To be fair, there is a place and a time for quibbling, and that is on pb, all the time. (View Post)

Yes, it does. My mother is Scottish. Does that make me a bit Scottish? Arguably. In which case, if I'm 'a bit Scottish', I'm less English than someone whise parents are both Engli… (View Post)

A pedant notes: I don’t think that’s what ‘born and bred’ means. If you were born and bred somewhere, not only were you born there, but your parents and grandparents and great grandparents were from … (View Post)

Well I take it back. Surely 'bred' is redundant then? I maintain that my meaning OUGHT to be the correct one. Because otherwise that is an interesting circumstance we have no pithy phrase f… (View Post)

I'm not trying to disagree with you! Please consider yourself agreed with, and certainly not humiliated. I have no issue with your point - I just wish 'born and bred' was used to mean … (View Post)