On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 2:04:17 PM UTC-7, sf wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:53:37 -0500, Nancy Young
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> > On 12/3/2013 2:14 PM, gtr wrote:
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> > > On 2013-12-03 16:56:53 +0000, Nancy Young said:
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> > >> On 12/3/2013 10:47 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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> > >>> Dave Smith > wrote:
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> > >>>> http://m.staples.ca/sbdca/en_CA/cre/...s/grammarquiz/
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> > >>> That was a very easy quiz. Nevertheless, I got one wrong (whom).
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> > >> Did that make you a grammar guru like me? Heh. That
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> > >> was easy to ace.
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> > > It turns out there are vastly more grammar gurus than I would have guessed.
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> > I'd be surprised if most people here didn't nail that quiz.
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> Didn't bother looking at it, mainly because I don't claim to be a good
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> speller or a grammar guru but bear/bare as in "B____ with me" gets me
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> every time. Bear is an animal and bare is naked. Neither one makes
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> sense in that context. We should have a third spelling to use.
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> What grates on my last nerve when it is misused? fewer/less.
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Don't you remember in Church where they mentioned "The cross-eyed-bear"...or was that "bare"? Sometimes hard to select the right one.

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