Who Decided To Drop Capital Letters?

Coppit | 23:26 Wed 18th Nov 2015 | Arts & Literature

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The PC version of the East End of London is east end and it's not only people who live there who resent that. To me it will always be North London, an area as opposed to north of London.
The Home Office. e.g., has been downgraded to home office and so on.

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allen

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I like the infer/imply example. A slightly different tale. A young person in my employ had said something even more daft than usual. I admonished him, and he asked "Are you inferring that I'm an idiot?" "Yes," I replied. "Precisely." How I wish the joke hadn't been lost on him...

09:32 Thu 10th Dec 2015

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Zacs-Master

allen, if a lack of precision affects the meaning of the text then I agree. If the lack of precision is just a different way of spelling a word of the dropping of a capital (or two) then it's an irrelevance and simply allows the Status Quo pedants to try and appear elitist.

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Hypognosis

Today, we mourn the passing of our dear friend, "more than", who is survived by his two, typographically inexplicable, sons "more then" and "more that".

Amon.

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