Saturday radio listening in our household was exclusively ABC RN and growing up we had The Goons, The Science Show and variously the panel shows My Word! or My Music! ... My Word! is available on archive.org here - https://archive.org/details/bbcmyword #radio #myword #panelgames
... never a great feeling when the police air wing just ... hangs around in the vicinity ...
How do other English speakers treat the words begin, end, start and stop?
For some reason I think of these as effectively different bracket pairs - "begin" and "end" vs "start" and "stop"
To make things more specific, in my head "begin"+"end" denote the global termination of an event - can't be anything before "begin", nor can anything be after "end" ...
"start"+"stop" on the other hand denote a span of time within an event - "stop" in this sense is more considered "pause" in that it might resume later, but denotes the closure of this span ...
All of that to say, EOFY paired with SOFY is making me twitchy ...
Victorian vehicle registration plates are (currently) of the form
[0-9][A-Z][A-Z]-[0-9][A-Z][A-Z]
... sometimes my brain will want to play stupid format conversion games on plates such as 2mi-3km or 1ft-3dm, for example ...