[Gllug] Business Assistance

[Jonathan Harker]

On Friday 01 Nov 2002 9:23 am, Jim Bailey wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 09:05:47AM +1300, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> > On Friday 01 Nov 2002 8:20 am, Jim Bailey wrote:
> > > I have received a couple claiming to of come
> > > from white farmers trying to get their savings out of Zimbabwe.
> >
> > <grammar police>
> > claiming to of come --> claiming to have come
> > </grammar police>
>
> Many thanks Jon, I have been some what concerned by my slipping
> standards.  I should at least get something out of been brutalised by
> nun at an early age. :)
>
> Peace Jim

No worries dude...

I recieved the following the other day from a Trombone list I'm on, which 
might tickle some funny bones here...

Luv Jon

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Thomas Cox <thomas.cox at sas.com>
To: <trombone-l at po.missouri.edu>
Subject: Pet Peeves

> Fellow listers,
>
> I do not wish to join the grammar police.
> I do not LIKE the grammar police.
> But sometimes, in the name of common decency, a line must be drawn.
> To that end, I hope the following will be of some service.
>
> (To the tune of Do-Re-Mi from the Sound of Music)
>
> THERE: a place, that is not here;
> THEY'RE: contraction for "they are";
> THEIR: a thing belongs to them;
> THEIRS: when they are more than one;
> THERE'S contraction for "there is";
> THEIR'S: is always in the wrong;
> THIER: egregious spelling gaffe;
> which is neither here nor THERE, THERE, THERE, THERE
> (repeat ad nauseum)
>
> ;-)
> Thomas W. Cox



-- 
Jonathan Harker
www.jonathanharker.co.uk


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