The Draft House
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Just wish he could spell draughtOriginally Posted by hondo
Have you thought he might be being honest and actually means "draft", that is something unfinished, incomplete, a work that is inferior to the final version?
However I'm glad it's not just me that gets irritated by that mispelling, the other particular modern horror that regularly gets up my nose is using "loose" (not tight) when they mean "lose" (mislay or be deprived of).
I think that in American English, all meanings of draft and draught are spelt 'Draft'. So I suppose their name would make sense if they were selling American beers, but I'm not sure that's the case.
At £4.50+ per pint, I'm unlikely to ever find out.
It is indeed an Americanism, I had only ever known the spelling as Draft Horse though, so was a bit bemused as to what the complaints were about. I learn something new every day.
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Absolutely. I suppose it's a logical progression for some, that if beer is given the same reverence as wine then it can be priced accordingly. No doubt some deluded saps will think it bestows some sort of social cachet to pay that much, whilst keeping out the hoi polloi.
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.
Nope, the one I struggle with is center(re) in that I use it daily as part of my coding work, and it only works if you spell it the American way.Please please tell me you do not have "favorites"
I suspect that I always assumed that the horses in question were conscripted and didn't volunteer.
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