There are many variations that English and American speakers use, and each expression means slightly different things. Expressions are also context relevant #1 Good Morning/afternoon/evening The earliest known use of the phrase good morning is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for good morning is from around 1450, in Sege Melayne. good morning is formed within...
Developing this website And now some therapy for me and my website, this is the one you are now reading. I'm trying to make this website a model of good practice and accessibility. I have decided to have monthly meetings with my day-to-day service provider. This is beneficial for many reasons or so I have found. As I go along I notice small items that do not work as well as I would like to see....
A new church experience I left early for my 10:30 am service and stopped off at Porky's which is my ultimate working men's class cafe hoping to have a coffee and a snack or two but when I arrived, the place was full. To the Methodist Church as I entered at 10:20, 10 minutes before the service, there were one or two people sitting in the church. The final number at the start of the service was 12...
The satisfaction of advance planning If there's one thing I enjoy, it is advance planning. I make most of my plans for the main spine of my activities weeks before the event and that includes imagining what might go wrong and making corrections before I ever set foot on public transport or step in my car. I'm going to visit my sister in Croydon, London, in April and today is the time for booking...
Morning coffee at Paulton All Saints What a lovely day. Blue sky and sun. 11 degrees C. To the coffee morning at all Saints Paulton where I have not been for some time. I met a lady whose son is called Chris who is currently teaching at a very difficult class in a school in Frome. He does not seem to do any actual teaching. He spends his time explaining that you have to listen to the teacher,...
controversy "disputation, debate, prolonged agitation of contrary opinions," late 14c., from Old French controversie "quarrel, disagreement" or directly from Latin controversia "a turning against; contention, quarrel, dispute," from controversus "turned in an opposite direction, disputed, turned against," from contra "against" (see contra (prep., adv.)) + versus "turned toward or against," past...
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