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I forgot to post this!
The answer is COMMONSENSE.
Anyone got the solution?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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I almost answered that, but I always write it as two words, then again I was "educated" during the 80s when everything was being cut back.
Got a partial solution:
The common comes from common room as in JCR or SCR. But you couldn't eat at either of these in any college I visited.
in past or yet to come : Tenses (no time (t))--> enses --> sense
Common Sense.
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Almost...
Commons is the Academic Dining Room
And Tense less the T = ense.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Given how many people here went to uni I am surprise that nobody got it.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Well I went to a very academic uni and I never heard anyone use that term.
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Many places have their own terminology so it isn't so surprising.
I wanted to point to this wikipedia article Battel[^], which we had to pay termly for lodging and food. When reading the article, it turns out that Battels was distinct to Commons (the latter being the name of the bill the student gets for the standard meals), and that some [other] Durham/Oxford colleges continue to use it in the way my college used Battel.
You live and learn!
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<grump>
"Common sense" is two words.
</grump>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If one uses one's Common Sense then yes, but if one takes a Commonsense approach then it isn't.
Like Work Force, and Workforce, or Peer Less and Peerless.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Afraid not.
Like any other compound noun, if used attributively, it should be hyphenated: "a common-sense approach"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dalek Dave wrote: The answer is COMMONSENSE.
Anyone got the solution?
There is no solution. You either have it or you don't.
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