Leslie Graham's Tour De France

[Desert Orchid]

"1400 kilometers in 14 days"

Does no-one proof read this sh1te?

 

[Diamond Geezer]

We had a BBC weather presenter yesterday posting on Twitter about break failure on a train.

 

[Desert Orchid]

No-one spotted the deliberate mistake yet???

 

[Colin Phillips]

My reaction was - what's Lesley Graham know about anything alone the TdF?

 

[jinnyj]

To be fair Colin, she knew jack sh*t about racing!

 

[Diamond Geezer]

No-one spotted the deliberate mistake yet???

No hyphen in no one

 

[Desert Orchid]

No hyphen in no one

No...

It's Lesley Graham, not Leslie.

(I remember it because her name came up years ago in the anagram thread. It works out as 'really shag me'.)

 

[Diamond Geezer]

According to the Oxford English dictionary both no one and no-one are correct but it is only latterly (not sure how latterly) that the hyphenated version has been deemed acceptable.

 

[Desert Orchid]

Yes. I was taught it was hyphenated at primary school so latterly might cover the last 50 years!! Then again, there's no guarantee my primary teacher was right. I actually thought the non-hyphenated version was newish (or should that be new-ish?)

When I started primary, 'to-day' and 'to-morrow' were the norm, according to my teacher...