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Grammar pedants - help please.

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Diogenes
Diogenes
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10:18am, 26 Sep 2007
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Intreagued?
Snoo
Snoo
Sep 2007
10:24am, 26 Sep 2007
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That would be 'intrigued'.

However, we all knew what it meant... innit?
Huge
Huge
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11:39am, 26 Sep 2007
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Hmm. Orthography, is it all it's cracked up to be?
Sep 2007
11:44am, 26 Sep 2007
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Out Snoozi !

Report to Spelling pedants thread, without delay ;-)
Snoo
Snoo
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11:45am, 26 Sep 2007
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Boing it EB, I cannit find it man (in my bestest Geordie accent)
DeeGee
DeeGee
Oct 2007
12:21am, 10 Oct 2007
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Revisiting this thread, I'm intrigued by Fat Dave's comment that "Whilst" should be buried at sea. There are too few remaining examples of the word, correctly formed, in English. Although it is often misused, I vote to retain "Whilst" for those who know how to use it.
Dvorak
Dvorak
Oct 2007
12:31am, 10 Oct 2007
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Should that be "for whosoever knows how to use it"? :-)
DeeGee
DeeGee
Oct 2007
12:32am, 10 Oct 2007
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Could be. However, shouldn't "for" be followed by the dative?
DeeGee
DeeGee
Oct 2007
12:34am, 10 Oct 2007
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Or is that only after "To"?
DeeGee
DeeGee
Oct 2007
12:37am, 10 Oct 2007
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DeeGee
Blast, I'm confused, myself, by the intricacies of my mother tongue.

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