Re: OT: Grammar Police (was [CR]Cirque du Cyclisme update!)

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From: "Tony Zanussi" <merckxslx@hotmail.com>
To: steve@fridayscomputer.com, GandJFahey@aol.com
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: OT: Grammar Police (was [CR]Cirque du Cyclisme update!)
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:53:36 -0500


irregardless......what does this have to do with bikes?

Tony Zanussi

----Original Message Follows---- From: Steve Freides <steve@fridayscomputer.com> To: GandJFahey@aol.com CC: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: OT: Grammar Police (was [CR]Cirque du Cyclisme update!) Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 08:41:41 -0500

GandJFahey@aol.com wrote, in part:

> There's only 48 rooms ...

Forgive the off-topic post from the Grammar Police, but if you undo the contraction "there's" you get "there is", which becomes, "There _is_ only 48 rooms" which ought to be "There _are_ only 48 rooms" which means you ought to say, "There're only 48 rooms." I hear this all the time, even in radio advertisements, and it drives me crazy.

Steve "corrections are welcomed" Freides