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That Chaucer lad would have had the knuckles bet off him in my school!
Mine too, which is why I probably rebel about pedantic punctuation.
At my infant school the head teacher was a sadist. Even as a five year old every spelling or punctuation mistake was “rewarded” with a rap across the knuckles with a ruler.
That Chaucer lad would have had the knuckles bet off him in my school!
Mine too, which is why I probably rebel about pedantic punctuation.
At my infant school the head teacher was a sadist. Even as a five year old every spelling or punctuation mistake was “rewarded” with a rap across the knuckles with a ruler.
Mrs Murray used to grab us by the hair and bank our heads against the back wall of her classroom if we got our times tables wrong. We were five. She was arguably one of the better teachers we had…..
Be assured that the 20 or so correspondences I’ve had from various arms of Weatherbys so far this week have all been absolutely meticulous in observing strictures of spelling and grammar, including all of those to have been created by the youngest members of staff. Professional integrity prevents any behaviour other than that.
As a former writer of some (minor) Weatherbys missives and publications, I can assure you that anything which left my printer was both grammatically correct and punctuated properly.
High standards did not rule throughout, however, but a fairly good job was done of ensuring that the people who wrote things are at least semi-literate, and that somebody fully literate proof-read the more important items.
FWIW, IMO, the greengrocers’ apostrophe should be a hanging offence. I also wholeheartedly applaud the actions of Lynne Truss, who once stood all day underneath a billboard advertising the film "Two Weeks Notice" with an apostrophe on a stick.
High standards did not rule throughout, however, but a fairly good job was done of ensuring that the people who wrote things
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at least semi-literate, and that somebody fully literate proof-read the more important items.
Stay in the past tense !
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our French teacher used to throw a board rubber at us, and she didn’t aim to miss either…..
Some of you may have seen it reported that Birmingham council are removing all possessive apostrophes from their road signs (King’s Heath etc) on the grounds that we’re all too dumb to understand them…
Regarding the horse-naming convention, anyone remember a hurdler called ‘400Nocte’ that used to run in the dim and distant past??
Mike
It should be "Big Bucks" as he’s named after the former Pro Bull Riding Champion Bucking Bull of the same name
FWIW, IMO, the greengrocers’ apostrophe should be a hanging offence. I also wholeheartedly applaud the actions of Lynne Truss, who once stood all day underneath a billboard advertising the film "Two Weeks Notice" with an apostrophe on a stick.
Ironically, Lynne Truss made quite a few punctuation errors in her book – Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
Louis Menand, writing for the New Yorker, was quick to point out Lynne Truss’s mistakes when reviewing the book.
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I thought it was reported on the Morning Line last autumn, erm I forget, big buxum blonde – but Weatherbys wouldn’t allow it.
Regarding the horse-naming convention, anyone remember a hurdler called ‘400Nocte’ that used to run in the dim and distant past??
I do, but my take on that was always that his name was frequently rendered that way merely for convenience in publications such as those Haig Whisky NH Annuals.
Reason being: the name spelt out in full, i.e.
Four Hundred Nocte
, still fell within the 18-character limit for a horse’s name.
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Regarding the horse-naming convention, anyone remember a hurdler called ‘400Nocte’ that used to run in the dim and distant past??
Mike
Trained by Nicky Henderson in the early eighties; I only remember him from newspapers as I don’t think he was good enough to run in the big televised races.
It should be "Big Bucks" as he’s named after the former Pro Bull Riding Champion Bucking Bull of the same name
But I’d read that Stewart-Brown wanted to name it Big Buxsome Blonde (or something similar), burt was denied that choice – and so the Big Buck’s is the ‘acceptable’ versuion of the intention?
Hence the apostrophe is fairly irrelevant from a gramatical point of view anyway?
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