Big bigger biggest

Did anybody have this quoted at them in their childhood?

Good, better best
Never let it rest
Till your good is better
And your better best!

It's glasses fault having us all on a diet.

Annobel have you noticed that if threads go on long enough they always turn to food!!

It's called feminine logic, Anno me old cock!
At least that's what the other sex say!
Little do they know.
It went via a horrible pun from me on parsing sentences to root veg

How on earth did a thread that started off discussing the difference between big and large move on to horseradish and wasabi? That is the beauty of GN. It's just like a real conversation, rambling from one topic to another with only tenuous connections!

Green and Japanese and like ultra strong horseradish!

I love wasabi - but it can be a bit lively! First discovered it in the USA. Prefer horseradish and after growing it in my garden in England, where it ran amok, I have decided that it is best bought from the supermarket. Much less hassle, too!

Not to my knowledge, but I have eaten all kinds of things in all kinds of countries. What is it?

Have you tried wasabi paste?

The first time I tried horseradish was in a posh restaurant, and it came down my nose. I like it now, but I know to take it in small portions.
Beetroot is good for you, so I have it in my salads.

Yummy

and if they weren't nasty enough he invented horseradish and mustard to go with them . Now every restaurant I go in has all these all over the menu!

One thing is certain parsnips and beetroot are the work of the devil!

Greatnan . Cheers!

I have just done some extremely naughty comfort eating. McCain's spicy wedges with mayonnaise and a small tin of tiny peas and baby carrots, with a blob of Omega 3 spread. My target weight was 10 st. 7 lbs. and as I am now just 10 stone I decided to eat something I would really enjoy. And I did. And had a glass of wine. I feel much better.

Oh yes. Must go and check on steak and kidney in oven
Dieting is definitely off!

Beetroots, carrots and parsnips make great crisps too – much sweeter and more flavoursome than potato crisps.

Yeah. I love them roasted too. And carrots. And beetroot. Once I ate quite a large helping of roasted beetroot but forgot and was slightly alarmed by the red pee later. Just about to make a GP appointment when I remembered.

No, roasted!

jeni,

I like parsnips too, particularly in a stew.

Nothing at all wrong with biggest, or bigger or big, in the right context.
Yes, it should be the younger of two, but I think most of us may have referred to our youngest child (of two) - at least the meaning is clear.
Some strictly correct forms actually sound wrong to me - 'It is I' for example. I think I would always say 'It's me', although I know full well that the verb 'to be' takes a nominative complement. My goodness, how those phrases learned nearly 60 year ago stay in your mind.
On the other hand, 'I got it' is quite correct but sounds clumsy to me - well, at least it is not 'gotten'.
I enjoy the niceties of grammar - I use to love parsing and analysing a sentence - now I have seen teachers on quiz shows who didn't know an adverb from a pronoun.

I'm with you, susie, there are definitely contexts in which 'largest' sounds more appropriate than 'biggest'.

I don't think either is wrong, susie. I suppose it's just a matter of what you're used to or what you prefer.

Oh dear not making myself clear again am I? Its mainly on the property programmes. Presenters often say ' this is the biggest room' or ' this is the biggest house we have shown you' and it just sounds wrong. I would probably say ' the largest room or the largest house' but perhaps you think I am wrong. I remembered of our teachers of English Language at school correcting us for the use of biggest but it was a very long time ago so I may not be recalling this correctly. I shout 'largest' at the TV and my husband tuts - he thinks its doesn't matter. Thank you for thinking about it with me