What happened to English grammar?

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How anyone can be so heartless, knowing how many perished as a result of the Spanish flown outbreaks beats me.

[groan]

Spanish flew...

Fly, flew, flown.

Spanish fly perhaps?

gillybob I don't know what you've been on this afternoon, but I'll have a large one!
And Elegran

Fly me, flyB

Fly me to the moon?

time flies

Kind of thick and lispy with a hint of buzz around the SSSSS ! Elegran

Trying to imagine what accent a fly would have . . .

elegran

Elegran I was reading that out loud in a "flies accent"

How big a tip do you give a fly? Is 1p enough? I suppose it depends whether they have given outstanding service or just done their job to a minimum. ("More than me job's worth to crap on that trifle for you, Missus. I am only supposed to do cream cakes")

Is a fly tipper someone who tips flies?

Fly not flt. Or possibly flit.

At a stretch, the theatre scenery could be said to flt through the air when the ropes are pulled?

Can't see where a fly cuppa or a fly half come from though. Doing things on the fly, perhaps?

..............and then there is Chinese curry and flies.

And then there are fly leaves in books. I'm thinking flies in theatres might be related to those.

Galen Full circle. We are back to grammar and semantics. Didn't the codpiece used to be attached by lacing round "points", rather like the hooks on climbing boots. The points were referred to in the plural, so maybe the flies were too? Then there is the rigging which holds up stage scenery and curtains etc. That is called the flies - plural - perhaps undoing the flies revealed the scenery in all its glory.

It won't fall off its perch, Des. The thread is not dead, just metamorphosing into other forms and back again. Normal for Gransnet.

DES ??

Could flies fly's go back to the days when it was a sort of trapdoor arrangement at the front?

The bird is about to fall off its perch