This year I have heard the Prime Minister and the First Minister say they are going to "try and" do something.
If I had written "try and" instead of "try to" when I was in P6 the teacher would have strung me up
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13-08-2011 05:35 PM #61@hibs.net private member
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13-08-2011 07:28 PM #62@hibs.net private member
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Have several times now heard BBC radio newsreader/announcers get their singulars and plurals muxed ip.
As in "Postponement of several fixtures were necessary last week".
This habit of making grammatical mistakes are starting to annoy me.
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14-08-2011 09:00 AM #64@hibs.net private member
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I assume that most of the posters who write 'surely' as 'shirley' are doing so in reference to the outstanding film 'Airplane!'.
Originally Posted by Jim44
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