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Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006Please correct this sentence.
Hello, I am just wondering if the below sentence is correct. "Does Mr.Robert of Wane county has any need for .NET? I am looking for a different project around." Thanks -L Learner <pradev@gmail.com> had it: > Hello, > > I am just wondering if the below sentence is correct. No. > "Does Mr.Robert of Wane county has any need for .NET? I am looking for ^^ ^^^ there should be a space have after Mr. > a different project around." This makes no sense - you'll have to explain what you are trying to say. Also I very much doubt whether Mr. Robert needs .NET; he might need a .NET programmer, or a .NET training course, or some .NET software.  SignatureDavid ===== > Hello, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Thanks > -L Does Mr. Robert of Wane County have any need for .NET? I am looking around for a different project. Thanks for the reply. I thought of using "have" instead of "has" but did it in rush. "Does Mr.Robert of Wane county has any need for .NET " is a complete blunder and tells that my communciation is not good. Or it is acceptable upto some extent? Thanks -L > > Hello, > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Does Mr. Robert of Wane County have any need for .NET? I am looking > around for a different project. > "Does Mr.Robert of Wane county has any need for .NET " is a complete >blunder and tells that my communciation is not good. Or it is >acceptable upto some extent? A complete blunder in that "has" should be "have" and "county" should be capitalized. When you refer to a county, you don't capitalize the word. When you refer to specific county - Wane County - you do. Example: He lives in the county, not the city, but Wane County has a fire department. SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL > When you refer to a county, you don't capitalize the > word. When you refer to specific county - Wane County - you do. (He means "to a specific county".) That's US and Canadian usage. In the UK and Ireland they'd be more likely to say just "Wane" or in some cases "County Wane". I also observe that there is no county named Wane in any of these four countries. There are, however, 16 counties in the US named Wayne. SignatureMark Brader, Toronto | An actual human would feel guilt in this situation. msb@vex.net | -- Scott Adams: Dilbert My text in this article is in the public domain. >> When you refer to a county, you don't capitalize the >> word. When you refer to specific county - Wane County - you do. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >That's US and Canadian usage. In the UK and Ireland they'd be more >likely to say just "Wane" or in some cases "County Wane". He did have "Wayne county" in the post. >I also observe that there is no county named Wane in any of these four >countries. There are, however, 16 counties in the US named Wayne. I figured that, but that seemed to be a typo rather than a usage point. I'm very forgiving of typos. I need to be, since I omitted the "a" in a Mad Anthony moment. SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL Mark Brader: >> I also observe that there is no county named Wane in any of these four >> countries. There are, however, 16 counties in the US named Wayne. Tony Cooper: > I figured that, but that seemed to be a typo rather than a usage > point. I'm very forgiving of typos. I need to be... That might be counterproductive when the poster was asking for corrections, though. SignatureMark Brader, Toronto | "However, 0.02283% failure might be better than 50% msb@vex.net | failure, depending on your needs." --Norman Diamond >> When you refer to a county, you don't capitalize the >> word. When you refer to specific county - Wane County - you do. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > That's US and Canadian usage. In the UK and Ireland they'd be more > likely to say just "Wane" or in some cases "County Wane". Or "Waneshire". Or perhaps even "Wane Council (Unitary Authority)" -- kinda like the Bay Area's own beloved "City and County of San Francisco", but they got a whole heap of 'em in the muvvercountry anymore. SignatureRoland Hutchinson Will play viola da gamba for food. NB mail to my.spamtrap [at] verizon.net is heavily filtered to remove spam. If your message looks like spam I may not see it. >> When you refer to a county, you don't capitalize the >> word. When you refer to specific county - Wane County - you do. > (He means "to a specific county".) > > That's US and Canadian usage. In the UK and Ireland they'd be more > likely to say just "Wane" or in some cases "County Wane". The only British county referred to as "County X" is Durham, in order to distinguish the county from the city of the same name. Otherwise, the usage is found only in Ireland. The county names are so familiar, and there isn't that many of them, that any educated person would know from the name of one that it's a county, and wouldn't need to add the word "county" to it. In this respect they function more like the states of the US than the counties of the states. Matthew Huntbach > The only British county referred to as "County X" is Durham, in order to > distinguish the county from the city of the same name. Otherwise, the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > and wouldn't need to add the word "county" to it. In this respect they > function more like the states of the US than the counties of the states. Truly. There are a couple of cases where substantial numbers of speakers often add "State" to the name of the state in many contexts to distinguish the state from a well-known city having the same name: "New York State" (vs. New York [LCIA] the city) and "Washington State" (vs. Washington, D.C., a city on the other side of the continent). I myself think calling the state of New York "New York" is actually wrong most of the time. SignatureSalvatore Volatile >The county names are so familiar, and there isn't that many of them, that >any educated person would know from the name of one that it's a county, >and wouldn't need to add the word "county" to it. In this respect they >function more like the states of the US than the counties of the states. True, but in several cases the suffix "-shire" performs the same function. SignatureKaty Jennison spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @ >>The county names are so familiar, and there isn't that many of them, that >>any educated person would know from the name of one that it's a county, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >True, but in several cases the suffix "-shire" performs the same >function. Also true, but since nobody ever says "County Devon", "Country Dorset", "County Surrey", "County Norfolk" or "County Cornwall" I think Matthew's point still holds. SignatureBrad Germolene > Also true, but since nobody ever says "County Devon", "Country > Dorset", "County Surrey", "County Norfolk" or "County Cornwall" I > think Matthew's point still holds. Actually, you do get a few Google hits in .uk. There are some 38,800 hits for "county devon" for example. Granted, the vast majority have punctuation between the two words, but you do find things like FORELAND, a headland in the Bristol Channel near Countisbury, county Devon. http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Miscellaneous/index.html which is a quotation from the 1868 _National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland_. (There are lots of other hits on the same page.) So it appears that it once was common in the UK, as well. Interestingly, that site has 343 pages with hits for "county devon", but none for "county dorset", "county norfolk" or "county surrey", and only two for "county cornwall". 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