28-11-2021, 12:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 28-11-2021, 12:15 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
(27-11-2021, 12:44 PM)Ian Dunford Wrote: And when did "increase" become the idiotic "ramping up"?...and in "in the future" and "next" become "going forward"?
(28-11-2021, 09:02 AM)Reckless Rat Wrote: Correct, Bob. The term Norman comes from old French/English which means the "Men from the North" or "Northmen", meaning Vikings. They even got as far south as the Cevennes in France as there are traces of Viking history in this area.
...and further than that, even to Constantinople, apparently. They must have been there flogging off their surplus stock of (non-existent) horned helmets. Oh, dear; do we use just "flogging off" as a term redolent with meaning that the parts are indeed surplus, or is it a tautology to say "flogging off surplus stock"? Grammar pedants welcome here and going forward.