The word "bumping" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this verb when referring to the act of coming into contact with something, usually when moving. For example, "The truck bumped the fence as it drove by."
But almost everyone avoids handshakes when greeting friends and family, instead bumping elbows or moving a hand towards the heart.
Stories grounded in the landscape also loom large, in customs such as choosing the gleaning queen when the harvest is brought in, or bumping heads against boundary stones to affirm the limits of the local world.
One passes the other as if they were two blokes simply accustomed to bumping into one another.
As an undetectable means of bumping someone off, poison has fallen steeply out of favour in recent times, forensic technology having advanced to such a degree that the presence of even the smallest quantities of any toxic agent in a corpse will now almost inevitably be detected.
"It takes an hour and a half to get to [the AWH office]." Sinodinos explained there was also work done reading board notes and "bumping into people" in the street and at functions.
No one looks at their watch, no one is fretting about their time, no one is rushing to get to the end… At the halfway point the grounds of a local school have been turned into a base camp with neat rows of tents bumping up across the playing fields like the handiwork of some massive mole with OCD.
I walked around the ground slowly (bumping into Phil Tufnell nervously pacing about with a fag on) as I tried to get the best angle to see the fabled fast arm.
Since then it's evolved into a world-class collection of boutique rooms and villas, the destination of choice for every international hipster looking for tropical chic without risking bumping into Simon Cowell.
Romania A recent Post Office survey revealed that the pretty resort of Poiana Brasov is the most affordable ski resort in Europe for lessons and lift passes, bumping Borovets off the top spot.
There's also a macroeconomic case, which Vince Cable understands as well as Ed Balls, for easing up on the cuts and making smart investment choices that will help lift the UK economy off the bottom, where it is bumping along quietly in company with most of our neighbours.
Petr Cech has been mentioned as a possible replacement and it was intriguing to discover United's chief executive, Ed Woodward, met Mourinho at a hotel in London on Friday (though the relevant people assure me it was purely a case of bumping into one another).
