Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    "tiamiboat" 
wrote:

PEDANTS CORNER

>We recently had a two week boating holiday and ventured onto new 
>bits, namely the bottom end of the Leicester Arm. 

Sorry, Debbi, but there is no such thing as the Leicester Arm. There
is a Leicester Line (of the Grand Union, from Norton Junction to the
Trent), and the waterway between Loughborough and Leicester was
originally the Leicester Navigation. But no Arm.

Adrian

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& to think Dorothy, that you picked me up on criticising incorrect 
apostrophes--ye gods!
  Barry
  Nb practicallyperfectineveryway:-))

       

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