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[shaunbhoy]

Cheese Christmas advent calendar has a slither of your favourite CHEESE behind each window | Daily Mail Online

I think I'd be a bit cheesed off with it by Christmas Eve........

[greenlake]

How about a weed advent calendar....?


ADVENTure Calendar - Dockside Cannabis

[SueEllen]

We already teach French, German and Spanish very commonly. Polish would actually be relevant to more people!

In my school we had Urdu.

Unlike French the lowest grade was a C as there was plenty of opportunity to practise it on local shopkeepers, people's grandmothers etc.

I didn't take it as it clashed with other things but the bits I've learnt have been very useful.

[d000hg]

My idea for an advent calendar is one that looks normal from in front, but each door contains a full-size chocolate bar, end-on. You'd need a clever way to disguise it but you could print the front as a Tardis and it really WOULD be bigger on the inside.

[d000hg]

can't imagine why

Beata Szydlo suggested 'teaching Polish in British schools' to Theresa May | Daily Mail Online

We already teach French, German and Spanish very commonly. Polish would actually be relevant to more people!

[OwlHoot]

Beata Szydlo suggested 'teaching Polish in British schools' to Theresa May

If young people can't even spell English these days, I dread to think what a frightful hash they'd make of Polish

[vetran]

Proof the UK is illiterate.

can't imagine why

Beata Szydlo suggested 'teaching Polish in British schools' to Theresa May | Daily Mail Online

Polish should be taught in British schools, the country's PM tells Theresa May during Brexit talks
Beata Szydlo suggested 'teaching Polish as a language in British schools'
Downing Street is hoping the Polish PM will be an ally at the Brexit talks
Yesterday they laid wreaths at the Polish War Memorial near RAF Northolt

[BrilloPad]

It has the highest circulation, its the voice of the nation.You may not like its diction.

Proof the UK is illiterate.

[OwlHoot]

I see the Mail Online now regard their readers with such absolute contempt that they don't even bother employing a sub-editor, who could have pointed out to the unpaid intern churning out this crap that "slither" and "sliver" are not the same word

Unless the slivers of cheese melt and slither out of the calendar!

[NickFitz]

And having sullied my browser by following the link, I see that somebody has stepped in and changed it to "a piece of" in the headline - though the incorrect "slither" remains in the URL, so they're technically incompetent too.

[NickFitz]

Hmm

unable to read or write.
versus
the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

I prefer my choice of words.

You could of gone with incompetence or carelessness but its clear the Wail can read & write though possibly not very well.

Fair enough, but there's no question of choice. They used the wrong word, a word that doesn't have the meaning they intended. This means they can't write competently, which is a pretty drastic failing when their business is writing.

[sal]

Would take quite a bit of space in the fridge for what it is.

[vetran]

Nothing to do with diction in this case: it's illiterate.

slither
verb [ I usually + adv/prep ] UK /ˈslɪð.ər/ US /ˈslɪð.ɚ/

(of bodies) to move easily and quickly across a surface while twisting or curving:
She watched the snake slither away.


sliver
noun [ C ] UK /ˈslɪv.ər/ US /ˈslɪv.ɚ/ formal

a very small, thin piece of something, usually broken off something larger:
a sliver of glass
Just a sliver of cake for me, please - I shouldn't really be having any.

Hmm

unable to read or write.
versus
the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

I prefer my choice of words.

You could of gone with incompetence or carelessness but its clear the Wail can read & write though possibly not very well.

[barrydidit]

I see the Mail Online now regard their readers with such absolute contempt that they don't even bother employing a sub-editor, who could have pointed out to the unpaid intern churning out this crap that "slither" and "sliver" are not the same word

I think you asp too much.

[NickFitz]

It has the highest circulation, its the voice of the nation.You may not like its diction.

Nothing to do with diction in this case: it's illiterate.

slither
verb [ I usually + adv/prep ] UK /ˈslɪð.ər/ US /ˈslɪð.ɚ/

(of bodies) to move easily and quickly across a surface while twisting or curving:
She watched the snake slither away.


sliver
noun [ C ] UK /ˈslɪv.ər/ US /ˈslɪv.ɚ/ formal

a very small, thin piece of something, usually broken off something larger:
a sliver of glass
Just a sliver of cake for me, please - I shouldn't really be having any.