Cherries....

Thanks RR. For the record it was diabetes insipidus, not something we would expect on a ship but it ended well.

And I do believe that correct grammar is important otherwise why bother with schools? Yes, going to school is just an annoyance for many kids who would rather be ignorant but they will probably be people that you would rather avoid.

Nuffin against general education.........it's just people trying to set rules for the language. it's a language for effs sake, people express themselves differently. And if it works wot the eck. I'll probably now get slaughtered for starting a sentence wiv a conjunction !!

Yes it is a language and should be treasured as such. Uneducated or lazy people express themselves differently for those exact reasons. I paid attention at school. Those who did not have no right to criticise others. Obviously I am unaware of your educational qualifications. as you are no doubt unaware of mine.
There is common sense involved here somewhere but that is a dying art.

RR. Good to know that someone else knows what a conjunction is.

And ???

And if you put an apostrophe at the beginning it can change the word into band,land,rand,sand and wand.

Missed Hand. Strange thing about our language how one of those is pronounced differently. Not quite in the realms of the ..ough words but it is better than speaking French, je pense.

Missed out hand deliberately cos i'm a Londoner and ave an aversion to the letter aitch.

Reminds me of the old one about the sign-writer and the chip shop on the spacing between the words.
"The spacing between between Fish and And and And and Chips should be the same." Spaghetti Conjunction? Grammatically correct but obviously some punctuation required.
Then you get the longest word ( which at one time was Antidisestablishmentarianism ). I expect this has now been surpassed in dictionaries but the longest word is still the one that means Constipation and can go on for ages Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.........