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Ross Howard wrote on 03 May 2005:
[nq:1]"If 1 in10 Labour voters don't vote, the Tories get in." current Labour Party election-campaign poster "Only 1 in 5 failed asylum seekers *is* removed from the UK" Conservative Party web site (My emphasis in both cases.)[/nq]
Prescriptivists will just have to vote for the Tories and the great unwashed will have to vote for Labour.

Fra

[nq:2]"If 1 in10 Labour voters don't vote, the Tories get ... Conservative Party web site (My emphasis in both cases.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Prescriptivists will just have to vote for the Tories and the great unwashed will have to vote for Labour.[/nq]
I'm afraid that the Labour guys have it right. It is "voters", and no matter what the ratio, there are many of them.

Skitt (in Hayward

[nq:2]Prescriptivists will just have to vote for the Tories and the great unwashed will have to vote for Labour.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm afraid that the Labour guys have it right. It is "voters", and no matter what the ratio, there are many of them.[/nq]
This deserves a "Me too" (= LatvE/StAlbE/LiebsE "Me, too"). Ron, what say you?

[nq:1]Ross Howard wrote on 03 May 2005:[/nq]
[nq:2]"If 1 in10 Labour voters don't vote, the Tories get ... Conservative Party web site (My emphasis in both cases.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Prescriptivists will just have to vote for the Tories and the great unwashed will have to vote for Labour.[/nq]
That's why Ross is in Spain innit.

[nq:2]Prescriptivists will just have to vote for the Tories and the great unwashed will have to vote for Labour.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm afraid that the Labour guys have it right. It is "voters", andno matter what the ratio, there are many of them.[/nq]
It doesn't matter who's right or wrong, Skitt. All that matters is who votes for whom. Where's Mark Wallace when he really could provide a horse-la

[nq:2]I'm afraid that the Labour guys have it right. It is "voters", and no matter what the ratio, there are many of them.[/nq]
[nq:1]This deserves a "Me too" (= LatvE/StAlbE/LiebsE "Me, too"). Ron, what say you?[/nq]
OBintelligibility: What on earth dost mean, varlet? Grammatically speaking Skitt is wrong and Mr Howard's lot have it right.

As for the 'facts' I do not care, much.

Ross Howard (my copyedit, his emphasis):
[nq:1]"If 1 in 10 Labour voters don't vote, the Tories get in." current Labour Party election-campaign poster "Only 1 in 5 failed asylum seekers *is* removed from the UK" Conservative Party web site[/nq]
Obviously there are only 5 failed asylum seekers, but there are more than 10 Labour voters. :-)
Seriously, this is one of those things t

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} OBintelligibility: What on earth dost mean, varlet? Grammatically } speaking Skitt is wrong and Mr Howard's lot have it right. }
} As for the 'facts' I do not care, much.
I think he's holding out a lingering hope that the comma isn't really necessary in "Me too", where there's A

[nq:1]... }>This deserves a "Me too" (= LatvE/StAlbE/LiebsE "Me, too"). Ron, what say }>you? }> } OBintelligibility: What on earth ... all comes down to in the end: Sacred Tradition. And who better to ask than the Archdoyen of English Usage.[/nq]
One in three German drivers pass the test on the first try.

Where were youse guys the last time this went down?

Liebs, ex-

Last I heard, Mark Wallace was still living in the Netherlands. No doubt he and Donna have eaten at adjoining tables in some Dutch restaurant without realizing it.

Liebs