If you're on RM's mailing list, you've just received the second installment of the life and times of Queen Anne. If you're not, you may want to have a read, and possibly browse through the rest of the blog.
http://blog.royalmint.com/early-years-queen-anne-childhood-girlhood/
http://blog.royalmint.com/rising-years-queen-anne-making-monarch/
And I found this comment oh-so-very-british:
http://www.chards.co.uk Lawrence Chard
Having criticised the Royal Mint's Fergus Feeney for saying "50 pee" instead of "50 pence, I can't let Joanne escape without comment on her illogical use of "separately to" instead of the correct "separately from".
Separation denotes divergence as opposed to convergence.
Perhaps I am being pedantic, as often, but as the article informs us that Joanne used to teach English, then we should expect her to speak it correctly.
In her defence, she is in good company with Jeremy Paxman who once defended his use of "different to", saying that language evolves. At least Fergus learnt from his mistake, whereas Jeremy presumably insists on stubbornly refusing to learn and improve.
Let's not let dodgy logic spoil an otherwise interesting article, and I look forward to reading the next instalment.
Wonder what he'd make of some of the stuff we post around here, eh? :angel:
The mind boggles.!! :mr47_05: