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I actually meant the latter, but I see the ambiguity! Guess penultimate would have been definitive.
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I'm with you but not everyone is!
Penultimate is unambiguous. Apparently some folks (maybe UK vs US usage - sort of like that first floor vs. ground floor thing) think "second to last" is ambiguous. In any case, I'm glad to have provided a bit of interesting Saturday discussion for everyone ![]() |
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I've never heard "first to last" and only very rarely "second to last."
What I have always heard is "next to last." |
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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'.
One of my brighter pupils always seemed to react strongly when I used the above phrase and eventually he came to me after a lesson and asked why I was being so insulting about "whateveritwas" I was talking about. On asking him to explain, he drew me a chart (he was maths btw) with the following: All > most > lots > some > few > none. - - - - then he added 'second to none' to the right of the lot!!! He really thought that 'second to none' meant 'worse than none' (try it yourselves with "second-to nothing" and see what I mean......) English language is not for the unwary, even the indigenous - no wonder visitors have problems explaining themselves: who knows what other 'direct-opposite' confusions there are - ones we would never even have thought of (viz my example above). Oh well, back to the topic..... Last edited by rbruce1314; 08-07-2016 at 02:07 AM. |
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Look to the Lady (apa The Gyrth Chalice Mystery) is the third in the Albert Campion series by Margery Allingham. It is a US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days. The e-book publisher of these in the US, Ipso, seems to be rotating them through Countdown, but only for a very short time for each one, so grab it fast if you want it. (Note the Ipso titles are only $3.99 not on sale anyway, which is IMO a reasonable price - although the upper edge of my idea of a reasonable price - for classic/famous backlist....)
Also, be cautious - this is one of the titles in the Margery Allingham Box Set 1 that was on sale a while back, so if you bought that, you already have this. And finally, BTW, the link at the end of the blurb for the "previously unpublished Allingham story" is legit, as discussed upthread, and signing up for the newsletter has not gotten me flooded with emails, I only remember two? or three? link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JWM96G6 Spoiler:
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The Siege is a non-series title by Arturo Perez-Reverte, who is also the author of the Captain Alatriste books. I haven't read this one, but I read and really liked The Flanders Panel a while back. Per SYKM, The Siege won the 2014 International Dagger Award, so maybe I'll push it towards the top of my endless TBR list, even though I was a bit unpleasantly taken aback by the comparison to The Da Vinci Code in one of the snippets of review in the blurb. Siege has dropped to $1.99 right now at Kindle US.
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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. |
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Three of Michael Avallone's Ed Noon books are currently free at Amazon UK - all repeats.
(05) The Alarming Clock (07) The Case of the Violent Virgin (20) The Doomsday Bag |
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I had one, but I got the other two.
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