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Re: Stuff (Was: some other stuff)
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Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:05:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> ...
> The tyranny of the majority, however, can change almost anything.
> How many of us make Xeroxes or receive Fedexes? (Federals Express?)
> *Man*, is the English language ever fun! I love it.
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> best
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> Lindsay
But it's only at its best wiv a PROpper INGlish accent mate, nartymean?.
(Coming to Gosport btw?) Anyway, I've got to hoover the floor...
And another thing, it's "attendees" that really winds me up. It's not a
word, and it's the wrong way round - if you pay, you're a 'payer', not a
'payee'. But no-one wants to be an 'attender' or an 'attendant', and
unfortunately the people pushing out memos to remind you of the voice-mail
about the e-mailed fax inviting you to a video-conference to discuss a
meeting are not the sort to show any concern that they may have just made up
some complete drivel.
Has Dilbert done that one yet?
Jason J Railton
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| (...) I heard someone in outer London last month refer to it as needing to "dyson" the floor. !?! The man creates one silly innovation and suddenly he's a verb. [Re: Gosport, it looks like I'll be in the UK, but whether I can afford to get there, (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I have a colleague who wrote a rather good book about the survey of India, where he specifically addressed the issue with respect to the plural of "Surveyor General." According to orthodoxy plural should be "Surveyors General," but he (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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