Hmm David, whilst I bow to your authoritative precision in matters of the English language, maybe you can flex your imagination in this matter.
I wonder if the original poster serendipitously came up with a new phrase "lead to the thread".....meaning something which is adding disproportionate weight to the thread. Think of it as the second cousin twice removed of "adding grist to the mill".
What about people who use full stops instead of apostrophies?
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plane lea marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea
Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee four two long
And eye can put the err roar rite
Its rare lea ever wrong
Eye have run this poem threw it
am shore yore pleased two no
Its let her purr fact awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
You can take a horse to water,
But a pencil must be lead.
(well graphite these days.. but that doesn't work so well)
The one my great-grandmother always used to tell me** was:
'You can take a horse to water, but you have a snowball's chance in hell of successfully enrolling him in the national equine synchronised swimming team.'
**OK - so I never actually met her, but I feel sure if I had, she'd have told me something like that.
I used to have a led watch back in the 1970's.
The same way they keep the arm bands on stupid. .
It's theraputic apparently.
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