Is there a big sand bank above sea level in the middle.

I have claimed this to my friends many times, but everyone keeps telling me I am wrong. Am I?

 

yes there is, they used to do hovercraft trips out to it in the summer. just don't ask me the name, try google.

 

The Goodwin Sands

 

lol .......maybe you mean goodwin sands ..and they play cricket on it during the summer ............but its not quite in the middle ..........more like 5 miles off sandwich

 

MMmmm that's a well written piece..........

 

Damn i thought it was going to be the isle of white

 

also 6 miles aint far off half it's narrowest bit which iirc is ~20 miles

 

English Chanel?

I thought Chanel was french and came in the No.9 variety?

Oh, "channel"....sorry

 

The spelling & maths on SN these days - I don't know :

1) "chanel"
2) "also 6 miles aint far off half it's narrowest bit which iirc is ~20 miles" - 6/20 is nowhere near 10/20
3) "isle of white"

I ask you!

 

imlach......you may think you're being funny but if these people have genuine problems with reading and writing you won't feel so good about it.....bullying the thick kid in class was never cool and it doesn't make it cool now we're all grown up.

 

Givn 957% of posts on hear have bad spelling & mathamatics, I recon your shouting up the wrong branch. 9 out of 7 people agree with me.

 

6 is closer to 10 than it is to 0, and my math is just fine thanks, my english may suck but to be fair i don't care

Si

 

oopsie hangs head in shame at isle of wight bit though

 

I know, I'm just a pedant. No offence meant Mr Cookie.

Just for the mathematicians out there, 6 is also closer to 8 than it is to 3. Interestingly, 22B hex equals 555 decimal (ah, the old ones are the best!).

 

imlach no offence taken

Oh and by the way there's a full stop in Mr.Cookie

 

No, it is an abbreviation mark.

 

Imlach
LOL

My spelling/grammar alert went off too, and was going to post the same, including the Chanel/French thing, but you beat me to it

BTW, Care to have another try (or was it deliberate )

 

Actually, Fowler's Modern English Usage says there's no need for a full stop when the last letter of the abbreviation is the same as the last letter of the real world. So "Mr" is short for "Mister" and doesn't need a full stop.

Where's MarkO when you need him?

 

I'm sure we can crank up the generator to let Mark post for five minutes later on

 

Where's Otway? In Edinburgh, IIRC Oh bugger, that's where i'm going on Sunday, better put a disguise on

 

Quality

Cheers
Kav

 

Errr.....I'm more worried that's the only spelling mistake you spotted. Try again, and decide for yourself if it was deliberate!

 

Don't worry, I did spot the others, just tongue in cheek from me

 

LOL @ Imlach complaining about people's spelling and maths.
957% of posts? That would mean there are more posts with errors than there are posts. I think you probably meant 95.7%!

 

BMWhere? - Errm, I think you'd better look up the word sarcasm and irony in the dictionary.

 

Hello

The level of spelling and grammar on the internet as a whole is quite shocking. I am not sure if it is because people feel that the internet is an "informal" place and as such can't be bothered to think about the way that they write.

What worries me more is that I receive emails written in a similar style, and I do not think that is acceptable in business.

Having said all that, I am probably just particularly @nal as I even use capital letters and punctuation in text messages!

Steve.

 

PMSL

 

I'll bet you typed that reply very carefully and checked it a couple of times, just to be sure,

 

Not just you mate, even though my spelling is appauling to say the least. I still try and make my messages legible.

 

boxst
Totally agree. One of my pet hates too. However, I think you are being too charitable - my pet theory is that the majority of people using the internet (present company excluded, naturally ) are just plain thick!
Look at the shocking amount of mistakes in thread headers on here (that can't be edited)