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 Fri 1 Feb 19 23:49 
 what one would you pick? - Bobby
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Includes lots of E model references for those of a BMW persuasion!!
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 Sat 2 Feb 19 19:58 
 what one would you pick? - MD
I wouldn’t pick him as a journalist. “These ones”. That’s great grammar Son. Overgrown puffed up kid.
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 Sat 2 Feb 19 21:25 
 what one would you pick? - Runfer D'Hills
I wouldn't "pick" him ( or any of the cars ). I might "choose" one though...

Coughs and withdraws.

;-)))
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 Sun 3 Feb 19 00:42 
 what one would you pick? - No FM2R
A finite, countable list, so 'which' not 'what'.
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 Sun 3 Feb 19 08:09 
 what one would you pick? - tyrednemotional
>> I wouldn't "pick" him ( or any of the cars ). I might "choose" one
>> though...

...I suspect, given the opportunity, that you might choose more than one.......
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 Sun 3 Feb 19 09:24 
 what one would you pick? - Manatee
>> I wouldn't "pick" him ( or any of the cars ). I might "choose" one
>> though...
>>
>> Coughs and withdraws.
>>
>> ;-)))

Argument!

Pick works better than choose in this context IMO. Pick implies a necessary decision, with a from defined options, also that the object is to end up with the best one - the "pick".

Choice is subtly different - you might choose not to have any of them, or choose not to say. You might choose something entirely different, but you can't have it as you must pick one from those that are available. You can't pick and choose.

Or you could avoid the dilemma by selecting one.
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 Sun 3 Feb 19 10:03 
 what one would you pick? - Fenlander
I'm not sure I'd "take" any of those he featured if the opportunity arose. Load of bloaters by and large plus some seriously naff interior designs and trim colours.
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 Sun 3 Feb 19 10:48 
 what one would you pick? - Runfer D'Hills
You can pick your nose, but you can't choose it, without surgical intervention anyway. But one chooses a motor vehicle. You most definitely wouldn't say ( in polite company ) that you had picked, lets say, a Mondeo, would you? Of course not, you would say that you had chosen one.

Sometimes I feel like Canute...

;-)
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 Sun 3 Feb 19 12:05 
 what one would you pick? - Manatee
>> Sometimes I feel like Canute...
>>
>> ;-)

So do I.

Most of us wouldn't choose any of those cars. But if you had to pick one?
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 Sun 3 Feb 19 12:11 
 what one would you pick? - Lygonos
>> Sometimes I feel like Canute...


c.nut is more accurate than Canute...





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 Sun 3 Feb 19 18:13 
 what one would you pick? - Runfer D'Hills
>> But if you had to pick one?

Have to say, I'm very reluctant to take any advice on the correct use of the English language from a Yorkshireman.

That's not to say that there have never been any clever ones of course, in much the same way there is no doubt that some dolphins are pretty quick witted, but I'd not rush to ask one to proof read and critique my written work for me...

;-)))
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 Mon 4 Feb 19 10:56 
 what one would you pick? - Manatee
>> >> But if you had to pick one?
>>
>> Have to say, I'm very reluctant to take any advice on the correct use of
>> the English language from a Yorkshireman.

The Edinburgh Scots are more English than most of the English so you're probably right. And I do have a tendency to fall into dialect.
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 Sun 3 Feb 19 12:11 
 what one would you pick? - tyrednemotional
>>
>> Sometimes I feel like Canute...
>>


...your spelling is abysmal.......

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 Sun 3 Feb 19 13:01 
 what one would you pick? - Zero
I have always thought you were a Canute.
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 Sun 3 Feb 19 20:58 
 what one would you pick? - MD
>> I wouldn't "pick" him ( or any of the cars ). I might "choose" one
>> though...
>>
>> Coughs and withdraws.
>>
>> ;-)))
>>
Isn't that the Catholic method?
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 Mon 4 Feb 19 13:21 
 what one would you pick? - ToMoCo
Not much changes around here I see. :)

I'd have the 928 GTS.

Or maybe the Starion.
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