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"Fair do's" vs "Fair dues"
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Harrison Hill
Jun 19, 2016, 4:23:14 AM6/19/16
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"Fair do's" vs "Fair dues"
The first meaning, "Well done". Anyone deprecating the grocer's
apostrophe, will have some head-scratching to do here.
The second usually as "...to give him(her) his(her) fair dues...".
So they aren't synonyms...quite
The first meaning, "Well done". Anyone deprecating the grocer's
apostrophe, will have some head-scratching to do here.
The second usually as "...to give him(her) his(her) fair dues...".
So they aren't synonyms...quite
Richard Tobin
Jun 19, 2016, 5:05:03 AM6/19/16
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In article <43f92944-dea0-4b4d...@googlegroups.com>,
only mean "well done" if said to approve of someone behaving fairly.
>The second usually as "...to give him(her) his(her) fair dues...".
You give someone their due, not their fair due. "Fair dues" sounds
like a mishearing of "fair do's".
-- Richard
Harrison Hill <harrison...@gmail.com> wrote:
>"Fair do's" vs "Fair dues"
>
>The first meaning, "Well done".
It means fair treatment, especially when demanding it. It would
>"Fair do's" vs "Fair dues"
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>The first meaning, "Well done".
only mean "well done" if said to approve of someone behaving fairly.
>The second usually as "...to give him(her) his(her) fair dues...".
like a mishearing of "fair do's".
-- Richard
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