aug 2024 23,298 posts	0 RichHL My ex who had lived in the US said that cups were useful for baking measurements because scales were in limited supply when European settlement was underway. You could use the same cup and get a reliable proportional measurement of flour to sugar or whatever. Cups are indicators of settler ideology. Or something like that.
LindsD Aug 2024 10:42am, 27 Aug 2024 69,483 posts	0 LindsD Blimey
RichHL Aug 2024 7:04pm, 27 Aug 2024 23,304 posts	0 RichHL I've been spending time on Radical Left Threads. It's a bit weird.
Dvorak Aug 2024 11:32pm, 27 Aug 2024 28,041 posts	0 Dvorak America will never be free until they discard cups as a unit of measurement! Do the Radical Left favor metrication, or do they adhere to (hem hem) Imperial measurements?
NordRunner Aug 2024 9:23am, 28 Aug 2024 4,500 posts	0 NordRunner RichHL wrote:My ex who had lived in the US said that cups were useful for baking measurements because scales were in limited supply when European settlement was underway. You could use the same cup and get a reliable proportional measurement of flour to sugar or whatever. Cups are indicators of settler ideology. Or something like that. That's right. They were popularized at the end of the 1800s in a Boston cookbook by an author called Fannie Farmer.