Morrisons += 9lbs 1oz
08 Nov 2012

My wife is amazing and we have a daughter!
Iris was born at 20:40:53 on 5th November, which meant that Sarah’s labours were accompanied by the sound of fireworks.
I am now enjoying the grammatical conundrums that occur because Iris’s initial matches the first person pronoun.
“I and S are in the hospital” now means something different from “S and I are in the hospital.”
Henceforth, contextual disambiguation will be required for abbreviated sentences in which I is/am the singular subject.
I can also legitimately write “I is cool”.
Tags: personal, iris, family, grammar
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