Re: Royalty for Commoners (OT)

Deary me, you found me out!

Imagine that, an Englishman cutting and pasting from a bookmarked
English travel site to get the correct spelling! (since you are a
stickler for nits. P.S. I like to put in a few nits to keep the
nitpickers happy ;-)

Sherlock Stewart does it again, - and it only took him 20 seconds.

Peter Stewart wrote:
> l
> "Peter Stewart" <p_m_stewart@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:6HNWe.50209$FA3.12520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Richardson is so stupid that he went looking for tidbits of information
> > about Turkey on travel agents' websites, and came up with this piece of
> > transparent balderdash: "the Turks between Gumbet and Gümüslük speak the
> > best English". As if the capacity to speak a second language emanates from
> > the soil or the water supply in small & clearly defined pockets of a large
> > country! How stupid does he think SGM's readers might be? Obviously
> > "Uriah" found some spiel about a particular holiday destination, trying to
> > suggest to British travellers that they would feel at home in the promoted
> > resort.
>
> I was right - here it is:
>
> http://travelforumz.com/-quiet-life-Bodrum-peninsula-ftopict6.html
>
> The tidbit that "Uriah" Richardson found and plagiarised, after a week of
> desperate searching, comes from a blurb of 26 July 2003, from TimesOnline
> Travel, where Nicholas Roe served up the tripe that I quoted above. See the
> 18th paragraph in particular:
>
> "Pick any resort north of Gumbet, maybe missing out Turgutreis if big-resort
> bustle bothers you, and you can't go far wrong, though bear in mind that the
> resorts between Gumbet and Gümüslük speak the best English. Farther north
> you hit villages such as Turkbuku, aimed at the local market, and Torba, at
> the top, has many English speakers."
>
> The opriginal can be found at
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,71-755790,00.html
>
> Peter Stewart

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