Grammar and the Beeb

[rich p]

I realise that since Rex Alston put away his bow tie and dj, the BBC is not the standard bearer of the English bearer that it used to be, but should the sun have a capital letter? I assumed that they were referring to the hideous Murdoch-owned tabloid.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15146082

 

[accountantpete]

Not sure - as the capital does differentiate our Sun from the other suns out there.

 

[Friz]

Should also be Euro. Not Euros

Should be NASA. Not Nasa.

 

[rich p]

euro not Euro...

Or should that be drachmas...

...those Greeks certainly know how to make a drachma out of a crisis

 

[ColinJ]

'Less people employed', troops 'trained up' rather than trained and involved in 'fire fights/fire-fights/firefights' rather than battles or skirmishes.

 

[rich p]

'Less people employed', troops 'trained up' rather than trained and involved in 'fire fights/fire-fights/firefights' rather than battles or skirmishes.

bloody hell, Col, you're as big a whinger as me!

 

[Speicher]

bloody hell, Col, you're as big a whinger as me I am!

ftfy!

 

[rich p]

ftfy!

Hmmm, the biter bit?

 

[rich p]

Cheers. I'll have a pint, please!

You clearly have a pint of view

 

[GTTTM]

ahhh I take it you are all the pedants of the board - you can't go anywhere online these days without meeting some of you lot

I simply share with you
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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY[/media]




We know what they mean

runs away before she gets shouted at.

 

[swee'pea99]

Judging by a quick Google, it seems you can do it either war - upper or lower case. It certainly isn't wrong, as such. I think the difference between the celestial body and the hideous Murdoch-owned tabloid is in the the - ie, The Sun is the paper, the Sun is the sun (or Sun).

 

[CharlieB]

Pedant number 3:

Surely Sun with a capital is correct, it's a common object (i.e. a star) that mankind has bestowed a name upon, thus it becomes a proper noun?

 

[CharlieB]

More pertinently, where has Europe suddenly found a billion Euros to burn (pardon the pun) on a mission of arguably little benefit to us?

Didn't Scott, Alan and Tintin do a rescue mission for the last attempt in the mid-1960s anyway?

 

[benb]

The newspaper (if I can call it that) should always be capitalized: The Sun.
The celestial body the Sun, is a sun.

 

[martint235]

The Beeb have also employed someone from the North East (I'm fairly sure she's not a Geordie) to do the business news on Breakfast nowadays. What on earth is the world coming to???