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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

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"So, what did you get up to today?" I asked Mum.

"I had my hair cut," she said. She didn't say , "I had my haircut" because "haircut" is a noun, and that would not have made sense in this context. She could have said, "I had a haircut", but she chose to go with "I had my hair cut." My mum is good with grammar.

"Oh," I said. "Where was that?"

"That usual place near Sainsbury. That Italian woman does it. You know. That one whose cousin's a double murderer."

At least she said "whose" rather than "who's". And her apostrophes were all correct. Though it is hard to double-check over the phone.

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