Picotin - new French restaurant, excellent

[BoD]

and chips with mayo..

[cromasaig]

Chips with mayo is a fine, fine thing, with one caveat: both elements need to be home made.

Or is that two caveats? And what's the plural of caveat anyway? Agh, I've backed myself into pedants corner.

Anyway, I'm a fan of The French Stall.

[Scrummy Mummy]

Chips with mayo is a fine, fine thing, with one caveat: both elements need to be home made.

Or is that two caveats? And what's the plural of caveat anyway? Agh, I've backed myself into pedants corner.

Anyway, I'm a fan of The French Stall.

As a fellow pedant I've just looked it up. It doesn't say anything in my dictionary so I assume it's caveats. If we ever meet in RL, will we be wincing every time the other uses bad grammar?

I like the French Stall too, and they're very good with mini-Scummy if you decide to take your two along.

[cromasaig]

Yep, that's the problem with admitting it. It's like hanging a sign round your neck that says "Scan everything I say/write and kick me around for my errors". (Obviously it would be quite a big sign.)

I've just noticed that I skipped an apostrophe in pedant's corner. Or should it be pedants' corner? How many pedants can fit in one corner? Does it need initial capitals?



That way madness lies.

[BoD]

Pedants are usually quite small, so "pedants'" seems correct unless you are talking about a particular pedant

The English noun Caveat comes from the Latin Caveat "let him beware" - third person subjunctive (yes I had to look that up) of caveo, cavere etc. So, I guess that Caveats is correct

[BFG]

You can have large pedants too.

Exhibit 1: BFG...

[canuck]

can we hang you by the neck, oh no wait that around the neck

[BoD]

I think he would like to be hung/hanged in the manner usually reserved for donkeys

[canuck]

he's hung like a donkey?

[BoD]

I was merely speculating on his preferences, not on his actual endowment

[canuck]

are you saying he would like to be hung like a donkey? that's presupposing something isn't it?

[BoD]

It presupposes that I, unlike you perhaps, have no knowledge as to his actual levels of equipment

[canuck]

I know nothing

[BoD]

Yes, and BFG eees hamster

[BFG]

Modesty prevents me from commenting...

[BoD]

Though it might explain obsession with a little horse

[BFG]

What little horse? What? What?