From: "Lionel B" <lionelbuk@yahoo.co.uk>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: My Spacebar is OK!
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8kb81$dos$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050613153423.GB15718@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Lionel B
>>> Sent: 13 June 2005 14:48
>>
>>> Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And don't even get me started
>>>> about general misuse of quotation marks. :-)
>>>
>>> Actually, may I get you started?
>>>
>>> In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse
>>> has come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe":
>>
>> Actually, it's known as the "greengrocers apostrophe", just to add a
>> delightfully ironic twist!
>
> Yep. This discussion is proceeding as per tradition.
>
> Lets see. Im wondering how long its going to last.
Till it runs it's course.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-13 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-13 11:29 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-06-13 15:30 ` Lionel B
2005-06-13 15:34 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 16:21 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-06-13 17:06 ` Lionel B [this message]
2005-06-13 17:34 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-13 17:10 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-13 17:33 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 17:50 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-14 9:09 ` Lionel B
2005-06-14 15:58 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-14 12:15 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-14 15:59 ` One Angry User
2005-06-15 0:32 ` zzapper
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-14 13:51 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-06-14 15:57 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-15 9:26 ` Carlo Florendo
2005-06-15 9:26 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 13:52 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
[not found] <000901c56da7$78c10990$bf2fb5d5@keloasc60pobkb>
[not found] ` <20050610135326.GD7942@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
2005-06-10 15:08 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2005-06-10 16:59 ` Christopher Faylor
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