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Er, Mick - on this thread:


However, doesn't is spelt with only one O.


Pinhead.



You have been defeated by your spelling by a superior and magnanimous opponent.



Your last post "...that didn't take long" should've at least finished with a full stop.


Pinhead.



Your previous post to that also lacked the appropriate punctuation.


Pinhead.



However,


Your eventual downfall mirrored that of the other pinhead scoffing from afar. You ignored the basic etiquette of a full stop.


Pinhead.



You made the school girl error of starting a sentence with and.


You have no idea how good that just felt.


Pinhead.



Funny though.


Edited again to say that wasn't meant to be mean to BBW, rather to point out the bleeding obvious to MM.

annaj Wrote:

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> Get ready to feel even more of a pinhead.

>

> From the Compact Oxford English Dictionary (I

> can't find it online, but I have my copy open in

> front of me):

>

> "Contrary to what many people think, it is not

> wrong to start a sentence with a conjunction such

> as and or but. The practice is common in

> literature and can be effective."



Can I say that really it should have read; "As", "And" or "But".

>>It's them bleeding long-haired poets wot started the rot, I reckon.<<


Well what do you expect from a geezer from Peckham who not only covered house walls in graffiti but could not even spell "tiger"?!


Rupert Brooke had exquisitely-barbered short hair though...


"And I shall find some girl perhaps

and a better one than you..." B)

On the one and only occasion I had afternoon tea in Grantchester the honey was served in a tiny plastic pot emblazened with the word "Kraft"....so I have to agree with you, even if "and is there jam still for tea?" would be less evocative as well as metrically compromised. But I still say it's ok to begin a sentence with a conjunction.B)

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