At near 'bout the top of my list: really unique, very unique, etc. "Unique" is
an absolute, and something either is unlike anything else in the whole wide
world, or it ain't, and if it ain't, then it ain't unique.
Don't start me up. I've got lots of these. I just read a headline in a
supposedly respected publication the other day about the first person to
qualify as a candidate in an election being "the first one out of the shoot."
That got them a nasty e-mail.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Me too. I would like to say that is one of my "only" pet hates - but it
> isn't, that was an example of another.
>
> "Only" means "sole", "single" it does not mean "few". Grr.
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Geilfuss Charles
> Sent: 07 September 2006 16:29
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] The Do's and Don'ts of apostrophe placement
>
>
> I'm with you on this one Winsor; I hear it all the time. Let's not even get
> started on the use of "hopefully".
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Winsor Crosby
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:53 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] The Do's and Don'ts of apostrophe placement
>
>
> On the off chance that I will save one person from mortal embarrassment,
> "Less" is not a substitute for "fewer", except apparently in all the mass
> media in the US which have confused 6th grade level usage with 6th grade
> usage. Less is used for amorphous stuff like soup in my bowl, sauce on the
> dessert or rice in the
> bowl. "Fewer" is used for discrete things like cars on the freeway,
> people who like eggplant, eggs in the omelette, grains of rice in a cup of
> brown rice.
>
> Sorry. Sometimes I can't stand it.
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
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