No Punctuation Allowed.

[chrissa1]

Having just moved, I tried to update my address on the Teachers' Pensions website. The site wouldn't let me, and when I rang them, they told me that the site doesn't allow any punctuation marks to be used on their forms.

Strange, or what??

[chrissa1]

I sort of see your point, TCL but you'd have to be a really sloppy writer to do it, I think. Lol.

[DTCwordfan]

gram was the American version, used over here in part - and, other than the medical world, they don't even use metric - heathens.

[Peter Pedant]

I think alot of you are talking about mutation of languages and yes they do mutate ( at different rates )

The comma may have been used but blimey mate it is a bit Victorian

I am surprised about hyphens because some names are - Twistleton-Wickham-Fiennes springs to mind and some arent Selwyn Crawford

Oh if you are interested the rate of mutation varies with the ( reciprocal ) of the distance from the irigin so peripheral ( far away ) diatects persist in older forms ( slower mutation ) and more uniform character ( slow mutation ) as evidenced by Taxan German Patagonian Welsh and Quebecois

oh and the persistence of dialects in the country of origin - in this case England 00 arr moi dear

[jourdain2]

Grrr! Keith Waterhouse began the 'Abolition of Aberrant Apostrophes Association' if anyone remembers. My contribution was a Travel Agent's placard in Bingley (W. Yorks.) which advertised a holiday flying from Leed's/Bradford Airport!!!!

Seriously, English is a complex communication code in which correct apostrophe usage plays an important part; it's not exactly difficult to get it right, my 10 year old granddaughter has mastered it.

[jourdain2]

^^ Sweating now in case I mistyped one!