Jim Clark certainly competed in some motor rallies and demonstrated he was a very capable rally driver but I was actually just making the point that rallies also have a clerk of the course.
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antipodean
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Not just motor racing, but just about any form of sport has a clerk of the event that is responsible for ensuring the rules are followed. I beleive horse racing also has a clerk of the course, but events like sailing have a commodore who does the same job.
Luke
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It is easy to get free online access through a membership of most public libraries. That includes Nottingham City public libraries, (but possibly not Inspire Nottinghamshire libraries).
Oxford English Dictionary | Nottingham City Libraries
Read more about the Oxford English Dictionary, and how you can access this resource through Nottingham City Libraries.
www.nottinghamcitylibraries.co.uk
EEPhil
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The library system here is complicated, but a library card for Inspire also works in the City and books can be borrowed from any library within the county. The only material difference I can see is that printing is easier, and cheaper, in the City.
I haven't got past accessing newspapers online. I'll investigate the dictionary - if it doesn't work with Inspire I should be able to log in to the City.
Edit: Wrong on both counts. I cannot get access using the City. Inspire - card recognised, but sent back to login again and again. My patience is exhausted and I'm not wasting any more time trying to gain access.
Edit2: I did waste more time and tried again and found I was logged in. Confused? You bet I am. What a temperamental system! Put in "lexicographic" (see https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/assume-v-presume.1453/post-179553) and it goes back to login. Try another word and a definition is displayed.
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Black Hole
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How did this slip past?!
EEPhil
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Easy mistake to miss. I read through it once and didn't spot it. Then, because I knew you wouldn't post it without a reason, I read it again. Obviously the headline writer is as stupid as me and not doing their job properly. "outift" - flagged as an error as I type it, with a suggested correction. How did the Daily Mail miss it? Too busy with "3 Pads Raynor" and migrant stories perhaps.
More likely the incessant attention whoring of the Beckhams and Katie Price, usually multiple articles a day based on any random one of them, their neighbour, their neighbours dog or someone that once sat next to them on a bus and guaranteed to contain at least 50% of the same pictures and text they used in the previous 100 articles all of which followed by the most toxic posts imaginable showing exactly how much contempt the general public has for all of them.
Black Hole
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Black Hole
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Correcting the zero to a lower case o resolves the problem. What's your second?
The Mail of course.
I mean, it's a simple typo I've done myself – typing 0 instead of O and not noticing – but where was the auto spell/grammar checker? Perhaps the answer is that it sounded alarm bells, but when the squiggle got reviewed nobody realised what the error was and clicked "ignore" (or worse still "add to dictionary").
EEPhil
Number 28
Whether it should be Post Offices or post offices. I would have thought PO. Therefore p and 0 both wrong, maybe.
antipodean
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You expect them to use one of those ???
The number of times they have repeated words, grammatical errors or just plain spelling errors I don't think anybody does a second pass or review of anything typed in that (dis)organisation
Black Hole
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Sure – otherwise I would expect far more errors daily.
The latter, and therefore not an additional error. Post Office is the organisation, post offices are the premises they operate from.
I expect there concentration was elsewhere more than likely planning the next dozen riveting Katie Price And Beckham family exclusives filled with the exact same dross that was in the last dozen yesterday and the day before that and every other day before then.
Black Hole
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Sara Davies (crafting entrepreneur / dragon) on Morning Live: called it a "staple gun". It was a stapler, not a staple gun.
EEPhil
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Didn't see the item in question. Was it something that clips (usually) paper together and bends the ends of the staples, or was it a device that drives the staple through (for example) fabric into wood without bending? I get the feeling it was the latter and wasn't powered. It's debatable, in my mind at least, whether it should be called a staple gun. I probably would, but what do I know?
Black Hole
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Nope, the former. It was a stapler. The latter would be a staple gun.
EEPhil
Number 28
I was thinking that you might have seen a staple device that is unpowered but only ejects straight staples*. I had one but can't find the damned thing. I bought it since I moved, so it wasn't lost in the move. Last seen in a spare room (ie. full of junk). If I buy a new one what are the chances the old one will turn up?
* Having checked on Hobbycraft it is a staple gun!
Black Hole
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I have acquired several if you're stuck!