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@McTag,

Thank you, but um...are they both correct?

@WBYeats,

Um...yes.

@McTag,

Thank you~

What would you say when biscuits are no longer chippy (=as fresh and hard as they were before)

-After being left on the table several days, the biscuits ___. (have gone off?)

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@WBYeats,

Baked things, such as biscuits, bread, cakes etc are said to become or "go" stale if they are left too long.

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

Baked things, such as biscuits, bread, cakes etc are said to become or "go" stale if they are left too long.

Can we describe them as "go" sour?

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

contrex wrote:

Baked things, such as biscuits, bread, cakes etc are said to become or "go" stale if they are left too long.

Can we describe them as "go" sour?

No.

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@contrex,

contrex wrote:

oristarA wrote:

contrex wrote:

Baked things, such as biscuits, bread, cakes etc are said to become or "go" stale if they are left too long.

Can we describe them as "go" sour?

No.

Are there any other ways to describe it?
Go stale, go bad, go...?

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@WBYeats,

WBYeats wrote:

Thank you.

Situation:
A group of college students are celebrating their graduation at the pool; the host/MC proposes to throw the most popular teacher into the pool. What is the natural English?:

?Throw/dump him into the pool??

we would use 'toss' rather than throw or dump in this context

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

I wonder whether "clothes bursting out" sounds native or not.

not in North America

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Are there any other ways to describe it?
Go stale, go bad, go...?

Food which is stale is still edible, but has lost some of the qualities found in the fresh item. Food that is "bad" is dangerous to eat.

Stale bread, bad meat, bad fish, bad eggs.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

I wonder whether "clothes bursting out" sounds native or not.

At least in this part of North America it does.

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@InfraBlue,

Mexico, the US, or Canada?

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@WBYeats,

WBYeats wrote:

Mexico, the US, or Canada?

Southwest US

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Talking about US, if someone gets asked where he is from, is 'UK/US (no THE) as frequent an answer as 'the UK/US'?

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@WBYeats,

WBYeats wrote:

Talking about US, if someone gets asked where he is from, is 'UK/US (no THE) as frequent an answer as 'the UK/US'?

Not for UK citizens. We don't usually say "I am from UK", or "GB" for that matter. Only foreigners, due to ignorance, omit the definite article. The full title of the nation state is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". However people often say "Britain" or give a more local answer e.g. "I am from Wales, (or Scotland or England or Northern Ireland)".

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Thank you Contrex~

But InfraBlue said 'southwest US'(no THE); I meant to say, is THE still not omitable in an incomplete sentence like 'UK/US'?

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@WBYeats,

WBYeats wrote:

Thank you Contrex~

But InfraBlue said 'southwest US'(no THE); I meant to say, is THE still not omitable in an incomplete sentence like 'UK/US'?

1. 'Omitable' is not a word.
2. You will see that I answered for the UK specifically. I am not a native of the US, and therefore decline to comment directly.
3. However, people often omit things like articles, punctuation, etc, in informal writing (e.g. terse notes like the one InfraBlue wrote) which are required in more formal productions.

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@contrex,

Thank you~

especially for mentioning the mistake; do you mean I should have said 'omissible'?

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@WBYeats,

WBYeats wrote:

do you mean I should have said 'omissible'?

Yes.

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@WBYeats,

WBYeats wrote:

Thank you Contrex~

But InfraBlue said 'southwest US'(no THE); I meant to say, is THE still not omitable in an incomplete sentence like 'UK/US'?

Notice how I didn't even use punctuation.

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