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From: Rexx Magnus on 23 Sep 2005 11:11 On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:00:25 GMT, Steve Hyde scrawled: > > Depends on whether you err on the side of American English or British > English. You might find this helpful... > > > http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/learnt?view=uk > I'll have to bear a little thing in mind; Learned sages have learnt much. Similar to how I remember effect/affect. I'm not affected by this particular effect. -- http://www.rexx.co.uk To email me, visit the site.
From: David Kennedy on 23 Sep 2005 11:12 Sara Kirk wrote: > > I mention it to one supplier I deal with a lot that he always got my > name wrong, and his apology email started "Dear Sarah". The mind > boggles. > :-D -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Flavio Matani on 23 Sep 2005 11:21 Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > I went to the forum described in the piece. Here, a thread about howlers > in children's exam papers: > > <http://www.tes.co.uk/section/staffroom/thread.aspx?story_id=2130382&pat > h=/english/&threadPage=1> Not quite classic material (I've heard better ones from teacher friends, pity I have a brain like a sieve and forget jokes and memorable quips like those...) but good (if good is indeed the right word and can be another word for 'alarming...') Will have to use this reference elsewhere.... -- flavio matani guitar tuition homepage.mac.com/flavio_matani/guitar/ www.livejournal.com/users/flavius_m/
From: Flavio Matani on 23 Sep 2005 11:21 Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > Anyway I thought 'Madeleines' were things you dunked in tea before > > remembering times past? > > I went to the forum described in the piece. Here, a thread about howlers > in children's exam papers: > > <http://www.tes.co.uk/section/staffroom/thread.aspx?story_id=2130382&pat > h=/english/&threadPage=1> The spelling and syntax of those teachers is not fantastic either.... -- flavio matani guitar tuition homepage.mac.com/flavio_matani/guitar/ www.livejournal.com/users/flavius_m/
From: Flavio Matani on 23 Sep 2005 11:23
Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > In article <dh085c$a7g$1(a)gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>, > Richard P. Grant <rpg(a)mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > >I'm assuming that was spam. If Monsieur Mansfield-Devine actually had > >something to contribute then he should realize that binaries are > >explicitly forbidden here > > There weren't any binaries, just two text attachments. Though why anyone > would use an attachment for the main text of an article is a mystery. The same sort of people who email you from Microsoft Word and declare for the hundredth time that that is what everybody uses, what's the problem.... -- flavio matani guitar tuition homepage.mac.com/flavio_matani/guitar/ www.livejournal.com/users/flavius_m/ |