Defending!!!!

And you my friend need an English dictionary as opposed to an American one. It’s ‘centre’ in this country.

Don’t mention it. It’s all part of the service. We’ll start on capital letters and punctuation next week. ;)

And you my friend need an English dictionary as opposed to an American one. It’s ‘centre’ in this country.[/quote]

standish if we signed jay demerit or joze altidore could we call them center half and center foward respectively,

i hate to be pernickety but both spellings are in the OED

sorry to be pernickety again john, i don’t subscribe to the online OED, i’m afraid i only have the hard bound version, so i had to refer to this lesser upstart
Dictionary.Com

pernickety or persnickety (pəˈnɪkɪtɪ) — adj
1. excessively precise and attentive to detail; fussy
2. (of a task) requiring close attention; exacting
[C19: originally Scottish, of unknown origin]
persnickety or persnickety

I have explained this once before on here, but will gladly do so again, I happened to be around when the use of computers by all was becoming the norm, before then it was just the boffins, the company i was working for at the time sent me on a training course on how to use this new fangled email stuff – at none other than IBM(and they knew a thing or two about computers).
Despite most people on the course messing about and treating it as a week long pee up on expenses and to a man all agreeing that this emailing crap would never catch on when people had telephones they could just pick up, i happened to learn a few things and a bad habit as well, that leads to this excuse.

one of the things taught to us during that week was when sending emails, exact correct spelling, punctuation, sentence forming & capitalisation was a luxury in the high speed world of industry, and as long as the information required was transmitted clearly and quickly this was ok, any formal letters or script could be sent as hard copy – or forwarded to secretarial staff who type or print it as needed.(there was no MS Word or attachments, or windows everything ran in DOS)

when i did start to use the new systems regularly this is how everyone i dealt with wrote emails and it is something i still do, i always can identify someone who learned this way 20 or so years ago.

so i apologise for not writing my posts in a correct manor, i am a little long in the tooth to change now.

oh john i won’t mark YOUR little error, suffice to say though it was noticed.

Arthur, a surprisingly funny film if you like Russell Brand.

I beg to differ Mr Arkwright.

It’s always been acceptable to use ‘And’ at the start of a sentence when used in the right context.

I quote Professor Jack Lynch:

‘Contrary to what your high school English teacher told you, there’s no reason not to begin a sentence with but or and; in fact, these words often make a sentence more forceful and graceful. They are almost always better than beginning with however or additionally. Beginning with but or and does make your writing less formal; — but worse things could happen to most writing than becoming less formal.’

Both spellings are in the OED LMB, but it does state ‘US Center’.

I suppose we could use ‘center’ when referring to the playing positions of American players, but before you know it we’ll be talking of game schedules, first team rosters and the color of their uniforms.

dont some talk some total crap on here