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I doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of corn to mill. I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try who will get there first. The distance is thirty miles; the fare ninety cents. I remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road.

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Well, I start now on foot, and get there before night; I have traveled at that rate by the week together. You will in the meanwhile have earned your fare and arrive there sometime tomorrow, or possibly this evening, if you are lucky enough to get a job in season. Theoretically, nothing may be brought through the time machine in either direction as it might cause time to unravel, and safeguards have been put in place in order to prevent significant objects making the journey.

The historians and scientists who invented the time machine believe the object may rip time itself apart if it isn't promptly returned. Ned, who only knows 20th century history, and still suffering from time lag, is given a crash course on Victorian times while simultaneously being told his mission and destination. The combination of muddled lessons, imprecise instructions, and the jump to worsening the time lag leaves him confused about where he is supposed to be, who he should meet, where he should go, and no idea at all about the out-of-time object he is carrying.

Time travel has a self-correcting mechanism called slippage, moving time travelers either in time or place from their target in order to protect history. Ned arrives at the correct time, but unknown to him, he is not at the estate where another time traveler should meet him. Instead, he has slipped in destination to a railway station 30 miles away.

He meets Terence St. Trewes, a besotted young Oxford undergraduate, mistaking him for his time travel contact.

He agrees to share the cost of a hired boat for a trip on the River Thames from Oxford down to Muchings End, where Terence hopes to meet his love, Tocelyn "Tossie" Mering. Ned, Terence, Cyril the bulldog and Professor Peddick an Oxford dean travel down the Thames navigating locks, beautiful scenery, crowds of languid boaters in no hurry to get anywhere, and the party of Jerome K.

Jerome , a homage to the original novel from which To Say Nothing of the Dog draws its name and themes. Fortunately, Ned's contact in Muchings End recognizes him when he arrives and identifies herself: Lady Schrapnell sent Verity to read Tossie's diary because Tossie an ancestor of Lady Schrapnell had written about a life-changing event involving the bird stump at the first Coventry Cathedral St Michael's Cathedral , an event which had caused her to elope with a mysterious "Mr.

It is only at this point that Ned learns the nature of the object he is to return: Tossie's pet cat, Princess Arjumand. Cats are extinct in due to a feline distemper pandemic. Ned and Verity continually attempt to fix the time travel incongruity. They must know the histories of the characters around them, and their descendants impact on future history, and also the mystery of Mr. Their interloping attempts to fix the known history of the people around them cause ripple effects forward and backward through history from Waterloo to World War II, and even to when time travel was invented.

After several adventures attempting to correct things themselves, both end up, mistakenly, in different eras attempting to get back to Say is standalone, singly-sourced announcement, the act of a person speaking words. While there may be a listener, this verb does not include such. Tell is a transfer from one person to another. It usually requires both a sender and a receiver.

The receiver is often a direct object, though it can be implied. Say more often is used with direct quoting than tell , though both can be used that way: I said not to touch it.

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I said "don't touch it. I told you "don't touch it. What did you say to him?

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What did you tell him? Second , examining your given phrases: ErikE 3, 2 18 That's an interesting one! Thanks for the pointer--I have updated my answer accordingly because that is exactly what I meant to say. What a trip that I couldn't see it!!!



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Nothing to tell you, You don't love me no more Nothing to say now, nowhere to hide "Nothing to say" also seems more common in writing n-gram for both but they're similar with "there's". The meaning of " nothing to tell " is often The thing you are asking me about isn't as you think. I'm lost for words. Communicate information to someone in spoken or written words Say From O. Def from dictionary , primary meaning: Utter words so as to convey information, an opinion, a feeling or intention, or an instruction In context Finally, putting it in context here is an attempt to outline the difference.

There was nothing to say. There is nothing to tell. Lucy on the phone with a friend In the first example using "to tell" instead of "to say" would change the meaning; "to tell" implies a story narrate, relate , announcement make known by speech or writing or disclosure from reveal or disclose.



This is different and more specific compared to "to say" which literally means "to utter". Here are a few examples to illustrate the difference between saying and telling in terms of semantics: He told me to go away, but what he actually said was pretty vulgar. What was your brother doing at the party last night? I've got nothing to tell. Seriously, why does he do those crazy things? I've got nothing to say. Jay Elston 2, 11 What you outline is a difference in usage, not in meaning. You bring up the distinction of "tell you" and "say to you", but this distinction does not help you to chose which to use i.

I am sorry, I must have misread the OP's question, I thought the question was about usage , not meaning. He said he just didn't get it. He told me he just didn't get it.

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He told me he didn't understand. I answered before reading yours; now I see you looked at etymology, too, but I disagree that the fact that say is close to meaning to declare is a good point of distinction - "to tell" had a meaning of to announce since 12c and anyway I find announce closer to say and to tell compared to to declare. To be honest, I didn't know the differences.