Re: Join the FREE FUEL CARD TRIAL GROUP

SteveH wrote:
PC Paul <urd2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Probably not. It was untrendy for quite a while in the 80's/90's then
the teachers who had grown up not being taught it have to (try to) teach
it to the kids of today...
One of whom seems to be posting here. Seriously though, he puncuates
worse than my dyslexic and slightly autistic son did when he was six.
It is dire. And I certainly wouoldn't buy anything form somebody with
such a bad command of English, and such a lack of respect for potential
customers.

Of course, in this case even if the English was perfect there are many
many other reasons to stay at the other end of a non-contact narrowboat
wrangling device.

Erm, Paul....

You do realise you've dropped a bollock in your grammar rant a couple of
posts back, don't you?

Me? Grammar rant?

Must be somebody else, guvnor.

I guess you mean the "80's and 90's". Debatable.


From askoxford.com:

"An apostrophe is used:
when letters or numbers are referred to in plural form:
mind your p's and q's; find all the number 7's"

I would contend that I was referring to the plurality of 1981, 1982, 1983 etc. and therefore "80's" is correct. You may be thinking of the singular "decade known as the 80s" in which case you would be correct in the larger sense, but wrong in this instance.

But thanks for playing ;-)

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