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The Sabres have this habit of dusting off the puck before they do anything with it, especially in the defensive zone. When they do that the Canucks close FAST. By delaying the Sabres are actually pressuring themselves, taking away time and space for them to do anything and giving Vancouver a chance to disrupt the Sabres' passes and clears.

Finally a push from the good guys.

Canucks sending the pressure, constant pressure.

The singer Lily Allen was educated at an upper class school but she sings in a mock cockney (mockney) accent. So she sings like that- "dih-int" for didn't, that kind of thing. I thought it refreshing that she didn't adopt the standard "pop music" accent and sang in her own accent, then I found out it's not even her accent. But she's sold a lot of music singing that way so... more power to her, I guess.

Yeah, I didn't want to overcomplicate the example. To whom are you addressing that comment? 😉

Yeah, I heard they were going to tour this summer.

But when people say either one, the intent is the same, regardless of the semantics.

Both have the same meaning. It means you don't care.

At the end they were protecting a 4 goal lead. I don't mind if they Alamo'ed a bit, especially since they didn't allow any goals. Mike Grier, perhaps?

Yeah, he was in my list.

Random quote from the Avs forum on HFBoards: I think we all know what he means.

There are dozens of them. Like @Mango said, Bob Dylan, plus Mark Knoffler, Neil Young, Joe Cocker, etc. Are any of these guys good singers from a technical standpoint? Does it matter? If you like the music you like the music.

It's actually funny in a way: There are all manner of male singers that aren't the best singers but are great entertainers and the world embraces them. But heaven forbid a female singer may be considered mediocre. I could name a ton of male singers that are great singers but not very good singers (you know what I mean). No one cares. The music is good, that's all that matters. But one female singer who maybe doesn't sing like a songbird? Throw shade her way!

See also: Mick Jagger. As a singer I think he's awful but as an entertainer/front man, one of the very best.

3-1 would have been fine, if they'd have won the game in Detroit.

Rich Strike had a 1.25% chance to win (80:1 odds).

On the other hand.....

It's only a matter of time until we delve into pronouns. Nonbinary people will frequently express a preference for they/their. It sounds weird because that's a plural pronoun used to refer to a singular person. Does that person have multiple personalities or what? It never feels right when I use they/their for a single person. The Billy Joel song Allentown makes me cringe: Every child had a pretty good shot To get at least as far as their old man got The switch from singular subject (child) in the first line to the plural pronoun (their) in the second line is just.... well, it's incorrect, right? But English has already traveled down this road. There is something called the Royal We where, when monarchs refers to themselves in first person, will use "we" instead of "I". "What shall We decide?" I think it comes from the fact that the monarch represented the body of the state, the entire country, so using "we" means "the whole country and I". "You" used to be the same way; it was the second-person version of "we." The singular was "thou", the plural was "you." "You" was used to address kings, nobles, aristocrats and... eventually just as a formal greeting, since it sounds more respectful that "thou." Eventually "thou" was dropped altogether and we're left with only the pronoun that originally referred to the plural case. So while it feels odd now, the use of they/their to refer to a singular case is not without precedent.

This one used to bother me too, but the rules have evolved. Fewer generally refers to plural nouns and less refers to collective nouns. But it's now acceptable usage to use less with plural nouns, mostly because many people do it. When half the class moved out of state he had fewer pupils. When half the class moved out of state he had less pupils. <---sounds awful to me but is acceptable.

(They're already too far behind, but maybe the teams ahead will choke more than the Sabres do.)

I watch some YouTube videos on language from time to time. I think accents are pretty interesting. One guy I was watching pointed out words/sounds that British actors playing American characters pronounce in their native accent, so you can tell they're not really American. The first step for a Brit to speak in an American accent is to pronounce the R's the way Americans do, instead of in the non-rhotic style of Received Pronunciation (the English taught to the upper classes). Then there are various vowel shifts. But there are other tells that British actors usually get wrong. There's also the "American Rock and Roll Accent" sung by people all over the world. It sounds American, but it's not really the way people speak in the U.S. if you listen closely. For instance, in Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" he doesn't really sing the R in Born. In a singing voice where a note is held, the R is minimized or even omitted. I could go on, but if you're interested you can find videos about language an accents on YouTube.

She sings better'n I do, innit?