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[chrisch]

Ah ha. Another candidate for contentious issues on YD.

D 1 CKS

Chris
(I work in marketing I'm paid to be a pedant).

[chrisch]

Despite the strap-line I do NOT have a new member.

Thank you.

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by chrisch

Ah ha. Another candidate for contentious issues on YD.

D 1 CKS

Chris
(I work in marketing I'm paid to be a pedant).

Definitely. Number plates which are;

Very Very small (seen in Leeds - a BMW with a 3 inch by 1 inch number plate on the front and the back)
Can't actually work out the original plate, or use the screws as dots.

I've nothing against legal personal number plates. It's when a normal number plate is screwed with to make something else.

The problem comes when they have an accident and the number people quote is wrong because it doesn't exist. Very selfish!

Mark.

[Dr Stevil]

Originally Posted by Bantam

Definitely. Number plates which are;

Very Very small (seen in Leeds - a BMW with a 3 inch by 1 inch number plate on the front and the back)

Ah.... this would be due to section 7, paragraph iv, of the new compulsory EU directive (NOB-1) which requires Beamer/Merc/etc drivers "...to illustrate clearly the depth of the inadequacy for which you are attempting to compensate with this vehicle"

[HelenM]

Originally Posted by tom

Indeed. I'm sure Helen will be along shortly to expand on this.

I can't... I'm still in shock due to the sign in my hotel bar last night: 'Resident's only' [sic]

I had to try and drown my ire with an eclectic combination of Pimm's, wine and whisky. And now my head hurts. A lot.

Since apostrophe useage seems to be a bit of a recurring theme on YD, would anyone like me to bung up a brief thread on the ways to use 'em, or would that just be really dull and the sign of a tedious bore?

H

[Dr Stevil]

Someone has already beaten you to it!

[Mark Powell]

'An historical perspective'

or

'A historical persepctive' ?

[tom]

Originally Posted by Mark Powell

persepctive

Oh dear.

See now, the thing about the pedants is that we don't actually provide any useful information; we just engage in pointless nitpicking.

Hope that helps

[Helen F H]

We think its "An" as historical seems to infer it is pleural in a strange kinda way. Oh bugger, 6 years since i did A level english...

[aclivity]

I think it's 'A' rather than 'AN', because you are talking about a perspective of the historical type.

Having said that, it probably should be 'THE' historical perspective as using 'A' or 'AN' implies that multiple different histories exist.