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  • OT: Darned Speelchucker..

    From Davey@2:250/1 to All on Monday, June 24, 2024 16:31:46
    My Thunderbird spellchecker did not like 'Pimm's' but suggested 'Pimp's' instead. Who are these people?

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  • From Java Jive@2:250/1 to All on Monday, June 24, 2024 17:12:07
    On 24/06/2024 16:31, Davey wrote:

    My Thunderbird spellchecker did not like 'Pimm's' but suggested 'Pimp's' instead. Who are these people?

    Obviously non-U and not the sort of people we should be mixing with :-)

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  • From Davey@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, July 14, 2024 13:54:20
    On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:12:07 +0100
    Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

    On 24/06/2024 16:31, Davey wrote:

    My Thunderbird spellchecker did not like 'Pimm's' but suggested
    'Pimp's' instead. Who are these people?

    Obviously non-U and not the sort of people we should be mixing
    with :-)


    Today, it refused to let me write 'Bedfordshire', insisting that it
    should be 'Hertfordshire'. Are there some more boundary changes in the
    offing?

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  • From Java Jive@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, July 14, 2024 14:12:11
    On 14/07/2024 13:54, Davey wrote:
    On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:12:07 +0100
    Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

    On 24/06/2024 16:31, Davey wrote:

    My Thunderbird spellchecker did not like 'Pimm's' but suggested
    'Pimp's' instead. Who are these people?

    Obviously non-U and not the sort of people we should be mixing
    with :-)

    Today, it refused to let me write 'Bedfordshire', insisting that it
    should be 'Hertfordshire'. Are there some more boundary changes in the offing?

    https://www.macfh.co.uk/Macfarlane/Reminiscences/HerefordshireHertfordshire.html

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  • From Davey@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, July 14, 2024 17:10:57
    On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:12:11 +0100
    Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

    On 14/07/2024 13:54, Davey wrote:
    On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:12:07 +0100
    Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

    On 24/06/2024 16:31, Davey wrote:

    My Thunderbird spellchecker did not like 'Pimm's' but suggested
    'Pimp's' instead. Who are these people?

    Obviously non-U and not the sort of people we should be mixing
    with :-)

    Today, it refused to let me write 'Bedfordshire', insisting that it
    should be 'Hertfordshire'. Are there some more boundary changes in
    the offing?

    https://www.macfh.co.uk/Macfarlane/Reminiscences/HerefordshireHertfordshire.html


    Hertfordshire and Herefordshire I can understand getting mixed up, but Bedfordshire not even being allowed?

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    Davey.


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  • From Jim Lesurf@2:250/1 to All on Monday, July 15, 2024 10:30:04
    In article <v70ird$5fa9$1@dont-email.me>, Java Jive
    <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

    https://www.macfh.co.uk/Macfarlane/Reminiscences/HerefordshireHertfordshire.html

    We routinely get post delivered to us - addressed to somewhere else!
    Sometime in a nearby street. Sometimes miles away. Which indicates that it usually isn't actually the postie who gets to the door who causes the
    problems.

    As you'd expect from that, some of our mail also fails to arrive.

    ....and some letters take so long to arrive that examples that contain a
    bill to pay get here after the payment date. That said, these are often
    ones sent out via non-RM businesses who exploit RM for the 'last mile'.

    Yes, we've raised this with our 'political representatives'... and - after
    a delay, of course - get an anodyne response... followed my 'business as usual'.

    Jim

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