laughing dog
Contributor
It takes a special sense of narcissism to conclude a response to someone else is an attack on you.laughing dog, I'm going to express an opinion here: your relentless attacks on me are obsessive and deranged.I do. Apparently you don't. It means to have an idea but not to know for sure.You really don't know what the word means?You "suspect"? Wow.Well, I suspect Hussey knows more about it than I do, since she was a first party to the event. But we don't have Hussey's response or comments to the event.Has it occurred to you that there is a possibility that the Lady Hussey and/or the palace personnel know more about what happened than you?It is not at all surprising to me that the Palace responded the way it did. The UK, indeed the entire Anglosphere, is in hair-trigger readiness to avoid the stain of being accused of racism.
Tom
Your pathetic pedantry aside, playing the age card is an "HOLY TOLEDO WOW".I could also have said "I'll bet she knows more", which is another way of saying "Yes, she knows more and I am confident of that".
Please find below the definition of the verb 'suspect', which laughing dog thought warranted a 'wow'.
suspect
verb [ T ]
uk
/səˈspekt/ us
/səˈspekt/
suspect verb [T] (THINK LIKELY)
B2
to think or believe something to be true or probable:
So far, the police do not suspect foul play.
[ + (that) ] We had no reason to suspect (that) he might try to kill himself.
"Do you think she'll have told them?" "I suspect not/so."
And - by the way - it would not be unreasonable for Hussey to know even less than I do. She may not remember the conversation at all. She probably interacted with dozens of people and is in her 80s.
It is unreasonable to think someone in a different hemisphere knows more about an incident than an actual participant who also has access to the same media report as you. In fact, it is not unreasonable to describe your defense as obsessively deranged.