Skiddaw Slate (as opposed to Honister slate which has a green hue) and is used for building, in the Lake District. The traditional buildings of Keswick and other settlements are almost entirely of Skiddaw slate. The slate is also used for making souvenirs, monuments, ornaments etc. Smaller fragments are used for gravels or for ornamental pathways. Skiddaw Slate Skiddaw slate is an early Ordovician metamorphosed sedimentary rock, as first identified on the slopes of Skiddaw in the English Lake District. The base of this series is unknown. The thickness could, therefore, amount to several thousand feet of sediment. These sediments were formed
Inanimate whose the English Language" of 1860: "At present, the use of "whose", the possessive of "who", is pretty generally confined to persons, or things personified, and we should scruple to say, 'I passed a house "whose" windows were open.' This is a modern, and indeed by no means yet fully established distinction." Henry Bradley in the "Oxford English Dictionary" asserted "usually replaced by "of which", except where the latter would produce an intolerably clumsy form". Other grammarians began noticing discrepancies between usage and the assertions of those who prescribed against the inanimate "whose". The American Goold Brown, in his "The Grammar