Suggestion for a new/improved subtitle: "Then as now, British swiftly forced to retweet."

[url]http://www.people.com/article/hello-kitty-not-a-cat[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;381595][url]http://www.people.com/article/hello-kitty-not-a-cat[/url][/QUOTE]

A purrr-fectly shocking revelation! The pointy ears and whiskers would, however, beg to differ.

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[url=www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/upshot/how-social-media-silences-debate.html]How Social Media Silences Debate[/url] | NYT

As a leading purveyor of "manufactured consensus", the NYT certainly should know...

Train vs car
 

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI5syATWoCQ[/url]

[URL="http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/12-common-words-that-will-boost-your-scrabble-score"]12 Common Words That Will Boost Your Scrabble Score[/URL]

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/30/new-york-teen-dies-taking-lamborghini-for-once-in-lifetime-test-drive/[/url]

The URL is a bit ironic…

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;381751][url]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/30/new-york-teen-dies-taking-lamborghini-for-once-in-lifetime-test-drive/[/url]

The URL is a bit ironic…[/QUOTE]

An early-life one-item bucket list, mayhap?

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Caught a TV ad for Public Storage just now, advertising $1 first-month teaser rates for storing your stuff with them. Get this - their official trademarked slogan is
[i]
"We'll treat your stuff like it's our stuff."
[/i]
Hmmm...

PS is ok, their slogan notwithstanding.

I had to move all my stuff to storage three years ago - between the townhouse lease end and the closing on my home. Used PS, and I did pay just a few bucks for the largest unit they had for the three weeks that I needed.

Nothing happened to our/[I]their[/I] stuff. ;-)
I packed the whole unit wall to wall and to the sliding door with our crap. Maybe that helped. :truck:Nobody slept in it when we came back.

[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2f1mg3/nurses_of_reddit_whats_the_craziest_thing_youve[/url]

*whistles*

[QUOTE=rogue;381745][URL="http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/12-common-words-that-will-boost-your-scrabble-score"]12 Common Words That Will Boost Your Scrabble Score[/URL][/QUOTE]

Would the Brits here accept all those "*.ize" words as legit, or correctly spelled? :sirrobin::lol:

[QUOTE=kladner;381788]Would the Brits here accept all those "*.ize" words as legit, or correctly spelled? :sirrobin::lol:[/QUOTE] There are (at least) two separate questions here. First is acceptability in the game of Scrabble. There the Brits have no real choice. If the word is in the standard reference used it is acceptable, otherwise it is not. Note that the US uses a different standard for English-language Scrabble from the rest of the world so players in international competitions have to be aware of which standard they must obey.

The other is acceptability in general written communication. As far as I am concerned, they are acceptable. There again, I'm an Oxford man. The [i]OED[i] generally prefers -ize, especially for those words derived ultimately from Greek. It, and other decent dictionaries, give bothe -ise and -ize suffices where they have been used sufficiently often.