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Originally Posted by Spectato
Shurely? 
Such is the problem with policing grammar on the Web.
We all screw up occasionally!
(Besides which, it would take a team of ten, full-time grammar Nazis, just to deal with the offences committed on this board!) |
The "shurely" is a recurring joke from
Private Eye.....
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"(Shome mishtake, shurely? Ed)" is a frequent comment supposedly scribbled into the copy by the editor and mistakenly printed as part of the article. The slurred 's'-sounds refer both to drunkenness, which Private Eye has for a long time associated pejoratively with journalists, and the distinctive speech patterns of Bill Deedes (who became Lord Deedes, but was known within the magazine as "Shir Bill Deedesh"), former editor of The Daily Telegraph and the eponymous 'Bill' of the Dear Bill letters. As an editor, Deedes was known for his complete lack of knowledge of contemporary slang and culture.
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I wasn't being a "Grammar Nazi", but if you had seen the original post from Damien, it said "defiantly" instead of "definitely", and I was trying to be helpful. Gary, however, I was correcting, as I have never heard of Catholic clergy being called "men in a cloth".
(violent pervs, yes, men in a cloth, no).