"Born Fighting" - The story of the Ulster Scots (UTV programme)

[stew]

Basicially mw you are whatever you wish to be depending on whom you are talking to at the time.

This northern Irish of whch you speak? where does somebody get a passport for that nationality? Ballymena? Portydown?

[MW]

Basicially mw you are whatever you wish to be depending on whom you are talking to at the time.

Nope. That's far from what I said.

This northern Irish of whch you speak? where does somebody get a passport for that nationality? Ballymena? Portydown?

Can't get a Scottish, English or Welsh passport either. What's your point?

[saffron sam2]

Oh and Saffron Sam, if you're going to rate the quality of someones responses based on the number of posts they make then thats just a tad snobbish.

I also consider someone's ability to use the apostrophe when rating the quality of his / her responses.

In that case, you might be advised to use apostrophes correctly.

That is, the personal possessive does not take the apostrophe, otherwise it would be included in "his", "hers", "ours" or "theirs" etc.

And that would look silly, just like you...

Er, surely an intellectual gaint like yourself would know that there is an exception to the rule you quote, namely the apostrophe does occur in the possessive case of indefinite pronouns such as anybody's or someone's. We did that in first year.

Not for the first time in our dealings, it would appear that it's you, rather than I, who is looking silly.

Wally.

[Tony Baloney]

Oh and Saffron Sam, if you're going to rate the quality of someones responses based on the number of posts they make then thats just a tad snobbish.

I also consider someone's ability to use the apostrophe when rating the quality of his / her responses.

In that case, you might be advised to use apostrophes correctly.

That is, the personal possessive does not take the apostrophe, otherwise it would be included in "his", "hers", "ours" or "theirs" etc.

And that would look silly, just like you...

Er, surely an intellectual gaint like yourself would know that there is an exception to the rule you quote, namely the apostrophe does occur in the possessive case of indefinite pronouns such as anybody's or someone's. We did that in first year.

Not for the first time in our dealings, it would appear that it's you, rather than I, who is looking silly.

Wally.

Gaint.

[saffron sam2]

Oh and Saffron Sam, if you're going to rate the quality of someones responses based on the number of posts they make then thats just a tad snobbish.

I also consider someone's ability to use the apostrophe when rating the quality of his / her responses.

In that case, you might be advised to use apostrophes correctly.

That is, the personal possessive does not take the apostrophe, otherwise it would be included in "his", "hers", "ours" or "theirs" etc.

And that would look silly, just like you...

Er, surely an intellectual gaint like yourself would know that there is an exception to the rule you quote, namely the apostrophe does occur in the possessive case of indefinite pronouns such as anybody's or someone's. We did that in first year.

Not for the first time in our dealings, it would appear that it's you, rather than I, who is looking silly.

Wally.

Gaint.

Just too quick there Tony. Thankfully it was you and not the gaint himself!

[Tony Baloney]

Oh and Saffron Sam, if you're going to rate the quality of someones responses based on the number of posts they make then thats just a tad snobbish.

I also consider someone's ability to use the apostrophe when rating the quality of his / her responses.

In that case, you might be advised to use apostrophes correctly.

That is, the personal possessive does not take the apostrophe, otherwise it would be included in "his", "hers", "ours" or "theirs" etc.

And that would look silly, just like you...

Er, surely an intellectual gaint like yourself would know that there is an exception to the rule you quote, namely the apostrophe does occur in the possessive case of indefinite pronouns such as anybody's or someone's. We did that in first year.

Not for the first time in our dealings, it would appear that it's you, rather than I, who is looking silly.

Wally.

Gaint.

Just too quick there Tony. Thankfully it was you and not the gaint himself!

You could fix it and we could delete these posts before he sees it.

[saffron sam2]

Oh and Saffron Sam, if you're going to rate the quality of someones responses based on the number of posts they make then thats just a tad snobbish.

I also consider someone's ability to use the apostrophe when rating the quality of his / her responses.

In that case, you might be advised to use apostrophes correctly.

That is, the personal possessive does not take the apostrophe, otherwise it would be included in "his", "hers", "ours" or "theirs" etc.

And that would look silly, just like you...

Er, surely an intellectual gaint like yourself would know that there is an exception to the rule you quote, namely the apostrophe does occur in the possessive case of indefinite pronouns such as anybody's or someone's. We did that in first year.

Not for the first time in our dealings, it would appear that it's you, rather than I, who is looking silly.

Wally.

Gaint.

Just too quick there Tony. Thankfully it was you and not the gaint himself!

You could fix it and we could delete these posts before he sees it.

Thought about that, but I reckon there is a hell of a difference between a transposition error and ignorance of the apostrophe. One is a regular mistake that most people will make, the other an unforgivable abomination.

[Hardy]

Unforgivable.

[Tony Baloney]

Unforgivable.

Oh dear. It's a slippery slope.

[Banana Man]

also interesting that these ulster scots names don't have a 'Mc' or 'Mac' in them,

Eh?

Plenty of Ulster-Scots (or Scots-Irish) names have a Mc/Mac in them, including my own

i was referring to EG's post above mine that you quoted, he cited planter names and i was highlighting the fact that none had mc in them