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From: Phil Warn <>
Subject: Re: [ABOUT-WORDS] bad English, bad manners
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:21:03 +0100
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At 15:14 10/09/2007, Gordon Barlow wrote:

>The above is a welcome rant on the vice of
>careless writing. (I consider bad grammar and
>spelling as careless, since it is easy enough to
>find the standard versions of what

Gordon,

In no particular order here are my gripes

1) Greengrocer's apostrophes - grape's .
collieflower's - these bark! - apple's . even St
Thomas's Hospital seems not to obey the (usual)
apostrophising rules., CD's DVD's, etc etc etc
- I was not sure that electronic media can
possess anything - except perhaps their sleeves?

2) lose, loose

3) imply, infer

4) principle - principal

5) dependant - dependent

6) I - me as we discussed before

7) split infinitives - Star Trek boldly went

8) MPs who er, um, never answer a straight question with a straight answer.

9) bought - brought

10) Myself when I should be used as a subject of a verb

11) Double, even triple negatives

12) "Sick as a parrot", "a game of two halves" -
would be a very strange game with three or more halves.

13) "We woz robbed" - when a footie team did not
play very well - or "the ref is blind" - did they
not see the white stick and guide dog on the touch line?

14) "we were playing against 12 players" - said
when they did not like some of the ref's decisions

So,why so they not have video refs in football
(association) games? cricket and rugby union employ them

Phil
Who has not recovered from the fact that England
won all three international games on Saturday -
cricket, footie & rugby world cup









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