Ladies of Letters: Tuesday's at 10:00

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5 total messages Started by Fleetie Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:13

#99659

Author: Fleetie
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:13

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Just seen on ITV3.

Talk about the march of the grocer's (or should that be "grocers"?)
apostrophe!

Even the BBC does this sometimes, on screen and on its ("it's"?) news
website.

If they paid me 50 grand a year, I'd proof-read their content for them.


Martin - Outraged of Withington, 37-going-on-70

Re: Ladies of Letters: Tuesday's at 10:00

#99662

Author: Paul Ratcliffe
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:39

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On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:13:26 +0100, Fleetie <fleetie@fleetie.demon.co.uk>
wrote:

> Talk about the march of the grocer's (or should that be "grocers"?)
> apostrophe!

Grocers' or grocer's depending on whether it's (it is) referrring to the
plural or the singular of grocer.

> Even the BBC does this sometimes, on screen and on its ("it's"?) news
> website.

You should see some of the stuff that goes on the autocue. I don't think
any of our little baby journos. know where/when to use apostrophes. It's
a good job they only have to read it.

Re: Ladies of Letters: Tuesday's at 10:00

#99663

Author: Mark Carver
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:08

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Paul Ratcliffe wrote:

> You should see some of the stuff that goes on the autocue. I don't think
> any of our little baby journos. know where/when to use apostrophes. It's
> a good job they only have to read it.

Don't they also have to type names and titles into the character generator ?

Iv'e seen soome awfull mishtakes on their.

--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

www.paras.org.uk

Re: Ladies of Letters: Tuesday's at 10:00

#99665

Author: "Graham."
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:48

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"Paul Ratcliffe" <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> wrote in message
news:slrngthk5k.13eu.abuse@news.pr.network...
> On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:13:26 +0100, Fleetie <fleetie@fleetie.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Talk about the march of the grocer's (or should that be "grocers"?)
>> apostrophe!
>
> Grocers' or grocer's depending on whether it's (it is) referrring to the
> plural or the singular of grocer.
>
>> Even the BBC does this sometimes, on screen and on its ("it's"?) news
>> website.
>
> You should see some of the stuff that goes on the autocue. I don't think
> any of our little baby journos. know where/when to use apostrophes. It's
> a good job they only have to read it.


I once saw a "Docter in the House" caption shown as the break-bumper
throughout the film.
--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Re: Ladies of Letters: Tuesday's at 10:00

#99803

Author: Paul Ratcliffe
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:08

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On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:08:28 +0100, Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid>
 wrote:

>> You should see some of the stuff that goes on the autocue. I don't think
>> any of our little baby journos. know where/when to use apostrophes. It's
>> a good job they only have to read it.
>
> Don't they also have to type names and titles into the character generator ?

Aye and it doesn't get a lot better there. Goodwin's pension pot turned
into £160M rather than £16M recently, and it got read out. You might have
thought someone would have done a sanity check on the numbers.

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