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July 2nd 06, 12:42 PM
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St Johns Wood or St John's Wood?
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 09:54:57 +0100, "Richard M Willis"
wrote: My current pet hate is panini's, which is wrong on two counts. Is panini already a plural word ? Yes, the singular is panino. And if it wasn't already plural it wouldn't need the apostrophe. Not sure what Chris Tolley's third error is. |
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July 2nd 06, 01:14 PM
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Phil Clark wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 09:54:57 +0100, "Richard M Willis" wrote: My current pet hate is panini's, which is wrong on two counts. Is panini already a plural word ? Yes, the singular is panino. And if it wasn't already plural it wouldn't need the apostrophe. Not sure what Chris Tolley's third error is. You didn't the word in quotation marks. ;-) -- http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p14486548.html (FY SW1001 44 (no TOPS class) at Merehead, 26 Jun 1994) |
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July 2nd 06, 01:16 PM
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Chris Tolley wrote:
Phil Clark wrote: On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 09:54:57 +0100, "Richard M Willis" wrote: My current pet hate is panini's, which is wrong on two counts. Is panini already a plural word ? Yes, the singular is panino. And if it wasn't already plural it wouldn't need the apostrophe. Not sure what Chris Tolley's third error is. You didn't the word in quotation marks. ;-) The Hound of the Pedantvilles strikes again. ... didn't *put* the ... -- http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9683757.html (142 095 at Harrogate, 29 May 1999) |
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July 3rd 06, 12:14 AM
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In article Phil Clark writes:
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 09:54:57 +0100, "Richard M Willis" wrote: My current pet hate is panini's, which is wrong on two counts. Is panini already a plural word ? Yes, the singular is panino. And if it wasn't already plural it wouldn't need the apostrophe. I tend to disagree. What is plural in one language can very well become singular in another language. Whether it was plural in the original lanuage does not matter very much. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/ |
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July 3rd 06, 07:25 AM
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Dik T. Winter wrote:
What is plural in one language can very well become singular in another language. Whether it was plural in the original lanuage does not matter very much. Generally, I agree. But some specific cases do get up my nose. e.g. I couldn't care less when people talk about the operas they have seen (opera being a Latin plural of opus). But for some reason it irritates me when one of those Afghani fundamentalist Muslims isn't called a "taleb". (Though on the scale of linguistic irritation, that does come lower than when people talk about "one pence coins"). -- http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p13309738.html (47 365 at Birmingham New Street, 15 Sep 1979) |
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July 3rd 06, 08:16 AM
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"Chris Tolley" wrote in message lower than when people talk about "one pence coins"). What is wrong with "one pence coins" ? Richard [inSG19] -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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July 3rd 06, 08:40 AM
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In message , at 09:16:52 on
Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Richard M Willis remarked: What is wrong with "one pence coins" ? Linguistically should be "One Penny coins", and whatever the merits of an argument that the currency is called Pounds and Pence (of which the coin has a value of Zero pounds and one pence), the coin *does* have "One Penny" written on it. And you wouldn't call a £1 coin a "One Pounds Coin", would you? (Which you would by analogy with "Pounds and Pence") -- Roland Perry |
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July 3rd 06, 09:31 AM
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"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 09:16:52 on Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Richard M Willis remarked: What is wrong with "one pence coins" ? Linguistically should be "One Penny coins", and whatever the merits of an argument that the currency is called Pounds and Pence (of which the coin has a value of Zero pounds and one pence), the coin *does* have "One Penny" written on it. Hmm. I measure things in metres, centimetres and millimetres. I don't call this "m AND cm AND mm". Consequently, I would call our currency pounds xor pence. "penny" does not exist as far as I am concerned. "one-pence coin","one-hundred-pence coin", "one-deci-pound coin", "five-hundred-pence note" are all valid in the same way that a "one-centimetre rule" or a "one-hundred-centimetre box" are all valid. Richard [in SG19] And you wouldn't call a £1 coin a "One Pounds Coin", would you? (Which you would by analogy with "Pounds and Pence") -- Roland Perry -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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July 3rd 06, 09:46 AM
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In message , at 10:31:02 on
Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Richard M Willis remarked: I would call our currency pounds xor pence. So: £1 coin is a "One pounds coin" and £10.50 is either "Ten point five pounds", or "One thousand and 50 pence" I don't think any of this is in general usage. -- Roland Perry |
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July 3rd 06, 09:56 AM
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:31:02 +0100, "Richard M Willis"
wrote: "Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 09:16:52 on Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Richard M Willis remarked: What is wrong with "one pence coins" ? Linguistically should be "One Penny coins", and whatever the merits of an argument that the currency is called Pounds and Pence (of which the coin has a value of Zero pounds and one pence), the coin *does* have "One Penny" written on it. Hmm. I measure things in metres, centimetres and millimetres. I don't call this "m AND cm AND mm". Consequently, I would call our currency pounds xor pence. "penny" does not exist as far as I am concerned. Simply wrong. It's the singular form of pence in the same way that pound is the singular form of pounds. -- James Farrar . @gmail.com |
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