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Old 01 July 2010, 01:38 PM
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Angry FFS, even BBC reporters can't spell
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10475343.stm

It is brakes FFS
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Old 01 July 2010, 01:55 PM
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i like this bit

"She thought the brakes had failed and hit the accelerator again and careered through the wall."
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Old 01 July 2010, 01:57 PM
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Something we agree on at last. It's bad enough on Scoobynet, but there is no excuse for it on a website such as the BBC News site.
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Old 01 July 2010, 02:00 PM
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Strange how many think it is the correct spelling.

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Old 01 July 2010, 02:06 PM
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is breaks not wright!
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see it has been fixed rather sharpish. red face for someone proofing web copy
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Old 01 July 2010, 02:45 PM
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see it has been fixed rather sharpish. red face for someone proofing web copy
Wonder if the proof readers look out for sentences beginning with capital letters and ending with full stops ....

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Old 01 July 2010, 02:49 PM
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cheeky **** (proof read the mistake there)
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Something we agree on at last. It's bad enough on Scoobynet, but there is no excuse for it on a website such as the BBC News site.

Get a room you raving poofters
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Old 01 July 2010, 07:03 PM
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Must have been the same reporter who kept using "broke" to describe how Mark Webber hit Kovalainen... Also been changed now.
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Originally Posted by hutton_d
Wonder if the proof readers look out for sentences beginning with capital letters and ending with full stops ....

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Do you mean an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
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You learn something new every day...

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One of my favs....

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I'm very sensitive to such things - I felt compelled to take this picture on Friday:

http://www.thegaddfamily.co.uk/Other...s/IMAG0004.jpg

Of course for a lot of people that might go 'whoosh!' right over their heads...
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Originally Posted by ricardo
I'm very sensitive to such things - I felt compelled to take this picture on Friday:

http://www.thegaddfamily.co.uk/Other...s/IMAG0004.jpg

Of course for a lot of people that might go 'whoosh!' right over their heads...
lol, that is a pretty big mistake.
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^^^

Edukashun int wot it woz .....

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Originally Posted by ricardo
I'm very sensitive to such things - I felt compelled to take this picture on Friday:

http://www.thegaddfamily.co.uk/Other...s/IMAG0004.jpg

Of course for a lot of people that might go 'whoosh!' right over their heads...
Providing it's a calm day (no storms/earthquakes) then I can't see the problem.
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Originally Posted by ricardo
I'm very sensitive to such things - I felt compelled to take this picture on Friday:

http://www.thegaddfamily.co.uk/Other...s/IMAG0004.jpg

Of course for a lot of people that might go 'whoosh!' right over their heads...
I imagine that was a Stop for buying cards!

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Originally Posted by Leslie
I imagine that was a Stop for buying cards!

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