Well done Shirley and crew

[AIDY]

Well done Shirley Robertson and crew, Gold for Team GB in the sailing

 

[jimi]

.. good to see the clan holding its own ..

 

[benjenbav]

Re: A pedant writes

It's "it's"

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[Jeremy_W]

Without wishing to be even MORE pedantic:- It's a "Great Britain & Northern Ireland" medal.

How many seconds of ACTUAL sailing will it merit on TV?

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[alldownwind]

Re: A pedant writes

Actually, to be counter-pedantic, it's its, correct as used above. If 'its' is used as the possessive, it is a word on its own. It's in the dictionary if you doubt me.

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[benjenbav]

Re: A pedant writes

Yes, of course; but before Jimi changed his post he was using the offending term in place of "it is".

Will now stop sounding like Lynne Truss, unless someone would like to give me the sort of money she has made from punctuation: on which subject as Billy Cystal put it, "Anyone who wants to be rich and famous should try being rich first: it pushes most of the right buttons."

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[jimi]

An allytereight rites

me .. change the goal posts .. never .. anyway holding it is own just don't make sense!

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[benjenbav]

Re: A pedant writes

This is worrying! The post said something like:

Actually its shirley robertson and crew.

Then next time I looked it had been changed:

Am I seeing things??? "Doctor, doctor, what do you say, how 'bout lettin' me out today?"*




*with apologies to Randy Newman

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[racingron]

Re: An allytereight rites

Regardless, this is about Shirley and her crew winning with a race to spare - brilliant. Come on the rest of the sailing team.

Who knows, this might even merit more than 2 minutes of coverage this evening?

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[steve_cronin]

\"Golly!\"

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[Oldhand]

... especially a Dundee Robertson...

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[steve_cronin]

Then:-

Why isn't it "The United Kingdom" since that is (pedantically) "The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland"?

Steve Cronin



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[Nickel]

Re: Then:-

Maybe the Channel Islands opt out? After all the United Kingdom is the United Kingdom of Ggreat Britain, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands

The political geography of our islands is probably as confused as it gets, but you would expect after 20+ tries in the Olympics, they could get the name right!

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Being paranoid simply means - having all the facts.

 

[Oldhand]

Re: Then:-

Too near to Y..UK?

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[jimi]

Re: \"Golly!\"

We nearly called our boat JamJar .. cause it would be full of Robertsons.

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[robp]

Yes indeed. First gold we get, well done!

Edge of the seat stuff in the badminton but narrowly missed gold. Great performance though.

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[Jeremy_W]

Re: Then:-

>>> Why isn't it "The United Kingdom" since that is (pedantically) "The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland"?

At a guess because the Three Letter Acronym (UKG? UKI?) would be dangerously close to UKR (Ukraine).

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[EdEssery]

Re: An allytereight rites

Several hours of Sailing coverage are scheduled on the BBC Interactive channels on Saturday....

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[kds]

Re: A pedant writes

You are wrong, you know !
Its is quite acceptable, a pedant may prefer its" , but there is no letter missing and so no need for @ in middle of word.
Ken

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[Jeremy_W]

Re: An allytereight rites

Fantastic if you have BBCi, but the amount of coverage offered on the main "free to air" channels has been attrocious. Keep complaining everyone!

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