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Previously on "There, their, they're"

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  • Archangel
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    My grade a English language o level stood me in good stead. I got 3/10. But really wgaf. Oh, I do

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  • tractor
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    7/10 but one was a history question so it doesn't count
    History cannot count as it is inanimate.

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  • d000hg
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    7/10 but one was a history question so it doesn't count

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  • tractor
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    ...

    So after all these years of conning the taxpayer, we find that the NHS simply misplaces a comma to change the gender but charges a fortune for repeated operations that are not actually carried out?

    Shameful

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  • ctdctd
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    6/10

    And rather annoyingly, my Kiwi relatives scored better

    One admitted Googling though!

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  • barrydidit
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    5 for me. Quite shocking. The sat/sitting thing i only got right through years spent listening to Terry Wogan being pedantic on that very point.

    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
    9 out of 10 for me, although a couple were semi-educated guesses.
    All my guesses are semi-educated . Good test though!

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
    Aye, it was Hilary I got wrong. I expect a bloke called Hilary is used to being mistaken for a woman.
    Hillarious

    I did not go past that question because I've got no time for such boring sad tulip on Friday night.


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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by Bacchus View Post
    9/10 too

    but I confess that I guessed the gerund!

    Hilary will never speak to me again though (unless he has the op )
    Aye, it was Hilary I got wrong. I expect a bloke called Hilary is used to being mistaken for a woman.

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  • Bacchus
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    9/10 too

    but I confess that I guessed the gerund!

    Hilary will never speak to me again though (unless he has the op )

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  • amcdonald
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    6/10 which ok for guessing considering I was never taught the rules

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    My English butler got 10/10 - I'll send chaffeur to check hows' the cook done it
    Sofa so good.

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  • AtW
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    My English butler got 10/10 - I'll send chaffeur to check hows' the cook done it

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
    9.5 shirley
    Of course in retrospect we may both have it wrong.

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  • mudskipper
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    Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
    Use an EBT and you'll get 9/10.
    9.5 shirley

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    7/10

    That was quite taxing.
    Use an EBT and you'll get 9/10.

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