29-11-2021, 09:17 AM
What a relaxed Pedants’ Corner, not quite the refuge for rivet counters that Lord Gnome offers. And here we have widespread cultural references. Graham, do you suggest that one should say Elizabeth Taylor IS Cleopatra, or that Richard Burton WAS Mark Anthony? And Duncan, surely for that costume drama the script should say “ I were stood as he were sat by there.” Mr Hobday, the people using roadmap cannot be trusted further than you could throw a Scammel gearbox. Roadmap, road map, gradient profile or circuit diagram, believe not a word, or indeed anything at all. As for the greengrocer’s apostrophe, there used to be an electrical person in Suffolk whose sign outside the workshop said “magnetoe’s” Are we all hiding from our workshops until it gets a little warmer?