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George Garnett
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« Reply #210 on: 22:40:50, 12-09-2007 »

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« Reply #211 on: 22:42:18, 12-09-2007 »
Lower case 'L', George?

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« Reply #212 on: 22:54:12, 12-09-2007 »
Oh dear. Quite right, Martle. As humble pie is a dish best served hot I have just had a couple of large helpings.
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« Reply #213 on: 22:58:47, 12-09-2007 »
Isn't lowercase ONE word?
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« Reply #214 on: 22:59:35, 12-09-2007 »
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pippahunnechurch.com/humblepie1.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.pippahunnechurch.com/humble_pie_recipe.php&h=338&w=450&sz=100&hl=en&start=21&um=1&tbnid=9Mf1-0jU_gy05M:&tbnh=95&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhumble%2Bpie%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN
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« Reply #215 on: 23:01:18, 12-09-2007 »
Quote from: Chafing Dish on 22:58:47, 12-09-2007
Isn't lowercase ONE word?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule
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« Reply #216 on: 23:11:07, 12-09-2007 »
But as an adjective:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lowercase
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« Reply #217 on: 23:15:28, 12-09-2007 »
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« Reply #218 on: 23:18:25, 12-09-2007 »
Well desported, Chafers! But, in your attmpts to prove the efficacy of 'verbing the noun', I wonder whether you've lowercased your argument to the realms of the tautologous. I do. Well, perhaps I don't really.  Grin It's all a bit lowercase [adj.], isn't it?
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« Reply #219 on: 00:39:26, 13-09-2007 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 21:30:50, 12-09-2007


Three? Only three? I'll take your three and raise you an to get...erm...
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« Reply #220 on: 09:00:17, 13-09-2007 »
NOBODY expects the continuum hypothesis!
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« Reply #221 on: 12:43:46, 14-09-2007 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 09:00:17, 13-09-2007
NOBODY expects the continuum hypothesis!
Oh my; I expect this deserves a captioned photograph.  Big laughs here, olie, all round.
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« Reply #222 on: 14:53:12, 14-09-2007 »
There we go:
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« Reply #223 on: 20:33:50, 14-09-2007 »
Cardinal Zermelo! Cardinal Fraenkel! The RACK!

(Great how google can make one look moderately knowledgeable, no?  Undecided)
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« Reply #224 on: 22:38:11, 15-09-2007 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 20:33:50, 14-09-2007
Cardinal Zermelo! Cardinal Fraenkel! The RACK!

(Great how google can make one look moderately knowledgeable, no?  Undecided)

There was some genius in your first formulation, though, that cannot simply be put down to being an incidental product of googling without further investigation.
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