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Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance

Subject: Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance
From: Steve Read <steve -at- readonly -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:03:02 -0600


dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com wrote:


Steve Read wrote:

To mention just one of the grammatical errors in the article, the title should've been "Microsoft Pays Dearly..."

UK English again, mate.


Really? In the UK, you use adjectives like "dear" to modify verbs?


OED says "adv 1. At a high price; at great cost."


My British wife is surprised to hear that, too.

I'm checking it out with a couple of my more pedantic English friends.

Steve (10 years in the UK and can't spell anything any more) Read

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Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance: From: oudeis
Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance: From: dmbrown
Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance: From: Steve Read
Re: Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance: From: dmbrown

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