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Shame about the missing apostrophe. Arguably all three possibilities are correct: Owner's Manual - the manual possessed by a singular owner Owners' Manual - the manual possessed by all owners Owners Manual - the manual intended for all owners but not necessarily possessed by them and of the three I personally think the last is most appropriate?
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Sad fact that so many don't get a proper grounding in the English language Bob!
Graham (G4FUJ)
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Sad fact that so many don't get a proper grounding in the English language Bob! /rant mode This is something that winds me up. So many people say that correct spelling, punctuation and grammar is unnecessary. Yet, we live in a world where large numbers of people believe they will make their fortunes online. If you are selling anywhere, including online, the words you use (especially written words) form part of the sales contract. Grammatical and spelling errors increase ambiguity. Ambiguity in sales contracts can be very expensive. /end rant mode
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/rant mode
This is something that winds me up. So many people say that correct spelling, punctuation and grammar is unnecessary. Yet, we live in a world where large numbers of people believe they will make their fortunes online. If you are selling anywhere, including online, the words you use (especially written words) form part of the sales contract. Grammatical and spelling errors increase ambiguity. Ambiguity in sales contracts can be very expensive.
/end rant mode Absolutely. It's important to know your dermot otherwise everyone will know you're dermot. There's a big difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
Tim H.
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/rant mode
This is something that winds me up...
/end rant mode Paul, a forward slash indicates a code end. You should have written: [rant] This is something that winds me up... [/rant] 
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/rant mode
This is something that winds me up...
/end rant mode Paul, a forward slash indicates a code end. You should have written: [rant] This is something that winds me up... [/rant] Well spotted, Ian. I suppose you're favourite's are: [Pedant mode] [/Pedant mode]
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Should be referred to as a slash when writing English language but a forward slash in computer speak, probably due to our American cousins?
Every TV announcer gets it wrong.
This is something that really winds me up, (well, not really).
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You chaps are going to pop a fuse shortly.
As I expected the software companies were using English as a language selection.
They would offer US English in some cases as well as British English or UK English.
I am now finding that the only option in the selection is English, which is in fact American,
There is no option for a UK character set with £ etc.
On asking one vendor he said that the effort required to maintain two copies of the same language with such a small difference was not commercially viable.
Fun times ahead.
Don't worry, Boris will fix it for us by adopting the US$ as our currency.
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I am impressed that the translate engine deepl differs between US and UK style of English language. www.deepl.com
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My current rant is the Cadbury ad "A glass and a half in everyone" Where it used to be "A glass and a half in every one" referring to the milk in a bar.
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