My mother, god bless her soul, was an Inland Revenue Tax Officer, crossword fan, scrabble player and believed in being very precise with her use of the English language.
Many years ago she typed, on a proper type writer without any of this spellchequer malarkey an invoice for work that my father had done for a regular customer who was a director and part owner of a substantial factory that employed a team of secretaries as well as over two hundred people in the workshops.
Apparently the invoice my mother had submitted was the subject of great debate amongst the directors and secretaries as she had used “rooves” as the plural of roof.
My mother was very defensive when she heard of the debate from my father, however today as a avid Daily Mail reader she would have had her moment of glory when she saw the label saying rooves in the illustration in that Daily Mail article.
Forty years later and after she has died there it is!
My mother, god bless her soul, was an Inland Revenue Tax Officer, crossword fan, scrabble player and believed in being very precise with her use of the English language.
Many years ago she typed, on a proper type writer without any of this spellchequer malarkey an invoice for work that my father had done for a regular customer who was a director and part owner of a substantial factory that employed a team of secretaries as well as over two hundred people in the workshops.
Apparently the invoice my mother had submitted was the subject of great debate amongst the directors and secretaries as she had used “rooves” as the plural of roof.
My mother was very defensive when she heard of the debate from my father, however today as a avid Daily Mail reader she would have had her moment of glory when she saw the label saying rooves in the illustration in that Daily Mail article.
Forty years later and after she has died there it is!
