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Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale
I like this, Douglas (done it, in fact; poor folk have poor ways) but I think you need a tweak or two to make it fit the Speccie. Lucy is well aware that she has US entrants but the readership of the magazine is basically Brit. and some of your turns of phrase would sit oddly with them. I suggest you swap your z’s for s’s to make minimise and utilise, swap your hunting license for a shotgun certificate and make all the game singular – hare and duck in line with deer and grouse. And there are a few too many commas for the British taste.
Do others agree?
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I'm charmed by the way that competitors here, notionally in opposition, will try to help others win. A good deed in a naughty world, Ann. On the other hand, few posts on this thread seem very interested in the set topic - symptomatic.