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"Bachelorette" IS a word, fix it, please. :-)

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Sondra - 24 Mar 2006 15:19 GMT
"Bachelorette" IS a word, fix it, please. :-)
Greg - 24 Mar 2006 15:26 GMT
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Tony Jollans - 24 Mar 2006 18:53 GMT
What sort of fix would you like? Perhaps 50 lashes for it's use?

Seriously, I think it's probably a new word (it is not in my 1998 edition
dictionary) and, like all new words, will, eventually, if used enough, find
its way into most dictionaries including Word's.

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Tony

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Jean-Guy Marcil - 24 Mar 2006 20:15 GMT
Tony Jollans was telling us:
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> What sort of fix would you like? Perhaps 50 lashes for it's use?

How many lashes for using a contracted verb instead of a possessive
adjective? ;-p

(This is a pet peeve of mine... I cringe every time I see it, and I see it
all the time! Strangely enough, it seems that it is mostly "native speakers"
of English make that typo/slip... Even saw on TV the other day (an American
channel, can't remember which one) something like this: "If you want you're
time well spent on your vacation, then.... " N ot bad, they got one out of
two!)

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Tony Jollans - 24 Mar 2006 20:46 GMT
Aaaarrrgghhh!! Sorry!

I don't normally do that - I was going to post something else and thought
better of it - and ended up a grammatical horror :-)

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Tony

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