than " instead of "different from" or "different to"
umlaut but it just looks so bloody ignorant. Like a childs spelling mistake.
... and they spell paedophile like someone with a foot fetish.
I wouldn't know what to listen for until you tell me what you're talking about. With a real example rather than a made up, "more or less", and therefore worthless one. In your example it's obvious that the force as a whole is not investigating, so the error is one of fact rather than grammar.
Collective plurals are complicated. You have to be precise when talking about them.
In message , Mike Barnes writes
If you read the police reports on the local force website you will occasionally come across some very obscure grammar.
English grammar was a bit of a mystery to me and they kicked me off the Latin course after one year but wasn't there something called *past pluperfect*? Perhaps it is that:-)
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Pluperfect but not past pluperfect.
"Oliver's army is here to stay / Oliver's army are on their way"
Andy
That explains a sign on the back of a driving school car I saw recently "Beware Sudden Breaking" - well it was a Fiat.
well look at who wrote it....
And yet, the denizens of BBC and NHS canteens respectively are certainly no strangers to a bit of c*ck, so quite why some busybodies decided to get all prudish, I don't know.
Best small ad I've seen was obviously phoned in and possibly voice recognised for print. "Cottage on 1/2 acre... blah... Tripe fishing stream."
Couple of years ago I fell foul of some money-laundering regulation because I'd spent too much on a particular service, using a single payment method. The company involved informed me there was a rolling limit of ?2K. Fine, I thought, if it let it lie for a bit, it will re-instate, it's a rolling limit. No, that wasn't the case at all, it was an absolute limit and the illiterate wanker who'd composed the standard letter that all customers got who fell foul of this, simply didn't know any better. I eventually informed them of my opinion of fools who shouldn't be trusted to be in charge of a litter-picking squad being allowed to compose letters to customers. Needless to say, I didn't deal with the wankers again - and that was my choice.
Wee Wood of Dunne, butt thinks if improofed.
"Lady with large French Chest, 46""
You keep it to yourself, dearie.
Oh I understand now.
Initially I thought that the PP was making a joke that the Hampshire police force were investigating some misuse of the collective plural from a previous post (that had got snipped)
:-(
tim
It is funny how I found this sit I will tell you how ...
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A spammer with a sense of humour, surely not! Brian
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