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    Default Re: One of our states is misspelled

    Thx. Fixed in the database, should propagate over the next few hours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cambrensis View Post
    As an appendix to this thread I must sadly report the official death of English. A grammatical error I hear all around me these days, especially among the younger generation, now appears in print!

    I have just returned from my weekly shopping trip; while putting goods away, I checked to see whether an item might be frozen or had to be chilled and read the following:

    "This item might of been frozen previously..."

    Shall we all stand and have a minute's silence? The dregs of speech have now become official. I think I'll revert to Latin! Ave et Vale! (Hail and Farewell!)
    Its a problem!

    Seriously though, imagine what it's like for the manufacturer, trying to recruit someone to write and check the labels on supermarket food. The applicants who aspire to this job, the most challenging and worthwhile paid activity they feel qualified for...

    Now, Cambrensis, reflecting on that, don't you feel you've been rather fortunate to have had life choices?

    PS: The labels to watch out for are the ones good enough to send in to Radio 4's News Quiz!
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    This was not a label attached to the box. I'd quite understand had it been perpetrated at local level. This was actually printed on the carton together with the cooking instructions. I wonder if they should be renamed "cooking destructions"! The usual practice in everything from books to pamphlets is for the copy to be printed and then gone through with a fine tooth comb by the sub editor. However, of late there seems to have been a dearth of good "subbies".

    As for the BBC: a few years ago, reading an article on Archaeological finds in the Aberystwyth area on a BBC web page, I found a reference to pottery having been discovered on a site, and that the pottery had come from the "the Malver Nills". I sent an email and correction was made. However, the point is that there was no effective sub-editng done.

    There are many programmes about auctions on the BBC as you know. and many are repeats. I have heard one of their antiques experts say "You must of" (repeated) on several occasions. This could be edited out quite easily.

    I could go on and on but shall not; I seem, quite unintentionally, to have hijacked this thread, for which I apologise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cambrensis View Post
    I could go on and on but shall not; I seem, quite unintentionally, to have hijacked this thread, for which I apologise.
    You should of started your own thread.


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    Quote Originally Posted by cambrensis View Post
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    There are many programmes about auctions on the BBC as you know. and many are repeats. I have heard one of their antiques experts say "You must of" (repeated) on several occasions. This could be edited out quite easily.

    I could go on and on but shall not; I seem, quite unintentionally, to have hijacked this thread, for which I apologise.
    Surely what you heard was "you must've", a simple elision that many of us use. The idea of programme repeats being edited, even if the snips were valid corrections... I'd prefer my licence fee to be used for better things, like sending David Attenborough around the world, not to employ kids with scissors.

    No problem hijacking the thread. Gazza has fixed the typo, credit due. So the thread is free to unravel where'er it may.
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    I find that Mrs Malaprop lives and is working for the BBC
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    Quote Originally Posted by madelaine View Post
    I find that Mrs Malaprop lives and is working for the BBC
    Or any other media organisation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tony41 View Post
    Or any other media organisation.
    But it offends me most when Aunty does it.
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    Should of applied the fix (hypo) before the high jack... Oh, forgot of da agenda.

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    Default Re: One of our states is misspelled

    eBid could do with a sub-editor on staff.


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