Non-motoring > Pedant's corner. Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Roger. Replies: 9
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 Thu 20 Mar 14 21:58 
 Pedant's corner. - Roger.
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 Fri 21 Mar 14 08:46 
 Pedant's corner. - Dog
Hehe! .. I had to look twice at sum of those - unejamacated see!
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 Fri 21 Mar 14 10:15 
 Pedant's corner. - borasport
On the back of an Ashphalt lorry on the way home last night -

'the burners must NOT be left unnattended under NO circumstances'

pick the bones out of that !
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 Fri 21 Mar 14 10:31 
 Pedant's corner. - Zero
>> pick the bones out of that !

Nah, don't want to start a flame war, you know things on here get heated.
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 Fri 21 Mar 14 12:32 
 Pedant's corner. - Roger.
The capital "a" in "asphalt" - describing the type of lorry, was incorrect, as in that instance asphalt was not a proper noun, but more correctly, an adjectival noun.
:-)
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 Fri 21 Mar 14 11:37 
 Pedant's corner. - RichardW
Pedants' corner..... :-)
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 Fri 21 Mar 14 15:21 
 Pedants' corner. - Mapmaker
>> Pedants' corner..... :-)
>>

Not when OP started; only now you've joined in.
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 Fri 21 Mar 14 16:37 
 Pedants' corner. - Cliff Pope
I've just been looking up Speakers Corner, and note that the spelling seems to be about evenly divided between 's and s'.

You could argue either way - that lots of people speak there, or alternatively, that the whole point is that it gives a platform to only one at a time.
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 Fri 21 Mar 14 16:43 
 Pedants' corner. - FocalPoint
"... the whole point is that it gives a platform to only one at a time."

I'm glad you put it like that, Cliff. A lot of people would have put "... it only gives a platform to one at a time", which is not good. "Only" gets misplaced (or should that be "displaced"?) an awful lot.

As an ex-English teacher I find it hard to switch off sometimes...
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 Fri 21 Mar 14 16:46 
 Pedants' corner. - Armel Coussine
But to have the full experience - that of hearing very imperfectly a seamlessly barmy and meaningless stream of mingled ranting and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger intellectual garbage - you have to go there and stand in the crowd of smartass tourists. Haven't been for years but I never lasted more than five minutes.

You want it to be interesting or at least funny, but it never is in my experience.
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