Typos

[A.E.B.Bevan at open.ac.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 24198

Bente13 at p... wrote:

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Madame Maxime would be hard to miss due to the fact that 
she's really big. If you figure in the negative... she wasn't exactly 
easy to miss or it would be hard to miss her. Agree?
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Impressed by your English Dente - tried learning Danish years ago and 
I cant imagine me being as good at that...

What we have here is a colloqial expression - it seems in 'British 
English' as our US friends appear to be thrown by it. Its not a 
misprint.

If someone particularly large/fat/loudmouthed/whatever was at a party 
and someone afterwards asked me if I had seen him there I might well 
say " Of course - he isnt exactly hard to miss".

The idiomatic expression is exactly right as used by Harry about 
Madame Maxine. He intends to say, and does so clearly and in standard 
and grammatically correct colloquial english, that If Madame M was 
ppresent at a particlar occasion she would stand out a mile.

Edis