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GordonG Nov 2020 1:38pm, 28 Nov 2020 8,393 posts	Quote Pin GordonG The seemingly increasing number of people who cannot distinguish between a written statement and a question (and who then add a question mark to a statement e.g. "people who add a question mark to a statement?")
Markymarkmark Nov 2020 8:33pm, 28 Nov 2020 13,423 posts	Quote Pin Markymarkmark Really, GordonG.
ChrisHB Nov 2020 11:55am, 29 Nov 2020 20,160 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB A recipe whose USP is that it takes 40 minutes and begins with heating the oven (say 15 minutes), preparing some of the food (say that fits into the same 15 minutes) and then putting in the oven for 45 minutes.
Grumpypants Dec 2020 5:18pm, 3 Dec 2020 62 posts	Quote Pin Grumpypants 'Amount' of people. You have an amount of sand, or money. People are individuals and countable. I find it dehumanising to refer to a group of people as you would talk about a lump of Cheddar. so, it's 'number' of people, please.
ThorntonRunner Dec 2020 6:17pm, 3 Dec 2020 4,279 posts	Quote Pin ThorntonRunner I agree with you Grumpypants, but we're losing the battle. It's the same with less and fewer
ThorntonRunner Dec 2020 6:18pm, 3 Dec 2020 4,280 posts	Quote Pin ThorntonRunner [Less for a continuum, fewer for a accountable collection]
ThorntonRunner Dec 2020 6:19pm, 3 Dec 2020 4,281 posts	Quote Pin ThorntonRunner Countable not accountable (autocorrect)
XB-alidocious Dec 2020 10:07pm, 3 Dec 2020 10,827 posts	Quote Pin XB-alidocious Perfume adverts. Pretentious tosh.
Surrey Phil Dec 2020 10:10pm, 3 Dec 2020 5,322 posts	Quote Pin Surrey Phil People who can't differentiate between lose and loose. Re-read your sentence before sending it. In a similar way, I get fed up by my minutes getting autocorrected from actions to auctions.
The G-oone-rinch Dec 2020 10:31pm, 3 Dec 2020 19,048 posts	Quote Pin The G-oone-rinch Definitely perfume/aftershave adverts. Utterly pretentious and also entirely useless. How does some random chiselled bloke prancing about in a car, then on a boat, then in a bedroom with a model tell anybody what something smells like?!