correct grammer

[me]

If you were talking about being in a cave in a certail area would you say:

I was in GB under Mendip

I was in GB under the Mendips

I was in GB on Mendip

I was in GB on the Mendips

or should it be Mendip's  as GB is part of, belongs to the Mendip hill or should that be hills

 

I won't even ask about Yorkshire or the Ridings  :doubt:

 

[Alex]

Would "I was in GB in the Mendips" not work?

 

[Les W]

The correct grammar around these parts would be "on Mendip" for pretty much everything...  :tease:

 

[Maj]

The correct grammar around these parts would be "on Mendip" for pretty much everything...  :tease:

So should not another current thread read - Flooding on Mendip - ?
Or is this one of those 'exceptions that proves the rule'?


Maj.

 

[mikem]

But surely we were discussing flooding IN Swildon's (initially at least)

Mike

 

[Les W]

But surely we were discussing flooding IN Swildon's (initially at least)

Mike

Flooding in Swildons on Mendip... 

 

[cap n chris]

Swildon's Hole in flood, under Mendip. Also an a in grammar.

Swildon's is an acceptable shortened form. Swillies should be punishable by summary execution.

 

[Judi Durber]

Why not IN Mendip

and

is it a Hill or are they a range of hills  :-\  (oh dear that implies there is more than one but going out east you do go up and down lots  :doubt: )

 

[AR]

I won't even ask about Yorkshire or the Ridings  :doubt:

Since we're in full flow on pedantry today, I feel it necessary point out that the three Ridings are the constituent parts of  Yorkshire, so there's no place for "or" in it ....

 

[cap n chris]

Mendip Hills (not hill)

 

[TheBitterEnd]

I won't even ask about Yorkshire or the Ridings  :doubt:

's not worth asking about Yorkshire since most of the cave passage is in Westmorland and Lancashire  :kiss2:

 

[Pitlamp]

I won't even ask about Yorkshire or the Ridings  :doubt:

's not worth asking about Yorkshire since most of the cave passage is in Westmorland and Lancashire  :kiss2:

Yay - truth will out! 

Speaking of the Mendip "hills", when I did my first trip there as a youth it was with the Lancashire Caving and Climbing Club. We set off late on Friday and it was about 1-00 a.m. when we finally got there, in a thick fog. We'd no idea where the hut was and ended up just kipping by the side of the road. I'll never forget what a surprise it was to awake on Saurday morning, with the fog all gone - and find it was all flat!

It was only when I later started going there regularly that I discovered the delights of looking out across the Somerset Levels on a cold Autumn morning with Glastonbury Tor like an island in the cloud inversion - absolutely magical.

 

[Stupot]

It should read "I were in GB with a paying client and my 7 children on their first caving trip, on Mendip, in Mendipshire"

Stu.

 

[tony from suffolk]

The correct grammar around these parts would be "on Mendip" for pretty much everything...  :tease:

I think you're right Les. In a Manor of speaking.

 

[Laurie]

Have checked my dickshunery, can't find grammer anywhere. 

 

[mikem]

Why would Grandma be into dick shunery?

Mike

 

[Les W]

Mendip Hills (not hill)

Mendip Hills, for the hills.
Mendip for the area/region/district... 

 

[me]

Mendip Hills, for the hills.
Mendip for the area/region/district...   

aaahhhh so that's it  :bow:

but if we are in a cave are we 'on', 'in' or 'under' the hill,  moor, mountain 

and I wish the spell checker checked the title too  :-[

 

[Les W]

Mendip Hills, for the hills.
Mendip for the area/region/district...   

aaahhhh so that's it  :bow:

but if we are in a cave are we 'on', 'in' or 'under' the hill,  moor, mountain 

But even under the ground you are still on Mendip...  :tease:

 

[TheBitterEnd]

and I wish the spell checker checked the title too  :-[

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        It came with my pea sea
        It plane lee marques four my revue
        Miss steaks aye ken knot sea

        Eye ran this poem threw it
        Your sure reel glad two no
        It's vary polished in it's weigh
        My chequer tolled me sew

        A chequer is a bless sing
        It freeze yew lodes of thyme
        It helps me awl stiles two reed
        And aides mi when aye rime

        To rite with care is quite a feet
        Of witch won should be proud
        And wee mussed dew the best wee can
        Sew flaws are knot aloud

        And now bee cause my spelling
        is checked with such grate flare
        Their are know faults with in my cite
        Of nun eye am a wear

        Each frays come posed up on my screen
        Eye trussed to be a joule
        The chequer poured o'er every word
        To cheque sum spelling rule

        That's why aye brake in two averse
        My righting wants too pleas
        Sow now ewe sea wye aye dew prays
        Such soft wear for pea seas