>>>>>>>>>My two bugbears about BBC Radio 4 are:
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>>>>>>>>>Someone is asked a yes/no question and they reply with the middle-class word for "yes" - "Absolutely"
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>>>>>>>>>A cognisciento is asked to join in the discussion and begins his spiel with "I mean ...". He hasn't even said anything yet to qualify with an explanation!
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>>>>>>>>Even worse. This morning on Radio 4 they talked about Picasso having painted Guernica after the bombing of the town in Spain by German fighters. Do they teach nothing to these people. Fighters do not bomb. Bombers bomb
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>>>>>>>Many fighters were equipped with a single bomb during WWII. in WWI, the pilots dropped 'bombs' which were a form of hand grenade
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>>>>>>Are you and Viv ganging up on me ? -)
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>>>>>no, I just figured it was my turn to be the pedant today :)
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>>>>Big shoes to fill!
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>>>Are they weferwing to me, Centuwion?
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>>I'm sure it had nothing at all to do with you. (Double, triple, and quadruple checking that sentence for grammatical purity before pressing Send....)
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>Ooh, you can be such a bitch sometimes! BTW, I wear only size 10 shoes.
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>BTW2 it's hard to see how you could have quadruple-checked without first having already triple-, without first having already double-, so most of your sentence was redundant.
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>That's like saying a soldier was killed in Iraq today, bringing the total of dead to 1,005, it having previously been 1,004.

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