OT - Daft word being painted on vans.

[djc]

and me.

[The Natural Philosopher]

[Bob Martin]

Even if the sex of the person is known?

[PeterC]

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I just use "it".

[PeterC]

Oh boy! That /really/ annoys me: 'the actress...they' (and e.g. 'spokesperson' when the gender of the said 'person' is obvious).

[PeterC]

- but, sadly, it's logical. Just what we're used to.

[PeterC]

I wouldn't, of course. 12h post-meridiem is, by definition, midnight, so that makes 22 hours open. 00:00h - 22:00h would be the same.

There is an infinitesimal difference in time between 24:00h and 00:00h, but there's a major difference in real life - the date!

[Frank Erskine]

The English language isn't logical.

Nor is, say, French, where every noun is masculine or feminine.

[Tim Watts]

Bob Martin wibbled on Sunday 31 January 2010 07:59

Obviously, no ;->

[Mike Barnes]

Frank Erskine :

True, but where there's an easy choice between logical and illogical, as in this case, my vote goes to the logical, even if it is Foreign.

Train station it is.

[The Medway Handyman]

[The Medway Handyman]

Bloody hell! Spoke to my daughter about it. She can't administer it after all her training - and people use it as a recretional drug!

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[Bruce]

Harriet Harridan.

[PeterC]

In the early '80s my girlfriend chaired some big committees (college with several thousand students being one of them) and she was always Chairman.

She said that a manageress was a woman who couldn't manage - this from a woman who could stop a high street when in cycling shorts (and also defeated Norman Tebbit on a point of principle).

[Tim Streater]

Bugger that, Huston.