Years ago. I can remember c (=circa) 1975 the soccer scores were displayed
on the screen on British television in the format
Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspurs
and read out as "Arsenal vee Tottenham..."
:-)
John Leonard
On 09/06/2009 10:46am, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
Hi Rob,
This gets up my nose a bit as well. I first noticed it slipping in about
4 years ago. It is another Americanism, and has slipped in via sloppy
journalism (is there any other type these days?).
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 09/06/2009, at 9:18 AM, Rob Geraghty wrote:
Just a point of pedantry not related to birding - can anyone tell me when
it became common to concatenate "versus" to "v" rather than "vs"? I am
guessing it's something advertisers began to make headlines narrower, a
bit like the new habit of leaving out the words "hundred" and "thousand"
in advertising to make 17,990 sound smaller.
This is not a criticism of anyone on the list. I'm honestly curious if
anyone noticed when this use of "v" began.
Rob
PS Ob-birding: miserable weekend for birding in Canberra. Cold, windy,
and the birds had very sensibly looked elsewhere for shelter. :(
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