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Grammar, speling and punkchooation pedants

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    She’s not posted since 7th May. Hopefully she’s just busy in the garden 🤞 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Spling garmer and punchewayshun is my day job😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    No wonder you’re so good at it @B3 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Eye tri too hyde mi lite undre a bustle
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Surely that's what bustles were for? 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Definitely -  and somewhere to keep your sandwiches.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    :D  B3, can't stop larfing.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    "King Charles I walked and talked; half an hour after, his head was cut off."

    The "I", in this context, is not a pronoun, it's a Roman numeral.  King Charles the first.

    But the other suggestion works just as well. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    😀
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    know im wyshin i hadd a dei job     omg lol rol
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
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