The whole of Sheiffield under water.

Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

"Derek Geldard" wrote in message
What's the apostrophy for ?

Its to indicate something is missing.

How do you indicate a missing apostrophe?

--
"Checking identity papers is a complete waste of time. If anyone can
be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".

On 25/06/2007 23:38, Mary Pegg wrote:

Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

"Derek Geldard" wrote in message
What's the apostrophy for ?
Its to indicate something is missing.
^
|

How do you indicate a missing apostrophe?

Point at where it belongs with an arrow as above.

Mary Pegg wrote (apparently) in uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon 25 Jun 2007
23:38:10:

Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

"Derek Geldard" wrote in message
What's the apostrophy for ?

Its to indicate something is missing.

How do you indicate a missing apostrophe?

Generally by posting to the Usenet, I believe.
--
MrGuest
Always, seemingly, on the road to nowhere

On 25/06/2007 23:37, Mary Pegg wrote:


What missing 'e'? If it was missing it would have read "killfil'd",
which is rather nice, but not what was written.

killfile[ed] - killfile'd

"Mary Pegg" wrote in message
...
Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

"Derek Geldard" wrote in message
What's the apostrophy for ?

Its to indicate something is missing.

How do you indicate a missing apostrophe?

Its' done like that.


--
"Checking identity papers is a complete waste of time. If anyone can
be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".

In article ,
Andy Burns wrote:

killfile[ed] - killfile'd

On the analogy of file + ed - file'd, presumably.

-- Richard



--
"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

On 26/06/2007 00:00, Richard Tobin wrote:

On the analogy of file + ed - file'd, presumably.

or even as in Shakespeare
A 'tis in my memory lock'd

Andy Burns wrote:

On 26/06/2007 00:00, Richard Tobin wrote:

On the analogy of file + ed - file'd, presumably.

or even as in Shakespeare
A 'tis in my memory lock'd

If old Will wrote "accursed" in one line and "accurs'd" fifteen
lines later [1], there was a reason for it.

"Killfile'd" is just wrong.

[1] Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V:
"Accursed time! unfortunate old man!" and then
"Accurs'd, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!"

--
"Checking identity papers is a complete waste of time. If anyone can
be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".

"Steve Walker" wrote in message
...
Sam Nelson wrote:

Some poor bloke drowning in front of a bunch of helpless firefighters
because he had his foot trapped in a gate is pretty serious stuff.
Isn;t it?

Something's funny there. They must've had access to Fire Service &
Police Diver breathing apparatus (which would've kept him alive for a hour
or so underwater), and they were surely carrying cutting equipment (which
would've dealt with the trapped foot, by amputation in the last resort).
Even without the technology, if they'd strapped a harness under him and
then set 6 beefy firemen pulling hard he would've come free eventually
(perhaps with a broken, torn or even missing foot).

Will be interesting to hear the full story when it emerges.

From what I gleaned from the News. The fire & rescue service were in
attendance for approx. 3 hours. they demolished a wall to try & divert the
flof water. There came a point where they kept him alive by use of a mouth
tube, which suggests to me that he was in such a position that they were
unable to provide him with oxygen through a face mask. I've no doubt medics
would have amputated his foot if that had been possible. That they didn't
suggests this really was a freak set of circumstances.

It's desperately sad as he was only 28 & trying to clear a drain for his
grandfather. I also feel for the professionals who were on site for so long
& will be thoroughly depressed that their skills & best efforts were
insufficient to save him.

--
Joe Lee

"Derek Geldard" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:54:40 +0100, Andy Burns
wrote:

On 25/06/2007 21:33, Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

Ignore this, post I put a new one in.

For the sake of a missing "i"? You could cancel the original message if
you though people cared, or that most people hadn't killfile'd you.

What's the apostrophy for ?


It's generally used to denote that someone will come along shortly & spell
the word "apostrophe" incorrectly

--
Joe Lee








DG