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If you're going to start a sentence with 'or', I really think you should follow it with a comma and ,perhaps, capitalize. 8)
Quote from: djbrenton on July 04, 2008, 00:00:53If you're going to start a sentence with 'or', I really think you should follow it with a comma and ,perhaps, capitalize. 8)Is it ever acceptable to begin a sentence with the word "Or"? Surely this does not qualify as a sentence?
Quote from: Paul Long on July 04, 2008, 08:40:05Quote from: djbrenton on July 04, 2008, 00:00:53If you're going to start a sentence with 'or', I really think you should follow it with a comma and ,perhaps, capitalize. 8)Is it ever acceptable to begin a sentence with the word "Or"? Surely this does not qualify as a sentence? The next time you read a novel notice that books these days are often not written in complete sentences which is considered fine because people don't talk in complete sentences, and it helps the story flow more naturally.
thinking about it as an OCD pedant, there's a real problem with this hard shoulder - since it is made up of sections, it isn't continous, hence can't be discontinuous. Also since these sections aren't touching it isn't contiguous, hence can't be discontiguous. It also isn't disconcatenated, partly because it isn't linked together, and partly because I just made the word up. So as far as I can think, there is no word that describes the motorway hard shoulder, with or without bits missing discofever is something else entirely
There should be a word for that involuntary twitch your writing arm gives when you's it true that there isn't an English word for the Back of the Knee? back of the hre doung Sudoku and you think you've got a number and then immediately realise you're wrong[/uote]A word for an involuntary twitch - hows about tic?valmarg
And to go off at a complete pedantic tangent, how about, when you pay for something that is £x.99p, and the shop assistant says, 'and there's one pence change'.NO!! Pence is the plural of penny, so there is no such coin as the one pence piece. It is a penny, ie and a penny change.valmarg
the pence thing came about because of decimalisation, when coins stopped having special names. 50 pence, 10 pence, why not 1 pence?Surely monies is OK? Moneys may be right too, but I'd never say it, I mean write it.