#14579
01/03/2001 3:01 PM
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Ran into this phrase in an email from a British customer. My take is that it means items received or some such. Is this close? Am I all wet? Does it mean something totally else?
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#14580
01/03/2001 3:09 PM
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Goods inward, surely? 'Inward' in the sense of 'coming in', and you'd also see this labelling an area like a loading bay. But 'good inwards' looks like a typing mistake. Or a curious re-segmentation by the writer.
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#14581
01/03/2001 3:41 PM
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NicholasW: Goods inward, surely?... 'good inwards' looks like a typing mistake
He later used the phrase send all good & correspondence to that address.
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#14582
01/03/2001 5:39 PM
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Just how British was your correspondent? That kind of error is generally associated with English as a second language ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#14583
01/03/2001 6:35 PM
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How British was he?
Without compromising anyone's privacy, his last name sounded almost as though he could have a cat that wangled him a lord high mayorship.
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#14584
01/03/2001 7:12 PM
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Off topic, but intersting. I recently purchased an item off of ebay from a firm in the UK. In our email correspondence he thanked me for my custom. Loved that!
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#14585
01/03/2001 7:14 PM
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In reply to:
NicholasW: Goods inward, surely?... 'good inwards' looks like a typing mistake
He later used the phrase send all good & correspondence to that address.
Speaking as one gifted in the black art of making typos, I know how easy it is to repeatedly make the same error. I have to agree with Nicholas that "good" is almost certainly meant to be "goods", in both instances. Was the correspondence handwritten? If not, I would assume that the author simply failed to notice the missing "s" - perhaps relying on a spell-checker, which would let "good" pass unchallenged.
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01/03/2001 7:17 PM
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[Max lowed moronically Was the correspondence handwritten?A handwritten email - will wonders never cease?!  Sorry!
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01/03/2001 7:31 PM
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Max Q apologizes: A handwritten email - will wonders never cease?!
With the adances in palm products it is here or close at hand (NPI)
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#14588
01/03/2001 10:20 PM
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Even goods inward sounds odd to me. How would you use this?
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#14589
01/04/2001 8:54 AM
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I'm sure "send all good" isn't an old-fashioned commercial locution: that's got to be a typo for goods.
These phrases (another is "accounts receivable") have an air of law-French about them, with the postposed adjective. In "goods inward" the second word is probably an adverb contracted from a longer phrase, but nowadays we'd transform it to an adjective and say "inward goods" when we contracted it.
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01/04/2001 1:12 PM
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The complete sentence was: Although I have moved, our good inwards is still at my old address.
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01/04/2001 9:51 PM
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The complete sentence was: Although I have moved, our good inwards is still at my old address.
Ok, I understand. This person is referring to a group of paintings akin to the controversial piece on display in New York City featuring a fetidly decorated Virgin Mary. The writer obviously meant to say "innards" but made a typo. He is saying that he has one of these paintings that he likes, and it's still at his old residence.
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01/06/2001 1:11 AM
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Do you think he meant the receiving desk or dock?
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#14593
01/06/2001 5:27 AM
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Seeing as nobody has added the 3rd option, thought I just might... "Goods Inwards" - ie implying pluralty and direction. Seen signs (signage?) with this on numerous businesses. "Goods Inward" would be the most common form though.
"Receipts", "Receivals", "Receiving Dock", "Deliveries" etc - all valid substitutes.
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#14594
01/06/2001 11:27 PM
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Isn't this amazing? People all over the world are puzzling over an unknown someone's message! Way cool!
I'm inclined to think your customer made a typo, F., because of the repetition of it. It sounds to me like he is meaning, "This is where deliveries should be sent".
Now--Nick (say so if you don't like that shortening), you used two terms I've never heard before: law-French, and
postposed. Postposed I can tell from the context, but that brings up the question that came to mind in the post that suggested 'good inwards' ought to be 'goods inward': is there a word for this? It isn't a spoonerism, is it, when the last letters of words are transposed?
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#14595
01/08/2001 12:12 PM
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Now--Nick (say so if you don't like that shortening)
Well I don't complain, but it's not my name. I never use it.
Law-French: the continuance of Norman French in legal and administrative terms, with characteristics such as N A combinations with plural Ns A, as court(s) martial, governor(s) general, durance vile, even malice aforethought; and infinitives in -er as nouns, such as rejoinder, misnomer, demurrer, and many others I can't think of too numerous to mention; and actual French phrases such as mort d'ancestor and lese-majesty, which should not be given their modern French prounciation.
Tail-end spoonerism: I don't think it's just a phonetic thing, but it has undergone several stages of unconscious grammatical reanalysis, along these lines:
-- "goods inward" is a single lexical item
-- it's plural
-- so it must end in -s
-- it only has one s
-- so it must be "good inwards"
-- and that sounds okay, as if analogical with "good news", "good intentions"
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#14596
01/08/2001 1:30 PM
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Although I have moved, our good inwards is still at my old addressMaybe this correspondent's road to hell is paved with goods intentions? But I think Jazz's explanation (as usual) is probably nearest to the mark 
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