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Control Panel
Discworld



1157 Posts
Posted - 08/11/2007 :  16:13:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I was thinking that the monthly paper Rocks had become a bit flat - and see that it's now published by the Argus!

Why did they sell out to the Argus?
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 13/11/2007 :  09:32:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Argus here writes "effected" when it means "affected".

An accident affects others' journeys. It does not bring them about, which is the meaning of effect.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1828358.0.two_car_crashes_on_same_stretch_of_road.php
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 16/11/2007 :  14:17:07  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Argus has now started spelling Moulescoomb as Moulescombe... the cat could do better.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1839399.0.cats_amazing_eight_week_road_trip_back_home.php
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea



United Kingdom
5229 Posts
Posted - 17/11/2007 :  12:50:45  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Recycling newspapers ... yes but recycling newspapers???? Yawn of the dead & Opening wide almost cost man his life
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
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Control Panel
Discworld



1157 Posts
Posted - 23/11/2007 :  10:59:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Argus is trying to confuse baguette-eaters by making Friday the 22nd. It sounds like a racket.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/competitions/foodonfridayfeature/
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 04/12/2007 :  08:54:32  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Argus here wrongly spells both "friends" and "launderette".

This Naomi Loomis is perhaps the worst speller on the Argus. Has she ever held a dictionary?

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1877579.0.injured_pensioner_rescued_after_six_days_at_bottom_of_stairs.php
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Ian
Alagaësía



67 Posts
Posted - 04/12/2007 :  09:57:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum

The Argus here wrongly spells both "friends" and "launderette".

This Naomi Loomis is perhaps the worst speller on the Argus. Has she ever held a dictionary?

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1877579.0.injured_pensioner_rescued_after_six_days_at_bottom_of_stairs.php
"Laundrette" isn't necessarily wrong - it's an alternative spelling. I think the more common spelling used to be "launderette", but "laundrette" seems to be used more and more these days. Also, there's the British film "My Beautiful Laundrette".
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 06/12/2007 :  14:44:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Argus has here created a new building supplies firm of Travis Perking - and g is far from s on the keyboard.

Hanif Kureishi's mis-spelling of "launderette" has made others do the same...

http://www.theargus.co.uk/display.var.1886342.0.shoreham_harbour_to_be_eco_town_plan.php
Edited by - Infinite Poppadum on 06/12/2007 14:45:27
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Daveb
Discworld



1864 Posts
Posted - 06/12/2007 :  20:20:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It will all come out in the wash!
We're all doomed!
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 17/12/2007 :  16:23:10  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Argus here quotes a council officer as assuring a resident that "the problem would be repeated".

Quite likely, but probably NOT what he said...

The Argus has also created a new Sussex Square off East Street (burnt restaurant story).

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/generalnews/display.var.1910513.0.pensioner_told_by_refuse_collectors_to_lift_her_own_bin.php
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 20/12/2007 :  13:37:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Not very brightly, the Argus is now going in for "greengrocer's apostrophe".

In this piece about some outrage over garish Christmas decorations it has "brighten's"

http://www.theargus.co.uk/display.var.1919325.0.christmas_lights_row_in_hohohove.php
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 24/12/2007 :  11:15:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
"After more than a month in a specialist baby ward, unable to be held by their parents, the twins' condition stabilised and they left hospital on February 16."

A very bad Argus sentence there. It makes it sound as if the ward cannot be held by the parents, and anyway the subject of the sentence is the "condition" and that cannot be held either. A sub-editor should have recast the sentence.


http://www.theargus.co.uk/display.var.1925313.0.sugar_bag_babies_are_21_on_xmas_day.php
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 26/12/2007 :  17:14:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
"It makes a mockery of the whole ides of consultation if they are saying that these 4,000 people, who have bothered to sing up to a petition setting out particular reasons why their post office should not close, will not be counted."

That is how David Lepper is quoted in the Argus about post office petitions being counted as one objection.

This could be a whole new branch of objection - choral fashion. How much more interesting if protestors got together to sing their views in the form of a Bach cantata. Or a chorus of kicking legs to "we won't take it lying down!"

And the "ides of consultation"! In which month are these?

Has the Argus been treating its sub-editors to a bonus bottle of cooking sherry this Chrismas?

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/generalnews/display.var.1927400.0.post_office_petitions_could_be_ignored_by_bosses.php
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Control Panel
Discworld



1157 Posts
Posted - 01/01/2008 :  13:02:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Argus reporters have sex on the mind even when writing about a faulty door.

At the bottom, or should I say foot, of this article, the word "baring" is used instead of "bearing".

Poor writing loses papers readers - they feel insulted.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/generalnews/display.var.1935619.0.staff_left_in_cold_after_bosses_axe_bonuses.php
Edited by - Control Panel on 01/01/2008 13:03:55
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 02/01/2008 :  15:39:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
A new year, and standards fall further at the Argus, which now cannot spell Alsatian...

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/generalnews/display.var.1937642.0.dog_rescued_after_falling_down_a_cliff_in_newhaven.php
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  18:27:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Argus here spells solicitor wrongly.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/generalnews/display.var.1956068.0.brighton_bookmaker_refuses_to_pay_out_on_bet.php#comments
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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
6275 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  18:46:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yes
No One Cares
though.

Life In The City.
Edited by - long time no see on 13/01/2008 18:47:29
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea



United Kingdom
5229 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  19:15:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Maybe you don't ... others do.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
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Daveb
Discworld



1864 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  19:22:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It would be incorrect to suppose that I give a monkeys about this. The Argus spelling is not the dog's b*****ks but to worry about it soooooo much is completely batty!
We're all doomed!
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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
6275 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  20:07:22  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Bang On Right
Dave.
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Control Panel
Discworld



1157 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  20:38:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If the Argus cannot manage the simple matter of spelling, how can it cope with such complicated matters as the news produces every day?

What sort of garage would it be that did not tighten all the wheelnuts before the customer took the car away?
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea



United Kingdom
5229 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  20:47:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I wouldn't fret Control Panel ... LTNS is under the mistaken impression that his voice carries some weight around here.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
6275 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  20:49:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Miriam Binder

I wouldn't fret Control Panel ... LTNS is under the mistaken impression that his voice carries some weight around here.




You are Very Wrong
On this Forum it Does not at all
carry any weight.
FACT.


So you are Mistaken.
Not me.
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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
6275 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  20:52:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Control Panel

If the Argus cannot manage the simple matter of spelling, how can it cope with such complicated matters as the news produces every day?
What sort of garage would it be that did not tighten all the wheelnuts before the customer took the car away?



You will Find it Does it Most well
They Even Now have Reporters on VT
that many view on their site.


Mind You the Free Metro is far better.
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Control Panel
Discworld



1157 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  21:08:08  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I do not see what a video has to do with spelling. Though, how would you like it if they pronounced words wrongly?

Anyway, it's much quicker to read the Argus than to sit through a video which presents even less.
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  21:12:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Can we expect an interview in which Jon Snow says to somebody, "that's bang on right"?
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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
6275 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  21:50:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum

Can we expect an interview in which Jon Snow says to somebody, "that's bang on right"?



He does not need to be that Direct.
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld



1159 Posts
Posted - 13/01/2008 :  23:54:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski!
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 19/01/2008 :  22:44:50  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The Argus here uses "have" - near the end - when "scheme" is subject of the sentence...

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/generalnews/display.var.1976516.0.anger_at_second_wind_turbine_bid_on_the_south_downs.php
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld



1214 Posts
Posted - 23/01/2008 :  12:37:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Mrs Poppadum has just pointed out that the Argus here writes of "less delays" when it should be "fewer delays".

"Less delay", however, is correct usage.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1986659.mostviewed.road_misery_as_work_on_brighton_bridge_begins.php
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