Pedants corner.....

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  1. Tek

    Tekkytyke Well-Known Member

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    ...can anyone else see anything wrong with this headline?....

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55551314

    IMO the word 'earn' is incorrect. Again IMHO I don't care how influential a CEO, no one "earns" that much money.

    I have no issue against someone who has risked all, worked 'all hours God sends' and made many personal sacrifices whilst creating and growing a big business from scratch and providing employment for others from having a luxury lifestyle.

    Nevertheless, there are far too many who joined the 'money-go round.'. where.... ahem... 'independent'...peer renumeration review boards 'scratch each others backs' and create a vastly over-inflated...'going rate' (often in many cases enraging powerless shareholders) whichalso ends up being applied to the Public sector (using the argument that to recruit the best you have to compete with the private sector). The result is that it is taxpayers who fund huge remuneration packages to senior management non profit organisations like the NHS. Payment based on Performance also seems to be sadly lacking on occasions with failure often rewarded (although that is, at last, gradually being addressed) .

    Incentivising the entrepreneurial spirit is important but the self-entitlement that seem so exist within the upper echelons of business and commerce hardly lends itself to 'self restraint'. How many luxury yachts, or offshore accounts does one man need anyway ?

    I suppose we could ask Casual Tyke as with his myriad of qualifications he must surely be one of those mega rich CEOs;)
     
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  2. Loko the Tyke

    Loko the Tyke Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    I’m genuinely interested. Have you ever started a thread about football?
     
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    Now that Matty James has gone, surely it's time to bring Brad Potts back?
     
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    Pedant's corner: the thread title should read: 'Pedant's corner'.
     
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    Correct, however, I can tolerate a missing apostrophe far more than seeing one where it shouldn't be. Drive's me up the wall....o_O
     
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    Or Pedants' if he was using the plural?
     
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    Isn't the latter called a grocer's apostrophe? Potatoe's - 37p/kg.

    (In the Lynne Truss book, she even gave an example of someone living in Potters Bar, who wrote 'Potters Bar', as 'Potter's Bar'.)
     
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    Of course if the statement refers to the plural the apostrophe should come after the 's' ?
     
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    Sorry Helen, you beat me to it! :)
     
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    True!

    But I derived it from Private Eye's (not "Eyes" or "Eyes'" :p) Pseud's Corner, which takes the singular.
     
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    Never mind about that, when are we signing Brad Pott's?
     
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    Surely Brad's Potts?
     
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    Back to school you go, when did we ever spell pots with a double t!!!???
     
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    Where do we stand on the Sainsbury's question?
     
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    imagine if aforementioned footballer opened a ceramics store, Brad’s Pots.
     
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    2 metre's apart?
     
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    I think on the letters page they go with "Pedantry Corner", which nicely sidesteps the issue!
     
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    The one that does me is where a business have clearly gone to great lengths, and expense, to have a lovely sign outside their shop or cafe, but had an apostrophe catastrophe. The number of cafes offering COFFEE'S is amazing.
     
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    Need to go over to the US election thread for that one. Someone on there is in the top 0.1% of qualified people in the world, I'm sure they'll know!!
     
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    Oh dear! This thread is cheering me up though.
     
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