[Mr Dangermouse]

Going to a club is not a ****ing verb.


/rant

[PinkMobilePhone]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/clubbing

clubbing [ˈklʌbɪŋ]
n
the activity of frequenting nightclubs and similar establishments

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...itish/clubbing

clubbing
noun /ˈklʌb.ɪŋ/

Definition
go clubbing
to go to nightclubs
Roz and I went clubbing last weekend.
(Definition of clubbing noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

need I go on?

incidentally, quite right, it's not a verb. According to dictionaries it is a noun. Irrelevant really - it's still clearly a perfectly grammatically correct term.

[Mr Dangermouse]

Either way if sounds ****ing stupid.

[PinkMobilePhone]

(Original post by Mr Dangermouse)
Either way if sounds ****ing stupid.

So does littering sentences with profanities, yet you do it, I do it, most people probably do it at some point or other. It sounds ****ing stupid though.

[Mr Dangermouse]

(Original post by PinkMobilePhone)
So does littering sentences with profanities, yet you do it, I do it, most people probably do it at some point or other. It sounds ****ing stupid though.

I don't think swearing sounds that bad tbh. It's just a pet piece of mine "I'm going clubbing tonight"

You generally don't describe the establishment you're attending and add "ing" if you get what I mean. You'd never go restauranting or schooling if you get what I mean. The "ing" tends to be an activity as opposed to the actual place you're going.

[PinkMobilePhone]

(Original post by Mr Dangermouse)
I don't think swearing sounds that bad tbh. It's just a pet piece of mine "I'm going clubbing tonight"

You generally don't describe the establishment you're attending and add "ing" if you get what I mean. You'd never go restauranting or schooling if you get what I mean. The "ing" tends to be an activity as opposed to the actual place you're going.

Yes I get what you mean, but that's one of the quirks of languages I guess - there are always inconsistencies and irregulars and general annoyances

i before e except after c.......okay then, the word 'their' (among several others) disproves this

stick -ed onto something to make it past tense....okay then, I swimmed? I catched? I throwed? or perhaps swam, caught, and threw

There were tears on my pillowcase.....is my pillowcase wet, or ripped?

"this was something I had had before".....had had - look at all those hads!


We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes.

Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be pen?

The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.

And I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet,
But I give a boot... would a pair be beet?

If one is a tooth, and a whole set is teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?

If the singular is this, and the plural is these,
Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be kese?

Then one may be that, and three be those,
Yet the plural of hat would never be hose.

We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.

The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim.

So our English, I think you will agree,
Is the trickiest language you ever did see.