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 Post subject: Time-traveller
PostPosted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:44 pm 
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Written today for a breakout on tomorrow's features page:
<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr> Last month (June), yet another of Downes customers won $1.3 million in the Saturday Lotto draw. <hr></blockquote>
I'm not sure what bothers me the most:
That the reporter doesn't know what month it is... the use of "yet another"... or the missing apostrophe.


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 Post subject: Re: Time-traveller
PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:43 am 
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You oughta save that sentence for what we in the States would call a copy desk test.


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