I'm all for pedantry, but brought up or raised is apparently a meaning, since 1548, according to OED. I'd take it to mean born (for the 'born' part!) and lived for a long time (particularly during fo… (View Post)

We got one of the cat variants a couple of months ago. I was not convinced it would work, but completely and immediately eliminated cat poo from the rubber gravel under our kids' play area (we'll nee… (View Post)

A like seems inappropriate here. I remember you posting about this, there was a lot of damage done by those rules, which probably could have been managed in other ways - people would have accepted a … (View Post)

Hospitals are getting better with stillbirth and child death, I think, although it's still pretty mixed (there's a study just completing on that; I'll provide links to the papers when published). For… (View Post)

Missed opportunity for 'cos' and 'leaf' (hat tip to SiR) in that too :disappointed: "It happened cos we voted leaf, not romaine" (View Post)