On 15/10/2010 21:55, Gerard McConnell wrote:
... a staff. (stave? :-) ).
James
That's a funny one; obviously plural is always staves, I think staff is
preferable for single.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Heaven forfend! I may be shot down in my ignorance =8 )
Actually, we are about to push a Contributor Guide Document patch saying
that 'Staff' and 'Staves' are the two preferred terms to use within the
doc for consistency.
Regards
James
PS. Although personally a 'Staff' to me is either a big stick you go
walking (or hitting someone) with or a person who teaches others - you
see Teachers (in England anyway) when I was at school, always had their
lunch breaks in the 'Staff Room'.
A mysterious place that no child ever got to see except perhaps glimpse
when on an errand for a teacher and had to knock on the door, and even
then it was often full shady figures amongst plumes of cigarette or pipe
smoke, and on reflection, I am sure remember the chink of bottles and
glasses and lots of laughter.
But none of my teachers ever seemed to smile in class. Although that
does now kind of explain the 'faraway look' in the eyes of my Technical
Drawing teacher...
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