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Posted by Tony Jeffree on January 13, 2008, 3:38 am
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:28:16 +0000, David Littlewood
>Some nice stuff on there but .... OMG, the WORST collection of
>greengrocers' apostrophes I have seen in a long time - even worse than
>recent editions of MEW. (Not even consistent though.)
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>When will people realise that **plurals do not take apostrophes**. It's
>worse than scraping fingers down a blackboard.
Yes...almost as bad as the outbreak of text-speak in recent years,
which has brought us contractions like OMG and the use of
capitalization to provide EMPHASIS...
Oh dear - the grammar Nazis are on the prowl again <Grin>
Regards,
Tony
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Posted by Tom on January 13, 2008, 4:07 am
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Tony Jeffree wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:28:16 +0000, David Littlewood
>
>
>>Some nice stuff on there but .... OMG, the WORST collection of
>>greengrocers' apostrophes I have seen in a long time - even worse than
>>recent editions of MEW. (Not even consistent though.)
>>
>>When will people realise that **plurals do not take apostrophes**. It's
>>worse than scraping fingers down a blackboard.
>
>
> Yes...almost as bad as the outbreak of text-speak in recent years,
> which has brought us contractions like OMG and the use of
> capitalization to provide EMPHASIS...
>
> Oh dear - the grammar Nazis are on the prowl again <Grin>
>
> Regards,
> Tony
>
Gosh. Do you think someone should warn the old codger from Enfield? :-)
Tom
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Posted by John Stevenson on January 13, 2008, 6:52 am
Please log in for more thread options On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:28:16 +0000, David Littlewood
>anywhere@all.com writes
>>Does anyone, please, have experience of these small imported
>>"Universal Tool & Cutter Grinders" ?
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>>Warco, Chronos and RDG are selling them now and RDG have an offer
>>which is substantially less than the others for what you "appear" to
>>get.
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>>http://www.rdgtools.co.uk/acatalog/NEW_LINES_TO_RDGTOOLS.html
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>>(Scroll about 40% down)
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>>Usage would be light & occasional and there's not enough room for a
>>used Clarkson in the workshop.
>>
>Seems to have been moved, couldn't find it. Try giving us the actual
>page reference.
>
>Some nice stuff on there but .... OMG, the WORST collection of
>greengrocers' apostrophes I have seen in a long time - even worse than
>recent editions of MEW. (Not even consistent though.)
>
>When will people realise that **plurals do not take apostrophes**. It's
>worse than scraping fingers down a blackboard.
>
>David
Yes but if you BUY the machine instead of talking about it you can
then use it to grind the extra apostrophes out. <g>
I didn't see Doctors Dolittle and company, purveyors of high class
English books amongst your companies of reference, only purveyors of
engineering goods.
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Posted by ravensworth2674 on January 13, 2008, 8:20 am
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Bill Bennett BDS( Dunelm) wrote :-
'The Quorn must be mentioned. If you have made this grinder and can
use it, then you have established your pedigree as a model engineer'
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Posted by Charles Ping on January 13, 2008, 9:31 am
Please log in for more thread options On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:20:40 -0800 (PST), ravensworth2674
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> Bill Bennett BDS( Dunelm) wrote :-
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>'The Quorn must be mentioned. If you have made this grinder and can
>use it, then you have established your pedigree as a model engineer'
It also demonstrates that you probably have an excess of spare time on
your hands.
Charles
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>greengrocers' apostrophes I have seen in a long time - even worse than
>recent editions of MEW. (Not even consistent though.)
>
>When will people realise that **plurals do not take apostrophes**. It's
>worse than scraping fingers down a blackboard.