annoying turns of phrase

[Nil Satis]

Your example reminds me of that old chestnut: think of a grammatically correct sentence with the word "had" nine times in a row in it...

Here's one with 11:

"James, while John had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had a better effect on the teacher."

and another with 12:

"John, where Jim had had "had" had had "had had." "Had had" had had "had" written next to it in the margin as a correction."

[grecian]

Your example reminds me of that old chestnut: think of a grammatically correct sentence with the word "had" nine times in a row in it...

Here's one with 11:

"James, while John had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had a better effect on the teacher."

and another with 12:

"John, where Jim had had "had" had had "had had." "Had had" had had "had" written next to it in the margin as a correction."

Ah yes, I was wrong. Could you then say:

Nil Satis, where Grecian had had:

"... had had "had had", had had "had". "Had" had..."

had had

"... had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had "had "had"...".

"... had had "had had", had had "had". "Had" had..." had had "... had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had "had "had"..." written next to it as a correction.

[Nil Satis]

In theory the word 'Buffalo' can appear n times consecutively and always make a grammatical sentence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_bu ... lo_buffalo

[JG]

Hold on, 'old on, ''ld on, good one, hold on.

Here we go.

"That's an awful stutter you have there. How long have you had it for?"

"I've had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had had it for a few days now."

[Istenem]

[quote="professor yaffle"]
this is all getting rather silly]

[roberto la vigna]

'How are you doing?'

- Good

:x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

Unfortunately, it seems that everybody has become infected with this bugger.

[dmac]

xyz

[harry2]

Spell checker and grammar checkers should be compulsory on all message boards and especially mobile phones. A little draconian perhaps, but may prevent this government churning out kids that can't read and write proprerly after eleven years of education.

[Matt Vinyl]

Dmac: Brilliant!

[aaamusements.co.uk]

My pet hate is people pronouncing the letter H (aitch) as HAYCH.

It just gets me. And people are now insisting they are correct: because they have been told "haych" at school!
:x

[Properpro]

At the end of the day, have we finished with this thread?

[GaryChandler]

How many of you lot got bullied at school then?

[redgamer]

i got bullyed at scholl

[mr lugsy]

you were bullied whilst visiting a womens shoe makers?

[betchrider]

you were bullied whilst visiting a womens shoe makers?

LOL