Like the "separate" word and "dependent", I wasn't sure, and plumped for one of them. That's the trouble with a non-phonetic language. Thank you for pointing that out. Now I'll just go and fall on my sword :-)


>Since we are on the topic of language use ... "consistant" doesn't appear in the dictionary.
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>>"Comprising" being mistaken for "composing" and used in the in a similar way.
>>e.g.
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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.
>>e.g.
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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