Each pear, pear, plum...

[TheRedWorm]

... in fact many other items too in Sainsbury's yesterday, bore labels announcing that they were 83p (or whatever) "per each".

Good grief.

God lordly God, so you do. That is worse. I thought that someone had just set up the label printing computer thing wrongly. But it appears that some people actually think it is correct.

It can't be correct -- can it??

No, definately not correct.

But then, neither is "ATM machine" or "PIN number", and everybody says those.

Try this please - "substance-related" - one word or two? I say one compound word. Appears in the acronym ASRO for 'Alcohol and Substance-related Offending'.

Please tell me the acronym should strictly be ASO.

or it appears as "substance related". Without the hyphen. Which is just plain wrong. Isn't it?

I think 'related' needs to be there in full, but when an acronym ASO should suffice. yeah?!

The hyphen is better, yes.

it hinges, I think, on the issue of the hyphen. If hyphenated, it should become one compound word. ASRO can only be correct IF there is no hyphen. Which, in my universe, would be wrong.

Yes there should be a hyphen, to show that the words are jointly qualifying the noun.

But if the couplet occurred in a construct like 'her offending was not substance related', it would not need a hyphen.

Really there ought to be a 'hanging' hyphen after 'alcohol', to show that it too is qualifying 'offending' jointly with the word 'related.

So... 'alcohol- and substance-related offending'

..but sometimes it's daft to be too correct

Eye thank yew v muchos.