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Dave W

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Aug 26, 2020, 5:28:14 PM8/26/20
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In Radio Times, for Thursday BBC2 at 9.00pm, 'Live at the Apollo':
"Tonight's compilation of classic routines takes sex as it's unifying
theme."
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Athel Cornish-Bowden

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Aug 27, 2020, 10:21:38 AM8/27/20
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Time was when it's editor would have been pilloried for such a
solecism. Probably also for having "sex as it's unifying theme."


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Mike Fleming

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Aug 27, 2020, 1:22:06 PM8/27/20
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In article <hqptrg...@mid.individual.net>, Athel Cornish-Bowden
<acor...@imm.cnrs.fr> writes:

> On 2020-08-26 21:28:13 +0000, Dave W said:
>
> > In Radio Times, for Thursday BBC2 at 9.00pm, 'Live at the Apollo':
> > "Tonight's compilation of classic routines takes sex as it's unifying
> > theme."
>
> Time was when it's editor would have been pilloried for such a
^^^^ I trust that was ironic...
> solecism. Probably also for having "sex as it's unifying theme."

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Sam Hill

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Aug 27, 2020, 2:54:33 PM8/27/20
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^^^^ so was this...
Obviously intentional. ;-)

Athel Cornish-Bowden

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Aug 30, 2020, 6:23:19 AM8/30/20
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On 2020-08-27 17:22:04 +0000, Mike Fleming said:

> In article <hqptrg...@mid.individual.net>, Athel Cornish-Bowden
> <acor...@imm.cnrs.fr> writes:
>
>> On 2020-08-26 21:28:13 +0000, Dave W said:
>>
>>> In Radio Times, for Thursday BBC2 at 9.00pm, 'Live at the Apollo':
>>> "Tonight's compilation of classic routines takes sex as it's unifying
>>> theme."
>>
>> Time was when it's editor would have been pilloried for such a
> ^^^^ I trust that was ironic...

Of course.

>> solecism. Probably also for having "sex as it's unifying theme."


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Athel Cornish-Bowden

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Aug 31, 2020, 3:54:59 AM8/31/20
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Likewise. I assumed that if I posted in a group called
alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe I could be assumed to know that
possessive its has no apostrophe!


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