"Stewart Hunting Ancient" or "Ancient Hunting Stewart"? The grammar Nazi weighs in...

[davidlpope]

First to pop into my head: "Heir apparent"

Court Martial
Attorney General
Sergeant Major

[MacLowlife]

Court Martial
Attorney General
Sergeant Major

All very good examples, and with no disrespect to UnixKen, they don't remind me so much of my diminished need for a comb and brush as his does.

[unixken]

All very good examples, and with no disrespect to UnixKen, they don't remind me so much of my diminished need for a comb and brush as his does.

I was thinking a Bugs Bunny pun would work, myself. ;)

[TheOfficialBren]

First to pop into my head: "Heir apparent"

Letters Patent

[figheadair]

So totally going off the board, would bending grammar be intentional to give a certain "mystique?" the same way olde spellings are brought back.

Then another possible thought. How would word order go in Gaelic? (I have no knowlege there so this is pure speculation.) Could that have influenced the English usage?

No. No-one in the past would have wanted to buy cloth/clothes that were 'old'. We now have the luxury of too much choice and too much money.

[creagdhubh]

No. No-one in the past would have wanted to buy cloth/clothes that were 'old'. We now have the luxury of too much choice and too much money.

Precisely right, Peter!

[ASinclair]

Hi Barb,

From this picture of the Tartans page of my Clan Chief's website, it appears Clan Sinclair is with you on this.

[ASinclair]

Hi Barb,

Let me try this again with a picture that will, hopefully, be big enough to show the names of the Tartans.

[Germankilter]

And yet it's Fire Department New York (FDNY).

[unixken]

I just booted up another example... "Windows 7 Enterprise"