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SqueakyVoice

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How many Marie's are there in Hampshire?
« on: November 17, 2023, 01:03:10 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/17/hampshire-villagers-bring-streets-apostrophe-catastrophe-to-a-full-stop
To get to the bottom of this...
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...hadn’t the campaigners got better things to do? Clearly, for some, the answer is no, and the fight goes on.
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Re: How many Marie's are there in Hampshire?
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2023, 02:31:50 PM »
Of course they've got better things to do, but that doesn't stop them doing this, does it? It's not either/or! ::)
On a related topic, what has my computer's spellcheck got against "doesn't"?
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Re: How many Marie's are there in Hampshire?
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2023, 05:22:05 PM »
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punctuation can make that more difficult, particularly with modern computer systems

Whatever else you think about the story, the above is an absolute bullshit excuse. Stop blaming the computers - or more accurately, the computer programmers - for your own incompetence.
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