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Oakster
Oakster Posts: 6,812
edited June 2009 in Not Sports Related
Why do we need the word galley when kitchen does just fine? Stow & stowage?? Surely store & storage would do?

Oakster (having spent too much time on planes recently)

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,289
    Planes and boats have one set on language, dry land another.
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    isnt galley kitchen a long narrow kitchen? excuse my ignorance
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Planes and boats have one set on language, dry land another.

    I noticed that when the stewardess offered me a bottle of rum & a selection of hard tacks during onboard service...
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    Superflous is another! Why cant we just use unnecessary ?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,289
    [cite]Posted By: Oakster[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Planes and boats have one set on language, dry land another.

    I noticed that when the stewardess offered me a bottle of rum & a selection of hard tacks during onboard service...

    Shame there was no rum, sodomy and the lash but it's your fault for using cheap airlines ; - )
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    [cite]Posted By: Charlton Dan[/cite]Superflousis another! Why cant we just useunnecessary ?

    Do you really need that why in there Dan?
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,905
    Do you really need that why in there Dan?
  • DaveStorry
    DaveStorry Posts: 989
    need why in there Dan ?
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,905
    ?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,289
    Need

    Unneed

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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,504
    Arse and arsehole.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,449
    I disagree. Superfluous is a perfectly good word. It doesn't strictly mean 'unnecessary' either - I would suggest (without looking it up) that the definition os 'superfluous' is 'Serving no purpose' - as opposed to 'unnecessary' which is simply 'that which is not needed'.

    Agree with you though if you actually mean 'superflous' because, well, that isn't even a word.

    :o)
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,504
    edited June 2009
    Superfloss is readily available at most large branches of Walmarts in The United States.
  • vancouveraddick
    vancouveraddick Posts: 1,674
    Millwall & C*nts is another example
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    "Redaction." What's that all about? Everyone's been using it in the last twenty-four hours as if they have used it all their lives. What was wrong with "blacked-out?"
  • MCS
    MCS Posts: 8,404
    [cite]Posted By: Charlton Dan[/cite]Superflousis another! Why cant we just useunnecessary ?

    There it is. Well said that man.

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