Seeking Grammar Police Ruling - Typo's
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Jun 4 06:57:30 UTC 2008
Geoff:
Tying up a few loose ends.
Recently, there has been a great deal of debate in the UK over
punctuation etc. A lot of it was triggered by the publication in
2007 of a hard hitting but humorous book: "Eats, Shoots and
Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne
Truss.
The apostrophe has been very much under fire over here because
of its misuse with the use of `s as a plural, particularly on labelling
and notices. I wince every time I drive through Lynton, a small
coastal town about ten miles away where a local pub has been
displaying a huge banner for several months which reads "All
Day Meal's". Ouch.
Picking up on a comment by CJ, there are a number of words in
US English which jar with me as a native UK English speaker and
one at the top of my list /is/ Math instead of Maths. Perhaps I
speak as having been a Maths teacher for 32 years having also
done some English teaching during that period.
Hm. am I wandering into a minefield here? What have I done with
my trusty old tin hat?
:-)
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