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YAWN YAWN WAKEY WAKEY PART 2....... 2019

Discussion in 'The Muppet Show' started by Marley Farley, Feb 17, 2019.

  1. Verdun

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    Ah, cute Woo :)
     
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      Just out of pedantic interest the announcement should read "Owing to....". Or "Is due to". Due is not a verb.
       
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          ????? Have I missed an announcement somewhere?
           
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            Hello @Upsydaisy I am as mystified as you are:dunno:
             
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              Look at the very first posting on this thread!
               
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                You could have said good morning ,and added a copy of the original text then we would have known what it was.;)

                I shall pass your comment on to @Marley Farley and my gramatical editor @shiney ;):lunapic 130165696578242 5:

                Pedantic
                • excessively concerned with minor details or rules; overscrupulous.
                 
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                  Hi everyone! :spinning: Hope your all well :) and the colds are clearing.

                  Cold and grey here in the NW but I’m not complaining as we are just in February........ roll on spring :hapydancsmil:. Have a lovely afternoon everyone!! :dbgrtmb:
                   
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                    Hi @Flumpy ,mixture of sunshine and showers here but still mild.

                    Decided to do a few indoor chores today . Have cleaned all the ground floor doors which are all glass, all the mirrors and glass in the picture frames. Just sat down for a well earned coffee and hubs came in from his workshop ( garage to you and me) announcing, in what I felt a bit too smug a manner, that the sun had come out and the dinning room doors all look smeary!!!:mute::wallbanging:

                    Told him to be patient as it will soon go in again...grrrrr:sunny:
                     
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                      Grammatical. :whistle:
                      You did that on purpose!!! :nonofinger: :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                       
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                        @shiney itts knot my faught itts thet spel chker agane :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                         
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                          Quite correct as 'Due' is normally used to modify a noun, but in publishing parlance headlines are allowed to be contrary to the accepted norm. :)
                           
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                          @wiseowl

                          Try putting this short poem through your spell checker.

                          Eye halve a spelling chequer
                          It came with my pea sea
                          It plainly marques four my revue
                          Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

                          Eye strike a quay and type a word
                          And weight four it two say
                          Weather eye am wrong oar write
                          It chose me strait a weigh.

                          As soon as a mist ache is maid
                          It nose bee fore two long
                          And eye kin put the error rite
                          Its rare lea ever wrong.

                          Eye have run this poem threw it
                          I am shore your pleased two no
                          Its letter perfect awl the weigh
                          My chequer tolled me sew.
                           
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                            Just to show my age, the owing to and due to grammar thing was one of the questions on my O' Level English language paper in the early 60's. I got a Credit by the way in the days when that was not easy.
                             
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                              That was good as credits were almost as rare as hen's teeth!

                              Don't forget less and fewer or different from and different to. There are a lot of them but the accepted use has changed on some of them. :doh: :noidea: Similar to them changing the taxonomy of plants. :th scifD36:
                               
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