SPAGridden with shame

[GulPlum <plumeski@yahoo.com>]

Tabouli wrote:
> > "I've been a spelling pendant since my teens"
> 
> (hangs head, detatches necklace of spelling snobbery and casts it
> aside, crimson-cheeked)

Don't worry. 

Rule of the Internet 101: "Any online communication the subject of 
which is correct grammar or spelling, will inevitably itself contain 
an equally or more grievous error."

That rule has bitten me before, and will doubtless do it again. :-) 

BTW, talking of pedantry: to Steve (BBoy_mn), with that in mind (and 
in  a spirit of fun rather than of *making* fun of people)...

in a message on the main list, you wondered whether you'd used "it's" 
properly. You had. Top marks. :-)

However, in the previous paragraph, you said "... someone who's 
personality..." "Who's" is an abbreviation for "Who is"/"who has". 
The spelling you want here is "whose" (as I said in a previous 
message, in English, genitive forms of pronouns do not take 
apostrophes, hence "its", "his", "ours", and of course "whose", 
etc.). 

-- 
GulPlum AKA Richard, who is sure that despite having proof-read this 
message, he has doubtless missed a glaring mistake somewhere and is 
open to flames... :-) 
(P.S. I'm off for three days. No more from me until Tuesday.)