A twining agreement

[Bassim]

I have tried to use a "twining agreement" in a sentence. Would you please correct my mistakes?

The majors and London and Sofia signed a twinning agreement, which they expect would improve relations between two capitals in all areas, from economy to arts, sports and science.

 

[jutfrank]

There's a lot wrong here. Most of all the spelling of twinning.

 

[Bassim]

Yes,
Unfortunately, I missed that too. I must have been very tired when I wrote my sentence.

 

[Bassim]

I will repeat my sentence.

The mayors of London and Sofia signed a twinning agreement, which they expect will improve relations between the two capitals in all areas, from economy to arts, sports and science.

 

[Bassim]

I read in a Bosnian news site that the mayors of Doha and Sarajevo signed a twinning agreement today, but I was not sure how to formulate that sentence in English, and therefore I tried to write my own sentence just to see if it sounds natural in English.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

It's not American English, so I looked it up. As I suspected, it's what we call a sister cities agreement. I don't know what the British call it.

 

[Rover_KE]

... or 'town twinning (agreement)'.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

One wonders what the ultimate objective is. I found a word today that I'd like to use in a sentence: "honorificabilitudinitatibus". Can you help me? If not, how about "antidisestablishmentarianism"?

So far, I've never been able to work demisemihemidemisemiquaver or floccinaucinhilipification into a sentence.

Until now.

 

[Barb_D]

Someone has found a new word/phrase, and wants to make sure they understand it by using it in a sentence.

While it's useful to tell someone that a word/phrase is fairly uncommon in our everyday use of the language, I don't see why we should be making fun of the practice of trying it out in a new sentence.

 

[Rover_KE]

So far, I've never been able to work demisemihemidemisemiquaver ... into a sentence.

Until now.

I think you'll find that's hemidemisemiquaver.

 

[GoesStation]

So far, I've never been able to work demisemihemidemisemiquaver or floccinaucinhilipification into a sentence.

Musicians in Britain occasionally use the first one. Americans call that a two-hundred and fifty-sixth note,​ usually written as a 256[SUP]th[/SUP] note.

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm grateful that in all my years playing musical instruments and singing, I have never had to deal with anything shorter than a hemidemisemiquaver!

 

[GoesStation]

I think you'll find that's hemidemisemiquaver.

[EDIT]That is indeed a hemidemisemiquaver (a 64[SUP]th[/SUP] note in AmE). You need two more beams for a 256[SUP]th[/SUP] note.

 

[GoesStation]

Antidisestablishmentarianism

I was immensely gratified years ago when I opened the Letters pages of The Economist and found Antidisestablishmentarianism as the sub-head over a letter. The newspaper (whose publishers have yet to accede to the modern trend of calling such journals "magazines") has kept up its proud tradition as recently as last September.