[Gllug] Monthly GLLUG grammar report

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:54, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Wed 27 Nov, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> > 
> > Dylan wrote:
> > 
> 
> > >
> > Just because there is a great mass of ill-educated peons 'out there' 
> > masquerading as 'the public' does not mean that we must pander to their 
> > lack of will to learn. 
> > 
>    My dad was trying to do some research into family history, and complained
> that so few people knew how to spell, or even write, that he often needed to
> widen his searches to cover a range of names which sounded vaguely similar,
> over a range of possible dates. This was not helped by the way that many
> births were only registered if the the child survived for at least a year or
> two.

Even more confusing is the tendency to call a son after his father, then
if he (the son) died, to give the next one the same name, possibly
repeating several times.  This means that if you find a "John Smith"
with the correct parents and the right sort of date, you still aren't
sure you've got the right person.

John

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