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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2018 10:59:34 GMT
Interesting enough to pass a few minutes. The site is in Spanish, but the pictures are clear enough.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2018 12:41:51 GMT
Isn't the standard reference scale the area of Wales, such that Armenia is 1.5 Wales's and Israel about the size of Wales and Australia lots of Wales's (50+?).
Great fun
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2018 12:46:50 GMT
Espada!!! That apostrophe!!!
Good God man, pull yourself together.
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Post by Alanović on May 18, 2018 12:52:30 GMT
No, he's quite right. You can write Wales's or Wales'. As someone with a surname which ends in S I've come across this many times before. Neither is right, neither is wrong. You can use either. I prefer Wales's myself, because that's how you say it.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2018 12:55:34 GMT
He is not writing in the possessive, he is writing in the plural.
"Heaven" is how you say it when you are considering many Waleses.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2018 14:50:32 GMT
Que?
If you want a thread about grammar pedancy go to the HJ site. Mind you, Waleses looks as good as Wales's but also far more Polish or Czech...
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Post by Alanović on May 21, 2018 8:57:07 GMT
He is not writing in the possessive, he is writing in the plural. "Heaven" is how you say it when you are considering many Waleses. I was reading an extra "sizes" after his second 'Wales's'. Hence both 'Wales's' appeared possessive to me. |
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Post by commerdriver on May 21, 2018 11:48:12 GMT
He is not writing in the possessive, he is writing in the plural. "Heaven" is how you say it when you are considering many Waleses. And here we were thinking you didn't like Waleses, from the prince of down to William & Harry Wales :-) |
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Post by Avant on May 21, 2018 15:43:30 GMT
Waleses would be correct - but there isn't much call for it, given the view held by many that one is enough. Often the best way to avoid this sort of argument is to say it another way. e.g, "twice the size of Wales".
For anyone who likes useless information....Not one British prime minister (starting with Walpole) has had a surname ending in S.
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Post by Rob on May 21, 2018 20:11:01 GMT
Thomas Pelham-Holles tinyurl.com/Thomas-Pelham-HollesPrime Minister twice.... never heard of him myself but I think you need to rework your factoid a bit. Made link tiny because there was a comma in the Wiki link which made the link unclickable from here. |
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Post by Rob on May 21, 2018 20:22:28 GMT
In response to Otto Krecht (odd his actual post is not on here but I got an email for the update):
Walpole was PM before Pelham-Holles.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 20:57:51 GMT
Why is it odd? I delete it because I was wrong.
Perhaps you need to get out a little more and stop seeing so many things as odd.
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Post by Avant on May 21, 2018 21:28:28 GMT
He was born Thomas Pelham, became Duke of Newcastle at an early age, and inherited lands from his mother's family, Holles, so changed his family name to Pelham-Holles. But as PM he was known as the Duke of Newcastle.
Fair enough Rob, he's a sort of exception - but it's striking (mustn't use the word 'odd') that there haven't been any other surnames ending in S in nearly 400 years of PMs.
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Post by Rob on May 21, 2018 21:43:01 GMT
It is a little 'odd' that in almost 400 years there haven't been more surnames of PMs ending in S I guess.
And I'd forgotten we can delete our own posts on here Otto :-)
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Post by Alanović on May 22, 2018 8:54:42 GMT
He was born Thomas Pelham, became Duke of Newcastle at an early age, and inherited lands from his mother's family, Holles, so changed his family name to Pelham-Holles. But as PM he was known as the Duke of Newcastle. Fair enough Rob, he's a sort of exception - but it's striking (mustn't use the word 'odd') that there haven't been any other surnames ending in S in nearly 400 years of PMs. Got this nagging feeling that, despite the obvious benefit to the country which it would bring, I may not be the person to break that streak. Maybe one of the offspring. |
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