----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Rhodes" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: English usage


 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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