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plural of message examples
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(Ireland, Scotland and Northern England) Shopping, groceries, errands. quotations examples
I was going up the town to buy some messages.
1983, Raymond McClean, The road to Bloody Sunday, page 119
A South African woman, just married to an Irishman and newly arrived in this country, was shocked when her husband told her, "I just saw yer man in the shop when I was getting the messages (groceries)." "My what?" "Yer man. […] "
1987, Pulpsmith, volume 6, page 275
A woman with a well-to-do south voice told me to wash my soily hands before touching her messages.
1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 9
third-person singular simple present indicative of message examples