Desert Orchid
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"1400 kilometers in 14 days"
Does no-one proof read this sh1te?
Does no-one proof read this sh1te?
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Leslie Graham's Tour De France
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Diamond Geezer
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We had a BBC weather presenter yesterday posting on Twitter about break failure on a train.
Desert Orchid
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No-one spotted the deliberate mistake yet???
Colin Phillips
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My reaction was - what's Lesley Graham know about anything alone the TdF?
Diamond Geezer
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No hyphen in no one
Desert Orchid
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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
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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
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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...
When I started primary, 'to-day' and 'to-morrow' were the norm, according to my teacher...
