Pedants' Paradise

[vinteuil]

No more than the difference between 'ομοιουσιος and 'ομοουσιος, wouldn't you say?

... yes - and look at the centuries of problems that caused! .

[Segilla]

Around 1970, when working for an insurance company a man submitted a 4 page motor claim form with every word ending in the letter s, preceded by an apostrophe - including his own surname.

I was in the RAF in 1952, and was given injections against yellow fever etc before going abroad. Later, when asked at which hospital they had been done I replied, "St. Pancras". The form then given to me showed St. Pancreas.

[Segilla]

Let's all go down the Strand

In London the street is Strand, the Bakerloo station is Strand and so on. But it is commonly known as the Strand. Stanley Gibbons, one of the best known shops there, on their website show:-

'Based opposite the Savoy on the Strand' ... .

and later:-

'With the move of our prestigious 142 year old numismatic business, AH Baldwin & Sons, to 399 Strand ....'

However, it's difficult to make do without the definite article.

[Don Petter]

Around 1970, when working for an insurance company a man submitted a 4 page motor claim form with every word ending in the letter s, preceded by an apostrophe - including his own surname.

If the claim was to his own company perhaps it was just over-possessivenes.

[Serial_Apologist]

Around 1970, when working for an insurance company a man submitted a 4 page motor claim form with every word ending in the letter s, preceded by an apostrophe - including his own surname.

I was in the RAF in 1952, and was given injections against yellow fever etc before going abroad. Later, when asked at which hospital they had been done I replied, "St. Pancras". The form then given to me showed St. Pancreas.

I once erroneously wrote "St Pancreas" into a book. One of the reviewers wrote, "St Pancras was not the patron saint of glands"!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I once erroneously wrote "St Pancreas" into a book. One of the reviewers wrote, "St Pancras was not the patron saint of glands"!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You mean, it isn't "St Pancreas"??!!

[Beef Oven!]

This is bothering me. Thinking of painting. Should the plural of 'still life', be still lifes or still lives?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"Still lifes" (as each painting is of one still life).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

He said confidently - apparently either option is nowadays acceptable:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/still%20life

... education standards have gone right down the drain since my day!

[Beef Oven!]

"Still lifes" (as each painting is of one still life).

That was my thinking, but today I saw it written as 'still lives'. It didn't seem right. But my spell check won't let me have 'lifes'. I have to override it. It's so stressful, all this.

[StephenO]

In London the street is Strand, the Bakerloo station is Strand and so on. But it is commonly known as the Strand. Stanley Gibbons, one of the best known shops there, on their website show:-

'Based opposite the Savoy on the Strand' ... .

and later:-

'With the move of our prestigious 142 year old numismatic business, AH Baldwin & Sons, to 399 Strand ....'

However, it's difficult to make do without the definite article.

If it's good enough for AH Baldwin & Sons, it's good enough for me.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

In London ... the Bakerloo station is Strand and so on.

That's going back a bit! Actually I recall that the Bakerloo station was Trafalgar Square.

[Bryn]

That's going back a bit! Actually I recall that the Bakerloo station was Trafalgar Square.

[vinteuil]

That's going back a bit! Actually I recall that the Bakerloo station was Trafalgar Square.

... indeed it was : happy memories

The history of the names for the various underground stations making up the present-day Charing Cross is a bit of a tangle - wiki sets it out quite helpfully -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross_tube_station