You're getting all mushy, Ian.
He also instilled a sense of 'punnery' which knows no bounds. Dad was forever correcting my grammar and my friend's grammar, but me and Robbie Allaby didn't mind.
That's 'Robbie and I don't mind'.
That's okay by I. Me don't mind one bit if you feel the same way as Robbie.
My father had two jobs, as you can see. One was from 9-5, Monday to Friday. The other was full-time. One of the lasting side-effects of my father's pursuit for my own grammatical enlightenment was that I feel almost tortured when I hear bad grammar being spoken, or when I see spelling errors. I make them myself, but I strive not to condemn the language of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Bill Varty (ranked alphabetically, and not by literary greatness).
Yesterday I filled my car with cheap gas (89 cents per litre) at one our our local gas stations. Being a sizable metropolitan area, we have more than one petrol provisioning place. We have two. As I was gassing up I noticed the sign 'WE DO NOT EXCEPT FLEET CARDS'. I had seen it before but this time I had a camera in my pocket. That's when I'm at my most menacing. Click.
I except that no one is perfect and mistakes will be made, accept I do have a problem that no one has corrected this sign. It's been like this for over a year! Sometimes I'll write a blog and post it. Afterwards I read it on-line (dirty truth: I'm one of the five people who read the blog) and I'll find a mistake. I always correct it immediately, usually after punching myself in the nuts a few times. I never say 'oh, those dummies will never notice'. When you've got Bill Varty and Peter T. reading your blog, it damn well better be perfect.
Note: now I'm all paranoid that all future blogs will be put under the microscope.
Yea, me too. That's just how it's going to be, I guess. We might just as well except it.
From time to time, I have noted an error but I must say they are few and far between. In fact, Bill has done such a good job, I am always quite surprised to see any typos or errors! Definitely not the Gleaner!
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