(13 Sep 2013, 5:18 pm)eezypeazy wrote I fully understand synonyms.
You don't seem to understand the definition, though.
To force (verb) to cause a person or thing to follow a prescribed or dictated course.
A total lack of a bus does not force anyone to do anything. It merely constrains their available choices. At worst, they must to do something else, but that is not prescribed or dictated.
My local chip shop burned down. I wasn't forced to buy a pizza - I still have the choice of pizza, Chinese, Indian takeaways, or even a Gregg's pasty. I chose to go pizza, but nobody prescribed or dictated what I should do. I wasn't forced.
Buit if you think otherwise, then you must consider the world to be a very strange place... :s
What colour is a red Northern bus?
Cos I'm pretty certain you would argue it was blue.
Right... One last time, it might sink in: To force (verb) to cause a person or thing to follow a prescribed or dictated course.
Q: What is the lack of a bus doing to the people in the Tyne Valley?
Is it:
A ) Causing that person to follow a prescribed course and seek alternative forms of transport (see definition of force taken from a dictionary)
to get to their destination?
or
B ) Hail the imaginary bus from an imaginary bus stop?
Just found this for you: www.ukjobs.oup.com/Exp/Vacancy.aspx?VacancyId=46825 Shame we have missed the deadline though.
The role would have been perfect.
We are looking for two people to join the team of lexicographers working on the Oxford English Dictionary (www.oed.com).
The OED documents the English Language from the Middle Ages to the present day and we are looking for one person to work on revising and updating the existing text and one person to work on researching and writing entirely new entries.
You could have re-written the dictionary to suit the eezypeazy school of logic!
