Taxi's in hindhead, midhurst and rogate

[Kevoffthetee]

evening folks, wondering if any south coast forumers can help with some info?

I'm travelling down to hindhead for a wedding this Sunday and need a good local taxi company to book a lift to the wedding (hindhead to midhurst), then onto reception (midhurst to rogate) then back to the hotel around midnight (rogate to hindhead).

After a quick search online I'm guessing that there is no Hackney license cabs and it'll be all private hire so am looking to sort it before we get there.

Thanks in advance folks

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Taxi's..... What?




Sorry

 

[Kevoffthetee]

What do suveners call them? Taxi's, cabs, the butler?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Try a google of

Taxi Hindhead
Taxi Midhurst
Taxi Rogate

None of the three are places you can just flag a cab down like you can in The Toon. This is deepest darkest rural West Sussex. In fact taxis are pretty rare. Most of the locals drive large, expensive 4WDs, and have a man to do the driving on special occasions.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

What do suveners call them? Taxi's, cabs

Just mildly playing here, but Taxis' (meaning more than one) - The apostrophe placement of it between the letters that you have means you have implied that the taxi is a possessive (I think it is) i.e. you are going to tell us in the next bit of the sentence or phrase that something belongs or purports to the taxi, like the colour of the coat or the owner, hence the

Taxi's..... What??

Or something like that anyway (although when it comes to things like the '70s, 70s' or..... 70's either seems to have been about for a long time, which confuses me slightly).


The whole thing seems to have gone to pot and apostrophes are fired across everything now, just look at Facebook for example, I wonder if any of them ever went to school at all, and now they seem to have avoided it by using a '/' or ',' instead.

This just surprises me as I thought everyone knew these things!

I know it doesn't matter and all that, but I do wonder why I was taught all this stuff then!

the butler?

Now now, no need for that, as that is @User14044 you are thinking of!

I am rather ticked that you think I'm a 'Suvener' by the way, although I am from central/south Scotland, so you have point!

...... Or something

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And someone will be along any second to correct me probably.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Sorry, not much help here.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I think you are wrong.

Probably, yes.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

My butler has deserted me.

I'd just Google mini cabs for that area....there'll be plenty

How about:

http://www.rogatecars.co.uk

Please see post #4

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

@Kevoffthetee, I need to explain that I have spent half the night on the 3 word game thread thinking up umpteen words all beginning with the same letters and so on, so I'm in Language Mode!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

The apostrophe placement of it between the letters that you have means you have implied that the taxi is a possessive

Ah, but it might not be a genitive, it could be an elision.

GC

 

[Fnaar]

Ah, but it might not be a genitive, it could be an elision.

GC

A contraction, rather than an elision though.... elision is more often associted with pronunciation, and while it may actually apply here, we are primarily discussing the written form.
And taxis.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

A contraction, rather than an elision though.... elision is more often associted with pronunciation, and while it may actually apply here, we are primarily discussing the written form.
And taxis.

I am grateful to my learned friend for the clarification. <gentle bow>

GC

 

[Globalti]

Interesting grammar point: did you know that Polish is the only word in English whose meaning is completely altered by the presence or absence of a capital?

 

[Markymark]

Interesting grammar point: did you know that Polish is the only word in English whose meaning is completely altered by the presence or absence of a capital?

Us US?