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Old 10-29-2010, 07:03 AM   #271
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Old 10-29-2010, 08:04 AM   #272
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You beat me to it with the 'oral' reference....
Makes you wonder what this journal is about
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Old 10-29-2010, 09:56 AM   #273
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Old 10-29-2010, 10:42 AM   #274
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Some howlers from authors who depended upon SpellCheck:

"My throat was a little horse."
"My father took us to find chards in the dessert."
"Seaweed had fowled the prop."
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Old 10-29-2010, 06:38 PM   #275
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You beat me to it with the 'oral' reference....
Too tired to work on the 'anal' reference.

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Some howlers from authors who depended upon SpellCheck:

"My throat was a little horse."
"My father took us to find chards in the dessert."
"Seaweed had fowled the prop."
We have classic comment in our house after a boat surveyor (handwritten draft) reported on the condition of the anti-fowling.

We rather unkindly joke about it keeping the goose barnacles away from the hull.
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Old 10-29-2010, 09:32 PM   #276
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Each to his own. Trollope is one of my favourite authors .
I like Trollop too. I also think it's cool that he developed the original phone booth.
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Old 10-30-2010, 03:45 AM   #277
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I like Trollop too. I also think it's cool that he developed the original phone booth.
He was responsible for the introduction of the letter box, not telephone booths. Trollope died in 1882 - rather before the widespread use of telephones.
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Old 10-30-2010, 06:02 AM   #278
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Last night, as well as reading another short case for Sherlock Holmes (must read this omnibus again and mark some of the spelling mistakes I've been noticing - last night I had "would" instead of "wound", makes a big difference to the context of the sentence), I also read the first chapter of Ulysses.
James Joyce seemed to have a solution about where to put punctuation in relation to quotation/speech marks...in the copy I'm reading he didn't use any (speech marks)....
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Thanks for clarification on Trollop, Harry! The letterbox. He worked for the post office didn't he? At least I didn't say he invented email.
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Old 10-30-2010, 11:27 AM   #280
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...I also read the first chapter of Ulysses.
James Joyce seemed to have a solution about where to put punctuation in relation to quotation/speech marks...in the copy I'm reading he didn't use any (speech marks)....
KENNY! Look what Geoff's reading!

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I also read the first chapter of Ulysses.
James Joyce seemed to have a solution about where to put punctuation in relation to quotation/speech marks...in the copy I'm reading he didn't use any (speech marks)....
Ooo er! Proper litritcher wiv dodgy puntuation.
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Thanks for clarification on Trollop, Harry! The letterbox. He worked for the post office didn't he? At least I didn't say he invented email.
Yes, he worked for the post office. And has an "e" at the end of his name .
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Yes, he worked for the post office. And has an "e" at the end of his name .
It is pedants like you that make this place fun! Makes one wonder if such errors are typo's, mistakes, or ignorance. I wonder if the pronounciation would be different with different spelling.
Trollop or Trollope Gives new meaning!
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It's a mistake to rely on Strunk and White; it is often wrong in its pronouncements.

Here's an interesting link noting (among other things) that White didn't even follow his own rules.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/001803.html
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