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Mr. Tom Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Use of pell-mell

Hi

Is the use of pell-mell OK here?

The children were all running pell-mell in the school ground. (in an uncontrolled way)

She packed her suitcases pell-mell and stormed out of the room. (in a careless, uncontrolled way)

Thanks,

Tom

  

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The children were all running pell-mell around the school ground. She packed her suitcases pell-mell and stormed out of the room.

— Mister Micawber

  • The children were all running pell-mell around the school ground.
  • She packed her suitcases pell-mell and stormed out of the room.
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The children were all running pell-mell around the school ground.

She packed her suitcases pell-mell and stormed out of the room.

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Mr. Tompell-mell

It's not common for all English speakers to use this. I haven't heard it spoken.

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