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: gordond (gordond) wrote,
2006-02-18 23:13:00

gordond
gordond
2006-02-18 23:13:00

Mood: cheerful

Only....

Only is one of my favourite words of late - at least in the British English sense - I don't know how commonly this use is but it is quite spiffy. Perhaps Mark can enlighten us as to how it came to be used like this.

Only - except that. Used to bring up a contrary point.

Example :

Mark - Let's go out to the chippy today for lunch.
Gordon - I'd like to say okay, only we've gone to chippy every day this last week.

It's just not used that way in the states. Quite interesting.

Fasts don't seem to ever be

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The last time I wrote in this journal, Malka was a bit more than a year old.

I don't even know where to start. Malka is two, Chaim is five and a half, and I'm listening to The Archers on BBC Radio 4. True story.
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I often make up songs. They often take music from actual songs and then have made up lyrics that usually make me laugh. This is important as I am…

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Only....

Fasts don't seem to ever be

The last time I wrote in this journal, Malka was a bit more than a year old.

making up songs

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