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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2008 9:42:49 GMT
I recently produced a website for Ellie's Dairy; a goat farm in Kent.
We decided that Goats' Milk was the correct name of the product.
But the largest UK suppliers take a different view. St. Helen's Farm labels its product Goats Milk but uses Goats' Milk throughout its website.
Delamere Dairy follows the same rule: wrong (in our view) on labels and right in text.
Is a bilateral approach permissible?
In other research we found consistent use in documents of the terms Goat Milk and Cow Milk.
Opinions please. We wouldn't want a boycott by Kentish Apostrophiles.
PS Our current batch of labels labels was accidentally printed without the apostrophe but we thought it un-green to waste them.
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Post by Pete on Aug 31, 2008 12:50:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2008 13:42:48 GMT
Odd. Before posting I entered Goat in the search box and nothing came up. Or was that the APS forum - which I thought I was posting on.
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Post by Dave on Aug 31, 2008 15:26:11 GMT
Odd. Before posting I entered Goat in the search box and nothing came up. Or was that the APS forum - which I thought I was posting on. One thing about the function here is the time frame for searching: 7 days is the default. I had to put in 90 days to get the cheese thread to come up!
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Post by Pete on Aug 31, 2008 16:37:27 GMT
Odd. Before posting I entered Goat in the search box and nothing came up. Or was that the APS forum - which I thought I was posting on. One thing about the function here is the time frame for searching: 7 days is the default. I had to put in 90 days to get the cheese thread to come up! I took the long-winded approach and just looked for it. But I was pretty certain that I knew where it was.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Aug 31, 2008 20:04:27 GMT
There's not many places you can read about a goat exemplar.
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Post by Dave on Sept 1, 2008 0:58:05 GMT
There's not many places you can read about a goat exemplar. There's loads of English which isn't in dictionaries. I'm curious about your use of there's where I might've used there're for number agreement; am I missing something? (Variant? )
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Post by Paul Doherty on Sept 1, 2008 9:03:32 GMT
British English (and slightly down-market British English at that), I think, Dave.
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Post by Pete on Sept 1, 2008 17:08:20 GMT
You certainly wouldn't say "there is loads of places", etc. You would say "there are ..."
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Post by Paul Doherty on Sept 1, 2008 17:33:41 GMT
Indeed, but I didn't say "there is", I said "there's". And it is what I'd say -- I didn't do it on purpose, and I wasn't making a point!
Complicated stuff, language!
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Post by Pete on Sept 1, 2008 18:42:29 GMT
Indeed, but I didn't say "there is", I said "there's". And it is what I'd say -- I didn't do it on purpose, and I wasn't making a point! Complicated stuff, language! In case it wasn't clear, Paul, I was just agreeing with your assessment that "there's" constituted a down-marketr version of English. Arguably, it's a colloquialism. Of course, if I were to say that the use of "there's" was incorrect, I have a fair idea of your response!
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Post by Twoddle on Sept 1, 2008 19:02:22 GMT
Of course, if I were to say that the use of "there's" was incorrect, I have a fair idea of your response! Go on! You know you want to.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Sept 1, 2008 20:04:35 GMT
I'd smile serenely, Pete. I know you know no better. (In fact, I don't usually mind people saying correct and incorrect -- I know it's just useful shorthand for standard and non-standard and translate accordingly. It's when the ideas that lurk behind the words are trotted out that I tend to react.)
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Post by Twoddle on Sept 1, 2008 20:14:11 GMT
(In fact, I don't usually mind people saying correct and incorrect -- I know it's just useful shorthand for standard and non-standard and translate accordingly. It's when the ideas that lurk behind the words are trotted out that I tend to react.) Just because I used the words "correct" and "incorrect", it doesn't mean I agree with everything Genghis Khan did, y'know!
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Post by Paul Doherty on Sept 1, 2008 20:24:22 GMT
At least he made the yaks run on time, though, eh?
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