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Originally Posted by rbruce1314
As a Brit and an ex- (grammar school) teacher I've been watching this thread drift with some fun! HarryT is also a brit, so, although I'm not sure about his confusion with 'second-to-last', let me demonstrate the answer with my favourite "confuser", 'second to none'.
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Appreciate your thoughts but they are inconsequential as you and Harry and all other Brits will be leaving this forum shortly.
Why? You ask. Because of Brexit. When you voted out of the European Union you were also opting out of MobileRead. After all, the founder of MobileRead is Swiss so you have to go.
Shoot, I didn't think you'd fall for that. Oh well, at least, given your background, you might keep trying to sort out the English language. A very interesting book on the subject, by the way, is
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson.