EQUIDAE
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What happened to the OP? Why are they greyed out?
Manege not menage
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Birker2020
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Menage means household.
Manege means arena for riding horses.
If you can't manage manege, pleeeeease say arena, if only to stop the French from wetting themselves laughing at us.
Sorry guilty. Also guilty of saying shed instead of sked for schedule.
Notimetoride
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This is the funniest thread I've seen in a long time. Tho I put a post on here yonks ago asking why Northerners call it a sand paddock (especially when it's not sand) and not one person knew what I was in about. I looked a right plonker. But I know they are called sand paddocks up t'North as I'm a northerner from sunny lancs, now living in wilts. No one here ever calls them sand paddocks.
milliepops
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good heavens, admin has dragged up a thread that mentions Franch. I thought that was a forbidden word these days 
EQUIDAE
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When the ground is particularly clay-ee (what is the correct term?) some land owners put a thick layer of sand on top and then seed it with grass. It drains brilliantly and turns useless ground into great grazing. It's expensive but stops the ground getting too boggy when it is wet.
Hence the term - sand paddock.
ester
Not slacking multitasking
good heavens, admin has dragged up a thread that mentions Franch. I thought that was a forbidden word these days
We've got enough confusion round here without admin dragging up 4 year old threads from users no longer here!
Annagain
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I think the Franch thread coincided with a time when work was busy and I couldn't come on here. I've seen references to it and knew what it was about, but never the actual thread. I never realised Franch was a spelling mistake, I thought it was some odd name for the 'charity' Every day's a school day
Tiddlypom
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Franch must have been before my time on HHO. I clearly missed an epic thread, as it keeps on being mentioned in despatches .
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AmieeT
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As its nit picking, isn't there an accent above one of the vowels?
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
I believe that the first 'e' should have a grave accent, so it's manège.
It's a helluva lot easier to call it a school or an arena!
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D66
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does the resurrection of this thread mean that CP can come back?
Annagain
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Yes - although I wasn't sure what "l'accent grave" was in English, I only knew the term in French and Welsh. I've had a strange education which means I struggle with certain terms in English - grammatical, mathematical and scientific ones in particular!
I do a lot of term avoiding as a result so agree that school or arena is much easier.
fburton
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But it is pronounced 'shed' in British English. 'Sked' is USan.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/schedule
Casey76
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And just to confuse things further a manège is a covered or indoor school, while a "carrière" is an outdoor school
jirist
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And just to confuse things further a manège is a covered or indoor school, while a "carrière" is an outdoor school
Yes, it is right !
"Manège", in France it is an indoor school.
For an outdoor school, we use "Carrière" usually.
And for people who say "who cares", if you are not able to use properly french words, just don't use it.
French people, usually, try to do a massive effort to speak a proper english with you. (Personaly, i ask british people to correct me if i say or spell something wrong).
So if you know that a word is wrong in an other language but you keep using it as you want ..... Just sounds like you don't care about anything else than yourself .... Which is really a pity.
Anyway, ...! I live in the Midlands and, I use "Arena"!
Nicnac
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I bl00dy hope so - this place is like death not even warmed up so a bit of Franch, a soupcon of menage a trois coupled with wanton morags and tupping wouldn't go amiss.
Really Fatty? Bringing up a 6 year old thread started by a banned user just to promote some silly article on H&H? Poor; very poor.
MotherOfChickens
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do you think that they are not here?
case895
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I always think of a threesome (menage a trois).
EQUIDAE
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Was it CP that gave updates of her dating escapades? Fit farrier and the like? How come she got banned?
katherine1975
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I saw an advert the other day for a Menarge lol
Sugar_and_Spice
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that was starzaan and she's not banned AFAIK
malaprop
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cptrayes. I wondered how long I'd have to wait to find someone like you who knows the difference. The worst offenders are the Estate Agents especially on Internet. Had a great urge to contact one and inquire if the Menage had room enough for three adults who required at least a separate annexe for me and my hubby now retd and my daughter and our grand children.Not for trois but for sept. and a manege for horses too if possible. Wonder what the replies would be? .Even decades ago when I worked in our Council's Land Charges Dept. doing searches for solicitors etc when property was sold I would see descriptions for planning applications for Menages!!The mind boggled.Thats when I looked up a French dictionary to make certain. The French do despair as I asked one what the correct way to say 'Decor'!! was. I knew it was neither Deecor nor Daycor. but Deckor!! as I like to watch 'Escape to the Country on the Beeb. Wonder if all those Lexographers? will now inform us that the meaning of Menage has changed in English Dictionaries as the word 'Gay' has. Heard a true story about a man whose surname was the latter. His Boss announced. " Is there a Gay here? to which came the reply, " I'm Gay", with ensuing hearty laughter much to his embarrassment.
popsdosh
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Too true could do with several exes back as this forum is as dull as ditch water nowadays . Maybe like several of us she may not want too. I have recently returned after several months sabbatical ( not enforced but close to) and it has got worse . I try my best but im not really into matchy matchy and all that.
By the way Equidae anybody who gets involved with a farrier deserves everything that comes to them
,They will always be bottom of the shoeing list also.
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Princess16
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Dry Rot
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Oh, for goodness sake!
We are British and speak English which is a living language.
Call it a MANAGE and be done with it! Haven't we enough foreign stuff to put up with, what with the EU and the USA?
How many foreign words have been anglesised (note: no American 'z')? And how much of our language has been corrupted, by Americanisation for another? Even the spell checkers do it, even when we specifically request European English!
Time to get our own back, I'd say. So the French don't like it. Tough!
We are British and speak English which is a living language.
Call it a MANAGE and be done with it! Haven't we enough foreign stuff to put up with, what with the EU and the USA?
How many foreign words have been anglesised (note: no American 'z')? And how much of our language has been corrupted, by Americanisation for another? Even the spell checkers do it, even when we specifically request European English!
Time to get our own back, I'd say. So the French don't like it. Tough!
eggs
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Or just call it a school !!
fburton
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Discusting! :frown3:
sarcasm_queen
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Manège. End of.
Casey76
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How extremely close minded Dry Rot.
btw, the use of "-ize" is not an Americanisation, and is correct English in some forms. i.e. if the root word is from Greek or Latin, then the -ize is correct; if the root word is French then -ise is correct.
btw, the use of "-ize" is not an Americanisation, and is correct English in some forms. i.e. if the root word is from Greek or Latin, then the -ize is correct; if the root word is French then -ise is correct.