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In keeping with Political Correctness and quesiosn such as is the names board racist...

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11/09/2008 17:27

Pedants, please come and sort out my apostrophes

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11/09/2008 09:21

What's the name for three dots, like this ... and why is it a bad thing?

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10/09/2008 18:17

Please teach me (and others) about who and whom

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10/09/2008 15:50

Steve Wright R2 this afternoon

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10/09/2008 12:57

If it's not a ridiculous suggestion, what grammatical slovenliness do pedants NOT get worked up about?

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09/09/2008 21:49

The worst sentence ever

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09/09/2008 13:49

Assume or presume what is the difference

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09/09/2008 09:59

big cook little cook - a grammatical deconstruction

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08/09/2008 22:20

Pedants - you won't be impressed with this one....

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08/09/2008 13:06

and another thing...

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07/09/2008 21:19

Teachers and grocers' apostrophes.

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07/09/2008 20:31

opinions on this please

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07/09/2008 13:33

What is more RUDE? (regards to Excuse me)

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07/09/2008 10:52

You have "two choices" or you have "a choice"

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07/09/2008 09:20

Thank you cards - what is the etiquette?

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06/09/2008 20:01

I need a really simple explaination of Nouns, verbs, adjectives and all that fancy grammar stuff

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06/09/2008 19:24

While on the subject of apostrophes...

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06/09/2008 18:32

use of apostrophe with word ending in s

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06/09/2008 18:00

Have to get this off my chest

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06/09/2008 17:35

Grammar pedants - article on BBC website for your perusal

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06/09/2008 17:11

"having (the) chance"

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06/09/2008 16:47

Can someone give me a hand with 'were to' & 'was to' please?

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06/09/2008 16:20

Excuse me please?

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06/09/2008 08:21

Chip off the old block

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05/09/2008 21:53

Is it always 'an' before a word beginning with a vowel?

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05/09/2008 19:02

Reflexive Pronouns

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05/09/2008 13:32

"Let's keep this bumped"

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05/09/2008 12:28

less/fewer - Tesco avoids the issue

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04/09/2008 21:23

What on Earth is ISHOO?

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04/09/2008 20:49

To prophesy

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04/09/2008 16:55

FGS it's PACKED lunch

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03/09/2008 22:24

Please could someone explain to me the difference between adviser and advisor.

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03/09/2008 19:53

He's 7, he's the son of a pedant, he doesn't seem to remember the difference between there, they're, their .. he will have to be punished

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03/09/2008 15:59

Where do the apostrophe go ?

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03/09/2008 13:54

If YOUR happy and you know it. On our SCHOOL cd.

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02/09/2008 22:54

plural of PLC? Is it PLC's or PLCs?

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02/09/2008 09:12

Private or privately

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02/09/2008 08:19

Whooohooo 'ten items or less' [itchy teeth] is

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01/09/2008 21:40

At the Hanley Museum today, I almost lost it...

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01/09/2008 19:54

To Whom It may Concern......?

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01/09/2008 10:01

This should cheer up all you pedants out there ;-)

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31/08/2008 23:49

Advert for clothes shop in my local paper...

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31/08/2008 18:52

Words have gender; people have sex

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30/08/2008 11:18

"average quality childcare": I thought better of you mn, I really did.

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29/08/2008 22:35

Which or what - when? Would one of you please clarify?

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29/08/2008 20:32

Thought you pedants might like this news story...

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27/08/2008 11:48

I know that this is not really the right place to post this,

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26/08/2008 20:50

Is it "x years old" or "x years' old"?

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26/08/2008 10:24

Please can we stop calling fairy cakes 'cup cakes'.

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25/08/2008 20:52

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