The Pedant's Revolt
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Tony Blair's book!
"Memoirs".
Shouldn't it have been "A Memoir?" I'm really not sure about this, but "Memoirs" would seem to me to indicate several books of Tony's experiences.
Please put me out of my misery!
"Memoirs".
Shouldn't it have been "A Memoir?" I'm really not sure about this, but "Memoirs" would seem to me to indicate several books of Tony's experiences.
Please put me out of my misery!
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I shall be unable to comment on "The Book" ---- as I have, absolutely, no intention of reading it !
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................. nor me, Neill.
He and his family are money-grabbing layabouts.
He and his family are money-grabbing layabouts.
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For heaven's sake, NEILL, I'm not asking you to read it!NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:I shall be unable to comment on "The Book" ---- as I have, absolutely, no intention of reading it !
Should a memoir be called "Memoirs"? It just sounds wrong. Just as a lyric shouldn't be called "lyrics".
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I read somewhere at the weekend that the writer would wait until it is translated into German, as the title would be (appropriately) 'eine fahrt'. Actually I think that's not a literal translation of 'journey', but it's apposite, all the same!
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I'm waiting until it is "remaindered", and Tesco has it as a BOGOF.
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Our Tescos now has one aisle selling StationAry - presumably it is where they put all items hard to sell, the ones that never move off the shelves!
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Doubts resolved. A prowl through own bookshelves revealed "Nancy Mitford: A Memoir" by the fragrant Harold Acton.Angela Woodford wrote:For heaven's sake, NEILL, I'm not asking you to read it!NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:I shall be unable to comment on "The Book" ---- as I have, absolutely, no intention of reading it !
Should a memoir be called "Memoirs"? It just sounds wrong. Just as a lyric shouldn't be called "lyrics".
And now, flashing onscreen "The Fry Chronicles: A Memoir". (Can't wait to buy this!)
Acton and Fry! The most stylish of men! Sorted, innit?
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Angela Woodford wrote:Doubts resolved. A prowl through own bookshelves revealed "Nancy Mitford: A Memoir" by the fragrant Harold Acton.Angela Woodford wrote:For heaven's sake, NEILL, I'm not asking you to read it!NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:I shall be unable to comment on "The Book" ---- as I have, absolutely, no intention of reading it !
Should a memoir be called "Memoirs"? It just sounds wrong. Just as a lyric shouldn't be called "lyrics".
And now, flashing onscreen "The Fry Chronicles: A Memoir". (Can't wait to buy this!)
Acton and Fry! The most stylish of men! Sorted, innit?
No, it ain't! Sorry to throw a spanner in the works, Angela, but I'm reading a book by Doris Lessing entitled Memoirs of a Survivor. As she's a Nobel Laureate in literature, I think the debate's still open!
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A friend of mine is reputed to have pointed out in one supermarket that the signs saying 'Ten Items or Less' should actually say 'Ten Items or Fewer' and the signs were changed soon afterwards. (Oddly I was well over 50 before I realised that there was a difference!) Unfortunately I do not recall which store it was. I do recall however shopping with the same friend for underwear in M&S and commenting that it seemed odd that bras with larger cup sizes always seemed to be at floor level, when surely it would be the less endowed customers who would find it easier to get down to that level to inspect the goods; a few weeks later in the same store we found that the displays had all been rearranged to a more comfortable level! Someone must have overheard our conversation!
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It's not getting down to floor level that's the problem, it's getting up again.Fjgrogan wrote:I do recall however shopping with the same friend for underwear in M&S and commenting that it seemed odd that bras with larger cup sizes always seemed to be at floor level, when surely it would be the less endowed customers who would find it easier to get down to that level to inspect the goods
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Precisely my sentiments, Mary.
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Shop shoe stands sometimes have the smaller sizes at the top, out of reach for those that wear them! Asda is a prime example.
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... and in general the smallest clothes are always at the front of the rail and the largest at the back - until I get to them!!
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I've given up. In supermarkets I now select the tallest person in sight, smile sweetly and ask him/her to get something from the top shelf for me. For items out of reach I ask the nearest parent with a small child if I may "borrow" the child for a minute. It works all the time!
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