FCS wrote:
> On Jul 16, 4:43 pm, Blue Sow <janet.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Sir Francesco Reffo wrote:
>>> Good morning,
>>> some question about the word Barbershop and other:
>>> 1_ Which is the right spelling: barbershop or barber'shop?
>> Neither.
>> Barber-shop is the usual spelling.
>
> It might help if you checked a source. The
> Concise OED offers forth:
>
It might help if you did.
My response was taken from the OED, not a smaller OED.
You can access the OED on line, including the completed sections of
version 3,
bearing in mind it is quite expensive to buy. The two-volume Shorter OED
is
much more reasonably priced.
> I suspect this is a troll (which I still maintain
> I am not, I am merely using a pseudonym I adopted
> a number of years ago to try to prevent cyberstalking)
Would you care to describe what 'cyberstalking' means to you?
> All these factoids about myself are available in
> the public domain.
Factoids? Too much Radio 2 in the afternoon?
>> If you wished to add an apostrophe, you would need an additional 's' as
in
>> barber's shop.
>
> If we are talking about the shop itself I agree.
>
> If we are talking about the, generally unaccompanied
> singing style, I stick with the OED.
Again, my reply was taken from the OED.
> Well, yes, at risk of being labelled a classic
> Freudian neurotic there's the obvious one from
> the days the Great British nobility used to slip
> off down to Brighton on the Railways for weekend
> of sordid fun with a mistress or harlot.
>
> That would be: "something for the weekend, sir?"
And you complain that I cast aspersions on your mental health.
LOL!
> Odd how this post shows up a fortnight or so
> after the smoking-in-public-places ban kicked
> in here, which THE TIMES used a photo' of a
> trio of pole dancers stood scantily clad in
> improbable heels-forced poses in a venue doorway
> smoking cigarettes to illustrate...a week or so
> after it came into force.
How is this post related to your smoking ban or 'glamour' photography?
You are a bit late there with a smoking ban - nice to see you catching up.
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Blue Sow
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