rockylizard wrote:

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 of is this just irrelevant minutia ? 

Cheers - John

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John I just love ya work,,, but you are either seriously having too much time on your hands OR you are underutilised in todays modern world,,,lol.

I'll figure out which one, one day.

Cheers Baz

Yep, some peeps have an irrepressible urge to correct others. Being corrected is okay provided it's not done in a cynical way. There's no need to be nasty about it. By the same token, there's also no need for the person being corrected to get his knickers in a knot about it. My next door neighbor went to her grave recently blissfully ignorant of the fact that hydrangeas were not pronounced hide-a-rangers. She used to get defensive when I corrected her so I gave up.

There's a journalist on ABC who keeps saying "preformance" instead of performance, which became a little irritating during the London Olympics. But I later discovered that some people just cannot get their heads or tongues around "per". I knew a bloke who could not say "spaghetti". He pronounced it pasghetti.

So there ya go, to be or not to be (critical, that is), that is the question. I suspect some people just can't help themselves.

To follow on from what Gary said,

I have sometimes noticed that some people have a problem with asking a question

they aks it instead.

I have no idea why they have difficulty putting the s before the k

but to get back to the op if I notice something is not quite right I will read the following posts and see what the general tone of replies has been. I find it may be better to PM an explanation and not necessarily a correction so the poster has a chance to better understand the subject off forum.