*SPAM?* [HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: FAQs?

[Barry Arrowsmith]

>
>  The British Open? I saw an ad for that yesterday -- I love watching
>  golf, I'll watch it with you! Well, sort of -- I bet it's tape delayed
>  here.
>

Poor thing. We get it live non-stop from 9am to 7.30pm with no 
commercial breaks. It's a hard day's work not  missing a stroke.

>  Come to think of it, I thought you spelled categorizing with an S?
>  Even I do, because it's easier than reaching the Z on the keyboard. On
>  the other hand, though, American spelling is more fun in Scrabble...
>

Yes, I  do  normally,  but I like to maintain the whinging stance I 
took way back at the start of this board, complaining about 
trans-atlantic verbal neologisms.


>  Time for my whinge: I just got my UK editions, and I've been using
>  them to check chapters, and they're a pain!  The US editions have
>  chapter number at the tops of the left pages and chapter title at the
>  tops of the right pages -- very convenient. But Bloomsbury has put
>  "Harry Potter" on the left pages instead, so you only see the chapter
>  numbers on their first pages. *grumble* I *know* I'm reading Harry
>  Potter, for heaven's sake!
>

But Anne! This is the right way to do it! You're supposed to memorise 
the index before you start. Deary me, can't  make life to easy for the 
reader, now can we?

Barry

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