Since we are on the topic of language use ... "consistant" doesn't appear in the dictionary.
>"Comprising" being mistaken for "composing" and used in the in a similar way.
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>"The team comprises of eleven men" rather than "The team is composed of eleven men" or "The team comprises eleven men"
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>I've even heard the infallible and omniscient Anne (Weakest Link) Robinson use it thus.
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>THIS IS MY PET HATE:
>The use of apostrophes for plurals and, now I'm seeing more and more, third person singular verbs.
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>"Tea's and coffees served all day" (and note it's not consistant. Why should "Tea" have it but not "coffee"?)
>"he like's what he sees" (again - inconsistant)
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>Terry
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
