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I would think it was "express permission" but I have no real idea why other than that it's the way I pronounce it if saying it (which isn't often), and I tend to be of the opinion that I am right about these things.

Please note that I'm in the "another think coming" camp, and invented the word Pertuix, so am possibly not to be trusted.

(xpost, or perhaps I am!)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought "another think coming" turned out to be right.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I think there was some controversy and the consensus was that both were acceptable (except that I disagree with consensus because "another thing coming" is completely fucking wrong and lots of people getting something wrong all the time doesn't make it right by default)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Even if "another think coming" is technically right, it's really wrong.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

LET'S NOT, OKAY!?

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

OH GOD, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(xpost, heh)

― grimly fiendish (simon), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Another thought coming" would be right but doesn't convey the angry-mumness of "another think coming." Tetchy verbal anger = grammar out the window.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I WILL LOCK THIS FUCKER. I MEAN IT.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Roffle. (Maybe I would like to be an ILE mod, now that I think of it.)

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

t/s: specifically vs. pacifically

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

My bugbear = formerly vs formally

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q=%22express+written+consent+of+Major+League+Baseball

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

A cricketing one: how can you describe a batsman playing carefully as a batsman playing 'circumspectly', as many commentators do? If he were playing circumspectly, he'd be looking all around as the ball was delivered, not watching it, getting out, and therefore not playing 'carefully' in the slightest. GRR!!!

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Circumspect: attentive to the consequences of one's behavior.

― ledge (ledge), Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link

This I know because the Bible tells me so!

― ledge (ledge), Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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