Sitting pretty.I'm I'm Contraction of I am. Our Living Language Speakers of some scattered varieties of American English sometimes use I'm instead of I've or I have in present perfect constructions, as in a big Supporto fan. I have been sitting on one for the last 25 years. Off and on, of course. Designed in 1979 by the late Fred Scott, it was British modern furniture pioneer Hille's second really big hit following Robin Day's polypropylene polypropylene (pŏl'ēprō`pəlēn), plastic noted for its light weight, being less dense than water; it is a polymer of propylene. It resists moisture, oils, and solvents. chair. Octogenarian oc·to·ge·nar·i·an adj. Being between 80 and 90 years of age. n. A person between 80 and 90 years of age. Day, bemused by a recent revival of his designs from the '50s and '60s announced that he had just given up climbing big mountains. Nothing so dramatic for the Fred Scott cast aluminium masterpiece. With the sale of Hille and its designs to a succession of companies the word out in the trade last year was that the Supporto was never to be made again. Not so, I have happily discovered. A firm called Supporto (www.supporto.co.uk) has started making it again. I have to declare an interest in that the new Supporto people are sending me a couple of bits of industrial strength Velcro and some instructions for DIYing a recent bungled bun·gle v. bun·gled, bun·gling, bun·gles v.intr. To work or act ineptly or inefficiently. v.tr. To handle badly; botch. See Synonyms at botch. n. 'professional' repadding. |
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