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Madam,
This is not a matter of sour grapes for I missed one of the spelling mistakes in the
Spelling competition in Issue No 13. However, I see little point in entering it again, as
I listed four additional spelling errors that you did not include in the answers! On page
4 'their' was used when the spelling should have been 'there'. Admittedly, 'their' was
spelt correctly but it was the wrong spelling in the context of the sentence. On page 7
'Newslreader' should have been 'Newsreader'. On page 14 'birdwatchirig' should have been
'birdwatching' and 'Pesatas' should have read 'Pesetas'.
I also listed two additional 'spelling', or perhaps you considered them to be
'grammatical', mistakes. On page 3 the season of 'Lent' should have started with a capital
letter and on page 10 the accepted abbreviation for 'Honorary' Treasurer should have been
'Hon' and not 'Hons', the latter being the abbreviation used after a degree to indicate
that it was an Honours Degree, eg BA Hons.
Yours sincerely, Moss Taylor
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Sheringham News
On seeing in your issue No 15 of Sheringham News - I see there was 9 spelling errors for
the winning lady. On my list of mistakes I found more, can a person only enter once? Some
of the spelling mistakes are not on the ladies list at all.
Mrs G Castle-Sweeting.
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In response to both of the above letters, I will explain
how we arrive at our spelling competition winners.
In every issue we place a number of deliberate spelling mistakes and these we use as our
control. When we receive entries for the competition, we check for these deliberate
mistakes and everyone who has found them all go into the draw for that issue. When the
winning name is drawn out, we then check their list of mistakes against the magazine and
they are paid £1 for each one they have found. So, if we put in ten mistakes and the
winner has found fifteen, that person would receive £15 as their prize.
In the case of Moss Taylor, had he found all the deliberate mistakes and his name been
drawn out, he would have received £16 in prize money. You can enter the competition every
issue and if you find all of the delibarate mistakes, you stand the same chance as
everyone else in the final draw.
So, please do continue to enter, but please remember that it is a SPELLING competition and
as we have said before, not GRAMMAR. Melanie
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| New York Staff
Band |
On Wednesday 4 June, I was honoured to be
invited to attend the concert given by the New York Staff Band at St Peter's Church. The
whole evening was excellent and it is difficult to choose any single part from the diverse
music we were treated to, my personal favourites were, 'Someone to Watch Over Me' and
'Poor Wayfaring Stranger', both first class performances.
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With a heritage dating back to 1887, The Salvation Army's New York Staff Band has built a
reputation as one of the world's great brass bands. It has evolved from a modest
assemblage of seven intrepid players to its present configuration of 35 musicians. The
band has remained firm to its original threefold mission; to bring public awareness to the
work of The Salvation Army, to support fund raising efforts and to provide a model of
ministry and music making. All of the band's members are volunteers, musicians who worship
as well as perform, at The Salvation Army. A recent recording, 'Blazing Brass' was
acclaimed as 'CD of the Year' by one prominent brass band publication. May they soon
return.
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