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2nd December 2009

I'll use this page to add any Verbal Gardening tidbits that are thrown my way as time goes on. For example:

TWO USAGES OF THE WORD 'HONEST' (meaning fat)

On 1st September a Mr J. Cutteridge reported:

This situation genuinely occured:
Me: Who ate the last bit of cake
Brother: Honestly, it wasn't me.

Lovely stuff.

On 3rd September a Mr C. Horne noticed this on the BBC website:

I'm an honest player, says Rooney

Rooney is moving to distance himself from claims that he is a diver

Wayne Rooney says he is an "honest player" despite analysis of the crucial penalty he won against Arsenal last weekend revealing he may have dived.

ONE MENTION OF 'HONK' (meaning money):

On 9th September, the very same J. Cutteridge managed to get 'honk' onto another page of that same BBC website (earning himself a t shirt in the process):

Jamie via text on 81111: "Is it any surprise that the public aren't winning to spend their hard earned honk on these games? It's not as entertaining, the players look less interested and the county programme for next season shows where it is on the ECB's list of priorities."

44th over - 189-8 Sidebottom is the new man in the middle, and he's beaten first-up by Watson. England going nuts in this powerplay, three runs an over now... Siders is off the mark with a dab to third-man...

More to follow as and then when.

Day 0.

The first Verbal Seeds were planted on 25^th January 2006. This is still therefore a very early stage of the experiment. We are always in unchartered territory with Verbal Gardening but with educated guesswork, the earliest predicted harvest is a thousand days after insemination, on October 20, 2008. Get ready.

Click here to see how many days are left until the harvest.

(Subtract that number from a thousand to work out how many days the seeds have been planted for)