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englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:05 pm

It is not surprising that there are so many people sharing a birthday, you only need 24 people for it to be evens that two will share a birthday.

My younger two share a birthday, my husband shares a birthday with both my brother-in-law and my sister-in-law.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:58 pm

I know you have twins, and isn't your husband a twin as well, Mary? My two brothers shared a birthday, three years separated them. There are a surprising number of families with double birthdays and no twins.

I can remember teaching a class about the probability of sharing a birthday, the class laughed and said their shared birthday was 23rd August - which is my birthday, so there were three of us in the same room with the same birthday and fewer than 30 people there.

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:34 pm

And I share your birthday Katharine! So that proves something......I`m not quite sure what though!

UserRequestedRemoval · Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:41 pm

Confuzzed here, who's birthday is it?

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:45 pm

I wonder if ANY thread has actually managed to stay on topic? (apart from the CHA one that JT said HAD to ??!!)

UserRequestedRemoval · Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:54 pm

Very true, it can be fun working out just what is going on

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:56 pm

Mrs C. wrote:I wonder if ANY thread has actually managed to stay on topic? (apart from the CHA one that JT said HAD to ??!!)

Mallets mallet does

UserRequestedRemoval · Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:01 pm

It also shows we have truly warped minds!

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:21 pm

WE???

UserRequestedRemoval · Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:45 pm

There is no way that I am the only one Hunter, lets face it, you seem to understand some of the stuff I post here

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:36 pm

Some, Sean, some!

btw my name is really Robin

The name I use here is the names of my 2 sons

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:11 am

huntertitus wrote:Some, Sean, some!

btw my name is really Robin

The name I use here is the names of my 2 sons

That looks wrong when you read it but (I think) it is correct English.

Yes Katharine I do have twins, and my husband is a twin, but my sister-in law isn't, she is married to my brother. When the next brother got engaged we asked his fiancee if her birthday was the same date, it wasn't.

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:17 am

Would this be better English?

The name I use here is that of my two sons

It's an odd one because I use it here as one name whereas it is actually two names so is it singular or plural in the sentence - I think singular as the preposition follows the first noun.

Confused?

I am.

UserRequestedRemoval · Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:20 am

huntertitus wrote:Some, Sean, some!

btw my name is really Robin

The name I use here is the names of my 2 sons

See Robin you get at least some of them!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:49 pm

huntertitus wrote:Would this be better English?

The name I use here is that of my two sons

It's an odd one because I use it here as one name whereas it is actually two names so is it singular or plural in the sentence - I think singular as the preposition follows the first noun.

Confused?

I am.

I think the first one was correct but that this looks better.

Incidentally, I use the name I do because I have been chatting on the Internet for 10 years, and in the early days I wanted to be incognito, so I called myself Angel (nurse...geddit?). But I was always being paged in Spanish (Angel is a man's name in Spanish) so I put the English in front, and it stuck.