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"Nina K Pettis" wrote in message ink.net... Katz wrote: Marina wrote: Aww, how nice. The best combination in the world; cats and books. How true! Thus, my screen name. I have a T-shirt that shows a pic of a cat draped over a pile of books. It says: Books. Cats. Life is good. Is that the Gorey shirt? I've lusted after it for years... I have that shirt! My friend gave it to me as it was just perfect in describing my life. Nina in Texas, servant to: Snickelfritz (RB), Pixel (RB 12/03), Rusty (RB 9/04), Seth (RB 12/04), Skeeter, Kyle, Jake, and T.K. [Tuxedo Kitty] -- Professional proofreading doesn’t cost – it pays! www.ninaproofs.com |
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Nina K Pettis wrote: Aww, how nice. The best combination in the world; cats and books. How true! Thus, my screen name. I have a T-shirt that shows a pic of a cat draped over a pile of books. It says: Books. Cats. Life is good. Hi Nina Yes, it is the Gorey shirt. I got it from the NPR catalog. But, sadly, they've given into a trend & changed the wording to "...Life is sweet." Another proofreader who reads obsessively, huh? Have you read Eats, Shoots & Leaves? I've just started it. I'm laughing out loud. It's a hoot! Katz |
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melizabeth wrote: Aww, how nice. The best combination in the world; cats and books. How true! Thus, my screen name. I have a T-shirt that shows a pic of a cat draped over a pile of books. It says: Books. Cats. Life is good. Is that the Gorey shirt? I've lusted after it for years... I have that shirt! My friend gave it to me as it was just perfect in describing my life. Mine too. Life is, indeed, good. Katz |
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Katz wrote:
Nina K Pettis wrote: Aww, how nice. The best combination in the world; cats and books. How true! Thus, my screen name. I have a T-shirt that shows a pic of a cat draped over a pile of books. It says: Books. Cats. Life is good. Hi Nina Yes, it is the Gorey shirt. I got it from the NPR catalog. But, sadly, they've given into a trend & changed the wording to "...Life is sweet." Another proofreader who reads obsessively, huh? Have you read Eats, Shoots & Leaves? I've just started it. I'm laughing out loud. It's a hoot! Oh, yeah! I read everything I can get my hands on; this house has at least one bookcase per room... It looks like I'll be moving soon, and the thing I'm looking forward to most is that I'm going to have all my books in one room at last, no matter HOW many shelves it takes. A library of my very own! Heaven! A friend gave me the British version of ES&L, and I loved it. And another British friend gave me "Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary, or why can't anybody spell?" which is fascinating. (You can imagine how much it hurt to type that title exactly as it's written and not correct the typos!) Nina -- Professional proofreading doesn’t cost – it pays! www.ninaproofs.com |
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Nina K Pettis wrote: A friend gave me the British version of ES&L, and I loved it. And another British friend gave me "Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary, or why can't anybody spell?" which is fascinating. (You can imagine how much it hurt to type that title exactly as it's written and not correct the typos!) I never read that one. And yes, I did a double-take at the sight of "Accomodating." I personally think that might be the most commonly misspelled word. Until I read ES&L I didn't know that some British punctuation is different from American. I'm glad I read the Preface & Foreword, or I would have been freaked by the "full stops" after the "inverted commas." LOL |
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Oh! There's a secret to spelling "accommodating"! Decades ago,
I was teaching at a boarding school in England. Spelling was a challenge to some of the girls, so I had a project for my class of 11-years olds -- every week I'd dig up a word and figure out a way of helping them to spell it. "Accommodating" was the first word, and the trick went like this: During the war, two mothers each had a child. Their house was bombed, so the two Mothers and two Children had to find new accommodation. Marion |
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Marion wrote: Oh! There's a secret to spelling "accommodating"! So, can we make that into an airplane banner & fly it over the entire English-speaking world? ;o) I'd like to make another: Attention: "It's" ALWAYS means "It is." SO easy, but I don't think they teach it that easy way. |
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Katz wrote:
Marion wrote: Oh! There's a secret to spelling "accommodating"! So, can we make that into an airplane banner & fly it over the entire English-speaking world? ;o) I'd like to make another: Attention: "It's" ALWAYS means "It is." SO easy, but I don't think they teach it that easy way. YES!! YES!! That's one of my pet peeves... can you tell? Nina -- Professional proofreading doesn’t cost – it pays! www.ninaproofs.com |
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In message . net, Nina
K Pettis writes Katz wrote: Marion wrote: Oh! There's a secret to spelling "accommodating"! So, can we make that into an airplane banner & fly it over the entire English-speaking world? ;o) I'd like to make another: Attention: "It's" ALWAYS means "It is." SO easy, but I don't think they teach it that easy way. YES!! YES!! That's one of my pet peeves... can you tell? I possess both ES&L and ABITC - for anyone familiar with Keith Waterhouse's columns, I should be a member of the Association for the Abolition of Aberrant Apostrophes. One thing that made me *fume* recently - a staffing agency looking for someone to fill a PA type role, "good grammer essential". Fortunately I didn't have a large marker pen about my person at the time .... -- Cathi |
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Cathi wrote: I possess both ES&L and ABITC - for anyone familiar with Keith Waterhouse's columns, I should be a member of the Association for the Abolition of Aberrant Apostrophes. One thing that made me *fume* recently - a staffing agency looking for someone to fill a PA type role, "good grammer essential". Fortunately I didn't have a large marker pen about my person at the time .... -- Cathi I guess "grammer" is important in this job, but spelling isn't. ;o) In ES&L she has examples of "grammer" that include ads for educators. LOL |
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