Not that silly an example. We had music playing in church during our wedding. I suppose, technically, that was a breach of someone's copyright. Funny that no-one from the church or congregation went to trouble of making sure we had all the paperwork in order to "allow" us to play our own CDs.
I agree that a wrongful accusation resulting in a court case may lose me my job and potentially my house. I don't expect my wife to divorce me however, I beleive she trusts me enough that if I say I didn't do it, she would accept that. Even if found guilty, I believe she would stick by me.
I mean Coke = generic cola, not generic soft drink. Nobody would call anything but cola type drinks Coke in UK. Plaster is universally a "small piece of sticking plaster with absorbant middle" in UK. Band-Aid in your words, I believe. Bin is used for anything from paper basket to industrial size waste container in Britain. Dumpster, nor any equaivalent, just isn't in the language.
I agree on all counts I think. It annoys me that a few people think that Gatso = generic speed camera. I don't think it is totally genericized as only a few people do this. My wife uses Ribena generically, I do not. I too distinguish between Philips and Pozidrive. I think most people do not though. the proof is in the pudding since, as I said earlier, there are many I didn't know that are/were trademarks - they are truly genericized. (If genericized is a word).
I knew I had fanned the flames. Yes, I missed the really obvious biro. Jeep I agree, though I think it is falling out of use now. Some of the ones on the Wikipedia list I find astonishing though. Someone can trademark Plasterboard for a board made of plaster? Still I think less than 10% of those on the Wikipedia list are used *commonly* in UK. I speculate we use trademarks for generic products less than Americans.
Then I stand corrected. I do, however, think it is a common British belief that Americans call jam jelly. Possibly that jam is much more common in UK than jelly and perhaps a lot of British people call jelly jam.
Yes. In Britain we use the verb hoover almost always in stead of "vacuum". Some people simply use "sweep". We also, like everyone else, use coke to mean generic cola. But we use photocopy/photocopier and almost never Xerox. We use a plaster and never a Band-Aid. We certainly don't have dumpsters, only bins. We don't use the word Kleenex, we call them tissues. Jell-O is, erm, jelly (your jelly is jam, except when smooth and then its jelly!). Amusingly a news reporter this morning got into a mess when she tried to avoid a proprietry name for a handheld gaming system: "A mother was sure her two small boys would be able to take their (pause) playboys onboard their plane". In fact, apart from Hoover and Coke I think we generally don't use brand names. I await the many corrections.
But this is an object. It will be called "a wii", "my wii", "your wii". etc. That's not how the word "we" is used and as such it doesn't make me think 1st person plural; it makes me think "a piss", "a slash", "a leak", "a whatever else you call the act of relieving ones' bladder".
Or he didn't run, but the police go around asking people if they saw someone run. They say they did, so police claim eye-witnesses saw someone running who therefore must be a terrorist.
It turns out that the police ran. The police jumped barriers.
Still, I'm glad that couldn't happen.
No problem at all. Many, many region free players are available in major high street shops (including Sony), lesser hight street shops (Richer Sounds), supermarkets and online. If you are concerned there are many web sites which list capabilities of virtually every player out there and with reviews. Or you could pop into your local Co-Op and buy the 30 quid DVD player with "Region-Free" in big letters written on it. Well this is in UK, maybe different elsewhere, of course.
It seems (to me) that this story a bit overblown. The use of combinations of these words will be prohibited if they imply an association between The London Olympics and the the goods/service being advertised or the provider of such goods or services. Now the lawyers may claim that me putting an advert in my pub: "Live Olympics on Big Screen TV" is suggesting an association between me and the Olympics; I would say that is a very hard claim to make.
On the other hand there is lots of reference to how the Home Secretary shall act to comply with "The Host City Contract". Making laws to comply with a contract rather than vice-versa seems wholly immoral.
I'll add my weight to all the "England" rants. Why have they all been modded down? It really isn't right to refer to the UK as a whole as England. No-one ever does in the UK. The poster who made the comment about Texas is making a fair point.
UK, Britain, or Great Britain please.
I am English BTW.
Stonehenge wasn't built by Druids. It was built thousands of years earlier.
"The Druids" were not even a race, nor even religious sect as many believe. They were just one of the three learned groups in some Celtic cultures. (Another of the groups was the Bards who were expert in poetry, the arts, etc.; they are still honoured in Welsh Eisteddfords). They existed long after Stonehenge was completed and had only slightly less insight into its purpose than us.
Possibly. But there was also a six(?)-part TV series "Children of the Stones" set in Avebury. Very wierd, basically anyone who went to the village became a mad pagan involved in some 1000 year cycle of power.
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Just one point. Freeview does have 7-day EPG now.
My Panasonic digital TV sees the full 7-days and I can schedule recordings from the EPG to my VCR!
Older boxes may not have the ability to see the new EPG. I do have an ancient OnDigital box which can not see the EPG.
The item's site seems to state that it is designed as an aid for visitors. ie. it seems to me it is designed as a kind of electronic, position aware, guidebook for tourist sites. Not a device geared towards hiking, etc. The 6 hour battery life would therefore seem quite adequate.
However he still has to pay money for his SKY package, the channels of which (SKY One, Sky Sports, etc.) show adverts, and indeed banners and other annoying screen garbage (giant red dot). For example half time in a Super League game is 20 mins, compared to 10 mins in years gone by, and even zero. Most of half time is adverts.
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But you don't also write your address, national insurance number and family members names, etc. on the back of the cheque. I hope.
You won't have to pay the licence fee. It isn't installed.
But more people in the *UK* voted for Labour than for Conservative. The UK parliament is not just decided on who has most votes in England.
Not that silly an example. We had music playing in church during our wedding. I suppose, technically, that was a breach of someone's copyright. Funny that no-one from the church or congregation went to trouble of making sure we had all the paperwork in order to "allow" us to play our own CDs.
I agree that a wrongful accusation resulting in a court case may lose me my job and potentially my house. I don't expect my wife to divorce me however, I beleive she trusts me enough that if I say I didn't do it, she would accept that. Even if found guilty, I believe she would stick by me.
I mean Coke = generic cola, not generic soft drink. Nobody would call anything but cola type drinks Coke in UK. Plaster is universally a "small piece of sticking plaster with absorbant middle" in UK. Band-Aid in your words, I believe. Bin is used for anything from paper basket to industrial size waste container in Britain. Dumpster, nor any equaivalent, just isn't in the language.
I agree on all counts I think. It annoys me that a few people think that Gatso = generic speed camera. I don't think it is totally genericized as only a few people do this. My wife uses Ribena generically, I do not. I too distinguish between Philips and Pozidrive. I think most people do not though. the proof is in the pudding since, as I said earlier, there are many I didn't know that are/were trademarks - they are truly genericized. (If genericized is a word).
I knew I had fanned the flames. Yes, I missed the really obvious biro. Jeep I agree, though I think it is falling out of use now. Some of the ones on the Wikipedia list I find astonishing though. Someone can trademark Plasterboard for a board made of plaster? Still I think less than 10% of those on the Wikipedia list are used *commonly* in UK. I speculate we use trademarks for generic products less than Americans.
Then I stand corrected. I do, however, think it is a common British belief that Americans call jam jelly. Possibly that jam is much more common in UK than jelly and perhaps a lot of British people call jelly jam.
Sorry to reply to myself, but of course we have Velcro. There are very many that I would never have guessed were trademarks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_g enericized_trademarks
and I suspect most people wouldn't have guessed either.
Yes. In Britain we use the verb hoover almost always in stead of "vacuum". Some people simply use "sweep". We also, like everyone else, use coke to mean generic cola. But we use photocopy/photocopier and almost never Xerox. We use a plaster and never a Band-Aid. We certainly don't have dumpsters, only bins. We don't use the word Kleenex, we call them tissues. Jell-O is, erm, jelly (your jelly is jam, except when smooth and then its jelly!). Amusingly a news reporter this morning got into a mess when she tried to avoid a proprietry name for a handheld gaming system: "A mother was sure her two small boys would be able to take their (pause) playboys onboard their plane". In fact, apart from Hoover and Coke I think we generally don't use brand names. I await the many corrections.
But this is an object. It will be called "a wii", "my wii", "your wii". etc. That's not how the word "we" is used and as such it doesn't make me think 1st person plural; it makes me think "a piss", "a slash", "a leak", "a whatever else you call the act of relieving ones' bladder".
Or he didn't run, but the police go around asking people if they saw someone run. They say they did, so police claim eye-witnesses saw someone running who therefore must be a terrorist. It turns out that the police ran. The police jumped barriers. Still, I'm glad that couldn't happen.
The same size and the same colour.
No problem at all. Many, many region free players are available in major high street shops (including Sony), lesser hight street shops (Richer Sounds), supermarkets and online. If you are concerned there are many web sites which list capabilities of virtually every player out there and with reviews. Or you could pop into your local Co-Op and buy the 30 quid DVD player with "Region-Free" in big letters written on it. Well this is in UK, maybe different elsewhere, of course.
It seems (to me) that this story a bit overblown. The use of combinations of these words will be prohibited if they imply an association between The London Olympics and the the goods/service being advertised or the provider of such goods or services. Now the lawyers may claim that me putting an advert in my pub: "Live Olympics on Big Screen TV" is suggesting an association between me and the Olympics; I would say that is a very hard claim to make. On the other hand there is lots of reference to how the Home Secretary shall act to comply with "The Host City Contract". Making laws to comply with a contract rather than vice-versa seems wholly immoral.
I'll add my weight to all the "England" rants. Why have they all been modded down? It really isn't right to refer to the UK as a whole as England. No-one ever does in the UK. The poster who made the comment about Texas is making a fair point. UK, Britain, or Great Britain please. I am English BTW.
Stonehenge wasn't built by Druids. It was built thousands of years earlier. "The Druids" were not even a race, nor even religious sect as many believe. They were just one of the three learned groups in some Celtic cultures. (Another of the groups was the Bards who were expert in poetry, the arts, etc.; they are still honoured in Welsh Eisteddfords). They existed long after Stonehenge was completed and had only slightly less insight into its purpose than us.
Possibly. But there was also a six(?)-part TV series "Children of the Stones" set in Avebury. Very wierd, basically anyone who went to the village became a mad pagan involved in some 1000 year cycle of power.
Just one point. Freeview does have 7-day EPG now. My Panasonic digital TV sees the full 7-days and I can schedule recordings from the EPG to my VCR! Older boxes may not have the ability to see the new EPG. I do have an ancient OnDigital box which can not see the EPG.
The item's site seems to state that it is designed as an aid for visitors. ie. it seems to me it is designed as a kind of electronic, position aware, guidebook for tourist sites. Not a device geared towards hiking, etc. The 6 hour battery life would therefore seem quite adequate.
Well, the vast majority of people in the UK (maybe all of Europe) use gear shifts and clutches. Automatics are quite uncommon.
However he still has to pay money for his SKY package, the channels of which (SKY One, Sky Sports, etc.) show adverts, and indeed banners and other annoying screen garbage (giant red dot). For example half time in a Super League game is 20 mins, compared to 10 mins in years gone by, and even zero. Most of half time is adverts.
- PHP as pee aitch pee
- HTML as aitch tee em el
There is no "rule" that it is pronounced "haitch" under any circumstances. You do that if you want, but don't claim it as a rule.Further, most people, I believe, would say:
- An HDTV
- A hotel
- An heir
- An historic day
The latter two are in disagreement with most other words.ADSL? No cable TV where I live, so ADSL over phone line is the only viable broadband option.