Has Anyone A Copy Of 'Fowler's Dictionary Of Modern English Usage' To Hand?

[sandyRoe]

Is 's***hole' not more of a word to describe a place rather than a person?

[ToraToraTora]

a place, like Stockton on Tees for example. A person would be a S***bag.

[douglas9401]

It can be either, like 'shambles'.

[Ellipsis]

The honourable Cleverly said something dishonourable and then lied about it ...

[Peter Pedant]

I DO have Fowler

no he doesnt mention A==hole - and yes, I agree it is a place and not a person

toponymy - the eternal city, serenissima, 

metaphor where a word replaces the name of a city

( Get back to reading Mass in your Missal, you naughty oy)

[Peter Pedant]

ellipsis

that is ellipsis for an MP ! haw haw haw

( word replaced by a phrase)

[Tilly2]

I have a Fowler's but it's upstairs and I can't be bothered to go and get it. I'll have a look later.

 

[Tilly2]

My take on this would be that a place would be a s***hole and a person would be a s***.

[douglas9401]

"Display of superior knowledge is as great a vulgarity as display of superior wealth—greater indeed, inasmuch as knowledge should tend more definitely than wealth towards discretion and good manners."

As should the possession of the guide? 😏

[Peter Pedant]

I see no one of superior knowledge

[sandyRoe]

Douglas has a copy, too, judging from that quote.  ;-)

[brainiac]

I think a person can be a s***, but not a s***hole.   He/she may well live in one, though.

[Hopkirk]

I've never been to Stockton. What's it like?

[sandyRoe]

I don't know it but I've a feeling it couldn't be described as the Venice of the north.

[Peter Pedant]

My father when a POW was told he was gonna be moved. The nearest city said the guard was the a+++hole of Germany ( 1941)