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• 1. At 5:07pm on 21 May 2008, Fifi wrote:

  Good to see Jack and Vera. How we've missed them!

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• 2. At 5:53pm on 21 May 2008, jonnie wrote:

  Nigels mix was strange! -- I thought we'd lost him at one stage.

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• 3. At 5:53pm on 21 May 2008, DI_Wyman wrote:

  Several really good bookshops in Bath....Mr B's and Whitemans to name but three!

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• 4. At 5:54pm on 21 May 2008, Forager69 wrote:

  Why did Nigel Wrench take such a negative approach to the eclectic aspect of the Festival? It suggests an artistic conservatism that clearly isn't shared by the organisers and certainly not by me.

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• 5. At 5:56pm on 21 May 2008, DI_Wyman wrote:

  ....and in Oldfield Park the ever giod humoured and genial Irishman, Harry Wainwright has one as well, really worth a visit!
  
  
  
  'arry that's a pony wot u owe me son.

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• 6. At 6:00pm on 21 May 2008, SYNCRETIC wrote:

  re introducing phonetic spellings:
  
  Im a member of a literacy disability group. unadjusted for literacy disability is the biggest cause of:
  
  education failure,
  social inequity
  deprivation,
  crime and delinquency,
  skills gaps,
  mass imigration.
  
  I think the BBC excludes the literacy disabled community both from the BBC media staff and from the BBC media interviews about access to:
  
  education
  work
  justice
  the media
  faith
  politics
  
  ......of course phonetic spellings would help to reduce the manner in which the majority of the UKs people are shibolethed by the ruling classess and the media and the academy.
  
  George Bernard Shaw - who was possibly the greatest British man of letters of the C20th advocated phonetic spellings for just this reason. Wake up
  

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• 7. At 7:41pm on 21 May 2008, U10783173 wrote:

  SYNCRETIC (6) - George Bernard Shaw - a man of letters certainly. But he was Irish.

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• 8. At 7:59pm on 21 May 2008, Anne P. wrote:

  TIH - from one Celt to another, have you never noticed that if a Celt does something good they are British, but otherwise they are Scots/Irish/Welsh, Cornish even.....:-)
  

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• 9. At 8:12pm on 21 May 2008, Gillianian wrote:

  The item about spelling reminded me of the short-lived ita system of teaching children to read and write.(At least it was short-lived in the primary school I attended, which was one of the first to use it)
  The poor children had to learn one set of rules, then a couple of years later unlearn those rules and replace them with the conventional ones. No wonder those children had spelling problems!

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• 10. At 8:19pm on 21 May 2008, U10783173 wrote:

  Anne P - All the time! A case in point today - Man Utd described as the first English team to win the European Cup. They are never described as the second British team to win it, in the way that Glasgow Celtic are described as the first British team to win it.
  
  

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• 11. At 9:06pm on 21 May 2008, Humph wrote:

  On the spelling thing . . . presumably that would require a better grasp of grammar. For example how would you spell *know*? If it is to be spelt *no* what does the following sentence, deliberately void of punctuation, mean:
  
  No what I mean
  
  H.

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• 12. At 11:50pm on 21 May 2008, Chris_Ghoti wrote:

  Humph @ 11, shouldn't that be
  
  no wat i mene?

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• 13. At 11:57pm on 21 May 2008, Deepthought wrote:

  See my post in the day's glass box re spelling....

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• 14. At 07:18am on 22 May 2008, RJMolesworth wrote:

  Deep 13
  
  Mr Samuel Clemens version would doubtless win the spelling reform race over Mr GBS's phonetics. The USA already refuses to accept our spelling so the way to breakdown communications completely would be change our spelling with out reference to them. And what about the Australians (Oztraliens), et al.

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• 15. At 07:29am on 22 May 2008, RJMolesworth wrote:

  Syncretic 6
  
  What does "unadjusted" in "unadjusted for literacy disability" mean?

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• 16. At 08:21am on 22 May 2008, gossipmistress wrote:

  Chris (12) hahaha

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• 17. At 10:51am on 22 May 2008, U11204129 wrote:

  In the spirit of theme unity for this thread, is that musik phestival at Barth or Bath (ryming with larf ('I nearly died') and faff (as in'..about'))?
  
  pmLeader (President, Selph Xpression in Spellin')

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• 18. At 3:33pm on 22 May 2008, Vyle Hernia wrote:

  Gillianian (9) You have reminded me of certain systems of money and measurement that we learned, and then had to replace with a new set purely as a sop to what was then the Common Market. At one time we used to have to convert £ s. d. to decimal at school, and I was hopeless. Yet when the £p came in, I grasped the conversion easily and almost immediately. Strange?

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• 19. At 3:36pm on 22 May 2008, U10783173 wrote:

  Vyle - Don't those square coins wear out your pockets?

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• 20. At 4:45pm on 22 May 2008, David_McNickle wrote:

  TIH 7, But he lived a lot of his life near St Albans. I've been to see his beehives. No spelling bees, however.

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• 21. At 4:48pm on 22 May 2008, David_McNickle wrote:

  RJM 14, "Mark my word.", that's what Clemens said.

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• 22. At 5:34pm on 22 May 2008, Chris_Ghoti wrote:

  RJM @ 15, big-feller box, you kick im teeth e cry.

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• 23. At 04:09am on 23 May 2008, Dennis Junior wrote:

  I hope the Bath International Festival goes off great!

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