Mark Roberts wrote:

>John Francis wrote:
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>
>>On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 02:23:07PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote:
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>>>ann sanfedele wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Um - wait - that other quote I showed you was after I clicked on "TRADE"
>>>>
>>>>this one is from the link you sent:
>>>>
>>>>"Yophoto specialise in quality photobooks using state of the art print 
>>>>presses and an in house finishing team."
>>>>
>>>>Now if I, who perpetually make typos, can spot these two in an instant, 
>>>>how careful are they gonna be working with you?
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>>>>
>>>??? I'm still trying to find the typos.
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>>>
>>Me too.  I wonder if it's the difference in American vs. British English?
>>
>>Specialise (rather than specialize) would be correct in the UK.  Similarly
>>an American would expect "Yophoto *is* proud ..." rather than "*are* proud"
>>(which is the only thing I could see wrong with the original example).
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>>
>
>Yep. All looks like standard British spelling and grammar to me.
>
>  
>
hmmm I see,  I had no idea one said "are" after a sigular in Britain , 
or specialise without the s....

I was reading the company name as a singular  -- never knew that about 
brit stuff.

ann


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