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Old November 7th 06, 09:16 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Ron Natalie
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Darkwing wrote:
cool plane. I seen one in person at the Dayton Air Museum, it was
smaller than I thought. But they had the Valkyrie there to and that thing is
HUGE!

When the Smithsonian had there's in it's own temporary hangar it looked
small. Now that I've had to walk around that thing a gazillion times
it seems a lot larger.
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Old November 7th 06, 11:20 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bob Moore
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Ron Natalie wrote
When the Smithsonian had there's in it's own temporary hangar it
looked small.


RON!! I don't believe it! "their's".....:-)

Bob Moore
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Old November 8th 06, 12:49 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Bob Moore wrote:
Ron Natalie wrote
When the Smithsonian had there's in it's own temporary hangar it
looked small.


RON!! I don't believe it! "their's".....:-)


I hate spelling flames, but I guess I can handle an apostrophe flame.

It's "theirs" and "its", as in "had theirs in its own temporary hangar".

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Old November 8th 06, 01:20 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Alan Gerber wrote

It's "theirs" and "its", as in "had theirs in its own temporary hangar".


Whoops!

Bob
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Old November 8th 06, 11:07 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Bob Moore wrote:

Whoops!

Bob


whoops or oops? I can never get totally comfortable with this language


Ramapriya

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Old December 4th 06, 11:43 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Alan Gerber wrote:
Bob Moore wrote:
Ron Natalie wrote
When the Smithsonian had there's in it's own temporary hangar it
looked small.


RON!! I don't believe it! "their's".....:-)


I hate spelling flames, but I guess I can handle an apostrophe flame.

It's "theirs" and "its", as in "had theirs in its own temporary hangar".


Had "its" in "its" hangar.

The Smithsonian is considered a singular entity.

I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style".

*sigh*
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Old December 5th 06, 12:14 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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In article ,
Blanche wrote:

The Smithsonian is considered a singular entity.


Unless you're British :-)
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Old December 5th 06, 12:29 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Then you would know that periods always go inside quotation marks. :-)

Blanche wrote:


I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style".

*sigh*

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Old December 8th 06, 01:14 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Trivia: This is why periods always go inside the quotation marks (helps me
remember): In the old days of mechanical printing presses and manual
typesetting, the letter pieces looked similar to the strikers on old
typewriters; rectangular pieces of metal. A period piece [.] was only half
as wide as a double-quote [' '] and if it was at the end of a line, which is
common at the end of quotes or paragraphs, the half-width, full-heighth
period piece could lean just a little and eventually wiggle lose. As the
inking/printing mechanism moved over the wayward period, the piece could
snap off and monkey up the works.

To compensate for this, printing press operators and typesetters ignored the
editors made a command decision: They started tucking the [.] inside the
square [' '] piece in order to secure it and hold it still. According to
an old typesetter at the Oregon State printing press, that's why the period
goes inside the quote as such: [.][' '] (end of line)

-c

"RomeoMike" wrote in message
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Then you would know that periods always go inside quotation marks. :-)



I spent too many years with Strunk & White's "Elements of Style".

*sigh*



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Old December 8th 06, 05:15 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jose[_1_]
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As the inking/printing mechanism
moved over the wayward period, the piece could
snap off and monkey up the works.


.... except that the last piece of type is also held in place by
something. We had a discussion here some time ago about this very
thing, and I think the conclusion was that this was an OWT.

Jose
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