That is another possibility of course but it was not for me to assume that
the question was wrongly put.

Roger

"Alan LeHun" wrote in message
...
In article , r.smith10
@ntlworld.com says...
Of course there is no mistake in the question - as long as "Who" is
interpreted as "Which subscribers to this NG".


There is either an "s" missing from the end of "lead" or "lead" has an
errant "a"

--
Alan LeHun

In article ,
Alan LeHun writes:
In article , r.smith10
says...
Of course there is no mistake in the question - as long as "Who" is
interpreted as "Which subscribers to this NG".


There is either an "s" missing from the end of "lead" or "lead" has an
errant "a"


That is indeed what I was referring to.
--
John Hall
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
sit next to me."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 17:17:44 +0200, Gianna Stefani wrote:

Q: Who lead the Pedants' Revolt?
A: Which Tyler.



Was the mistake in the question deliberate?

There wasn't a mistake in the question .... and it was a brilliant
post .... nothing quite like a good laugh (:

Care to explain it for the linguistically challenged like myself?

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:51:36 +0100, John Hall
wrote:

That is indeed what I was referring to.

Shouldn't that be 'That is indeed to what I was referring.'? ;-)

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/4gday

Ayesha wrote:
TudorHgh wrote:


Anyone else think this is poor English? Either the trees are 'still in
full leaf' or 'in full leaf at present', aren't they?

Compared with some of the grammar, spelling and punctuation seen on this
group the sentence quoted could well have been written by Dr. Johnson.
Don't get too fussy!

Q: Who lead the Pedants' Revolt?
A: Which Tyler.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.



Good joke! But isn't the point that every time we admit, ' ah well, it
could have been worse' then we have lost a little more of the language?

And I'm trying not to be tedious about it, and it certainly isn't a
matter of life or death, but the statement I quoted came from an
organisation considered by many to speak with authority. Shouldn't we
expect them to reach a good standard of English, or would you be happy
for it all to read like SMS language?




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 key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can 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.

Joe

Alan White wrote:
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:51:36 +0100, John Hall
wrote:


That is indeed what I was referring to.


Shouldn't that be 'That is indeed to what I was referring.'? ;-)


I think Churchill answered that better than I could: "This is the sort
of English up with which I will not put".

Graham

"John Hall" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Gianna Stefani writes:
John Hall wrote:
In article ,
TudorHgh writes:

Q: Who lead the Pedants' Revolt?
A: Which Tyler.

Was the mistake in the question deliberate?

There wasn't a mistake in the question .... and it was a brilliant post
... nothing quite like a good laugh (:

I wasn't referring to "Pedants", if that was what you were assuming.
--
John Hall

So I belatedly observe - methinks I was so consumed with laughter at the
humour within the original that I did no correctly interpret your own post -
I am in error.

Sorry John.

--
Gianna Stefani
http://www.meteo.jasmin-bear.org