Re: English usage - Don Rhodes
Subject: Re: English usage
From: Don Rhodes
Date: May 10, 2000

Thanks  I agree.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Melba J Clark" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: English usage


 You wrote:
> <<<<>>>>>
> It seems to me that each list has its own problems.  Some are large and
some
> are small.
>
> We just have to work through and/or around them to get to the real purpose
> of the lists.  That is to help each other-- and if correction is needed,
> then sometimes that is the way we help, as a teacher helps the students.
>
> The important thing to remember is that since we want to help each other
> with our FAMILY research, then we must consider ourselves, family, and act
> accordingly.
> Melba
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ken robinson 
> To: [email protected] 
> Date: Friday, May 05, 2000 12:09 PM
> Subject: English usage
>
>
> >Janet has it right.  People need to be less testy, aggrieved, and
> defensive.  No one intends to misspell or misspeak or miswrrite.  That's
why
> they're called accidents.
> >
> >Now, if we can all agree that "cemetery" no A,  "grammar" has no E, and
> just as "hers" and "his" have no apostrophe,  "its" has no apostrophe if
> it's used as a possessive pronoun, as the wagon train had "its" own
> problems.
> >
> >Ken Robinson           [email protected]
> >
> >
>
>



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