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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post

    By the way the team is named after a motor vehicle and is called Grenadier. Just the one.

    Why don't commentators stick an "s" onto all the other teams? Trek-Segafredos, Astanas, Bora-Hansgrohes?


    That is a rhetorical question.
    Don't you go up Asdas to get your lotteries, Graham?

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    Don't you go up Asdas to get your lotteries, Graham?
    No, and certainly not.

    I know I should get on with solving the Covid crisis but meanwhile...the riders are riders in one team: Ineos Grenadier. It is on their kit. When Ford sponsored a team the riders were not referred to as "Fords", CCC riders are not referred to as CCCs, nor Movistar as Movistars & etc.

    It is bizarre.

    The regiment of Grenadier Guardsmen is made up of Grenadiers. Plural. Grenadier in the case of Ineos refers to a single brand of car.

    Anyway about this pandemic...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post

    Anyway about this pandemic...
    The covids viruses?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
    & etc.
    Repetition of "and" (once in ampersand form, once in Latin).
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    Quote Originally Posted by anthonykay View Post
    Repetition of "and" (once in ampersand form, once in Latin).
    Very good, that's learnt him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by anthonykay View Post
    Repetition of "and" (once in ampersand form, once in Latin).
    Indeed, because & is from the Latin et.

    I am away to a dark room.
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    Thoroughly enjoyed the Giro. Probably the most I've enjoyed a Grand Tour for many years.

    Such a shame there couldn't have been more fans out there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by molehill View Post
    My instant reaction to reading your comment was that I had failed to insert an apostrophe, inexcusable on this forum,
    Is it excusable elsewhere? I would say no, its not. (Not even as part of a smart arse joke.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
    By the way the team is named after a motor vehicle and is called Grenadier. Just the one.
    Actually Graham, I just had an advertisement for the team pop up elsewhere (my browsing history has thrown up worse ads) and the 's' version is all over their branding.

    Anyway, must go, Hector and Lysander are at the door.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mud View Post
    Actually Graham, I just had an advertisement for the team pop up elsewhere (my browsing history has thrown up worse ads) and the 's' version is all over their branding.

    Anyway, must go, Hector and Lysander are at the door.
    Ha ha. Indeed. But the vest says Grenadier because there is only one model and Big Jim wishes to celebrate his vehicle rather that the members of his team, so there is no "s". At the moment anyway.

    This is exceptional for commentating and reportage.

    However if you are suggesting that Dave Brailsford likes it both ways - well he always has.
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