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RE: Thanksgiving
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There is no editing facility on the FOTA board so we all have to live with our mistakes! Having sai......
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December 05, 2002 23:06
RE: Periods, commas, and whatnot...
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Most Microsoft programs have their defaults set on the apparent assumption that nobody is capable of......
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December 05, 2002 12:50
RE: Periods, commas, and whatnot...
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This will be because you have set this as a preference in your spelling and grammar check options. ......
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December 05, 2002 11:28
RE: Thanksgiving
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The apostrophe is a perfectly simple puntuation mark - it's just a question of knowing the rules for......
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December 05, 2002 01:26
RE: Come ride with me
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Isn't it fascinating how we try so hard to prevent our children from making the same mistakes that w......
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December 03, 2002 06:58
RE: Brit speak anyone?
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In UK English "U" is usually pronounced as "yew" or "u" (as in "up"). "W" is pronouced as in "wick".......
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December 01, 2002 22:38
RE: Gossip
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According to the OED "gossip" did have an earlier meaning of Godparent, from the old English "godsib......
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November 28, 2002 09:33
RE: More on limericks
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Ah, that explains it. I hadn't thought of the abbreviation "fems". It's not normally used here, of c......
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November 25, 2002 22:50
RE: More on limericks
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I like this limerick but I'm not convinced that the word "fhame's" is correctly spelt. As written it......
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November 24, 2002 22:24
RE: Oxymorons
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I don't know that this is an oxymoron. It is usually used to describe a person who, although lacking......
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November 24, 2002 22:19
RE: "Proper Attire Required..."
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Oscar Wilde said, "...We have everything in common with the Americans - except language, of course........
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November 24, 2002 22:14
RE: "Proper Attire Required..."
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Not only common but also 100% accurate. Why otherwise "customers"? Richard English...
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November 24, 2002 11:10
RE: "Proper Attire Required..."
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I agree. And as customers you have the perfect right to take your custom elsewhere - and I hope you ......
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November 24, 2002 08:17
RE: More on limericks
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I like all limericks, as I have mentioned elsewhere and especially in the other limerick thread. How......
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November 24, 2002 01:02
RE: Queue call: "Can I help who's next?"
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"Clerk" in UK English, rhymes with "park", not with "perk". This is an eccentricity of pronunciati......
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November 24, 2002 00:51
RE: Are you an oldtimer?
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In marketing terms there is a difference. A customer is a person or organisation that buys somethin......
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November 23, 2002 12:05
RE: License to play
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In the UK it's not possible to specify a particular combination of letters and numbers on a plate. H......
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November 23, 2002 02:29
RE: Are you an oldtimer?
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Interestingly Rolls-Royce fitted 8-track systems until around 1978 since they considered that they g......
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November 23, 2002 02:20
RE: Queue call: "Can I help who's next?"
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And even in jobs where the service is essentially clerical in nature (such as a travel agency) the e......
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November 23, 2002 02:10
RE: Burning
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In UK English the "nt" ending is a common and perfectly accurate alternative for the past tense of v......
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November 23, 2002 02:06
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