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Thread #162185 Message #3880649
Posted By: Steve Shaw
06-Oct-17 - 11:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Essence of England
Subject: RE: BS: The Essence of England
"Cut-price" requires a hyphen. Dearie me, Nigel. Cut-price is a perfectly good synonym of cheap or bargain. It's widely used even when an actual price reduction is not indicated. I've told you about being too literal before, haven't I. We are generally typing fairly informal English here, not legalese. I'm not going to be describing a bottle of wine that cost nearly ten quid as cut-price. My mates would think I'd won the lottery. I'll call my £4.60 bottle of Rioja cut-price even when Sainsbury's haven't reduced the price. They have clearly pared the shelf price to the bone in order to sell me a good bottle of red (and it is good) for under a fiver. Now had you been in my class at school I'd have sent you to Special Needs and called in the educational psychologist, concerned at your habit of taking things too literally. What's that condition called now...