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One piece of pedantry only, thanks.
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Various missing or misplaced apostrophes, e.g. "New Years' Day".
dg writes: Insufficiently specifically pedantic. |
I think Richmond park is London's largest park.
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I cannot abide 'could of'. What's wrong with 'could have '?
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Is the Pedantry you are looking for about the fact that it is Kensington Gardens next to the Palace not Hyde Park?
dg writes: Exactly this kind of thing, yes. |
"it's" should read "its"
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Queen Caroline did not dam the lake. The lake was dammed on the wishes of/on the command of Queen Caroline.
dg writes: You've totally got the idea of this. |
Queen Caroline ordered the River Westbourne to be dammed.
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Use of recreate as a verb is an Americanism - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recreate
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Since you ask, insufficient capitalisation in Kensington Palace
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She never had the title Princess Diana.The fountain is formally named the "Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain" or informally referred to as the "Diana Memorial Fountain".
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"occuring" (US English) should be "occurring" (UK English)
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@Dominic H: 'UK English' should read : 'English'
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"The lost river Tyburn" should be "Tyburn Brook".
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The park wasn't granted access (to the public), the public were granted access to the park.
BTW, today's posts would have qualified you to be a churnalist on the Daily Telegraph ! |
I think you'll find that those 'unnumbered' acres amount to 350, to be more precise.
(I love this) |
Isn't that cold swim on Christmas Day?
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Richmond Park is bigger?
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London's largest park.
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Noon update:
Any number of comments accepted, but only one piece of pedantry per comment, thanks. |
You missed the apostrophe in 'London's'
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Shouldn't it be 'Speakers' Corner'?
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It would be 'vigorous' debate at Speaker's Corner, except that it's not a debating forum.
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You can't dam a lake; a lake results if you dam a stream or river.
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Scores of Londoners? More like thousands.
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The apostrophe in "It's also a Royal Park" appears to have migrated to "Perhaps its finest feature"
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If it's naturally occurring, it's a spring, not a borehole
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Spelling of "artificial"
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Is it 'Londons' or should that be 'London's' as there is only one London ( at least in the UK) or do all Londons across the world have a Hyde Park ?
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... and a small waterfall tumbles ornamentally over the sluice at the far end. (Take care to never split infinitives or adverb / noun order !)
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The Serpentine swimmers do not "always" end up on the TV news". They often appear on the TV news.
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There are only 11 royal parks
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... it was unusual because it was curved, whereas up until then most artificial lakes had been more rectilinear.
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An area near the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain is cordoned off for use by swimmers. (If it's cordoned off, it's already special.)
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... members of the Serpentine Swimming Club go for a chilly dip. (It's not always freezing on Christmas Day.)
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"A small waterfall ornamentally tumbles" should read "A small waterfall tumbles ornamentally". NOT for the reason given above (that you should never separate subject from verb by an adverb - sometimes this is perfectly acceptable, for example "Peanuts never mumble"). The reason is than in this case the original wording looks and sounds clumsy.
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Hyde park's official website says it was opened to the public in 1637.
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Mold rather than Mould
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The plural of heron is herons.
dg writes: According to the dictionary, both heron and herons are acceptable plurals. But I agree, the latter is much more common. |
'boreholes in the chalk aquifer' rather than 'chalk boreholes'
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Water doesn't flow over a sluice. so it must be a weir or spillway
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Because the previous clause uses 'I'm' and not 'I am', I would insert an 'I' immediately before 'find the café menus unexceptional'.
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That's time up, thanks!
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