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OP I've been sitting all morning making changes to a (rather official) document (and attempting to keep my attention away from all the new posts on this site ).
I was doing some work in a section of the document entitled Key Performance Indicators which then had the abbreviation "(KPIs)" after it... aaargh . Surely if the statement is plural, then the abbreviation should not also be pluralised!
Aside from the surprise I have at the volume of punctuation and grammatical corrections I'm having to make to this document, I'm stunned that all these things have been let slide for ... gosh .. who knows how long in a (supposedly) professional business environment. I'm a contractor, I'm allowed to level these criticisms at Management ... especially when they are not looking .
The point of my post (sorry it's taken so long to get here) is that this is one of my pet peeves, along with statements like "ATM Machines". Anyone else wanna share? Or commiserate?
I'm hoping like mad that I haven't made a typo or grammatical error in this post or I'm done for...
Hev
"friend you haven't met yet..."
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Pet Peeves about Words hev 02/06/02 03:17 AM pleonastic terms of troy 02/06/02 01:47 PM Re: Y.A.R.T. hev 02/06/02 11:27 PM Re:pet peeves and pleonasms Keiva 02/07/02 12:18 AM Re: Y.A.R.T. tsuwm 02/07/02 03:22 AM Re: Y.A.R.T. WhitmanO'Neill 02/07/02 03:38 AM Re: Y.A.R.T. hev 02/07/02 04:51 AM Re: Y.A.R.T. hev 02/07/02 04:47 AM Re: Y.A.R.T. Bobyoungbalt 02/07/02 03:34 AM Re: Y.A.R.T. of troy 02/07/02 03:52 AM RATA TEd Remington 02/07/02 06:00 PM Re: RATA Keiva 02/07/02 06:48 PM Re: RATA tsuwm 02/07/02 07:35 PM Re: Pro RATA hev 02/07/02 09:41 PM Re: Pro RATA doc_comfort 02/07/02 10:00 PM Re: AWAD Constitution AnnaStrophic 02/08/02 06:55 PM Re: AWAD Constitution maverick 02/08/02 07:33 PM . Max Quordlepleen 02/07/02 10:40 PM Re: RATA Keiva 02/08/02 12:11 AM Re: RATA TEd Remington 02/08/02 05:57 PM Re: (ER)RATA AnnaStrophic 02/08/02 06:34 PM Re: (ER)RATA Faldage 02/08/02 06:37 PM Re: RATA musick 02/17/02 07:52 PM Re: Pet Peeves about Words wow 02/06/02 02:48 PM Re: Pet Peeves about Words GallantTed 02/07/02 12:11 AM Re: Pet Peeves about Words Bean 02/07/02 04:12 PM Re: Pet Peeves about Words maverick 02/07/02 04:18 PM
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