[PW] Re: U.S. flag never at half-mast/half-staff

[Sylvia Milne]

Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?

In this country, on land we fly flags from flagpoles ;-)
This is a British flag etiquette site 
http://www.leicester.gov.uk/naco/Home%20Page%20Pics/NACO%20Flag%20Protocol.pdf
or  http://tinyurl.com/y99zzt
You will note that they use the phrase "half-mast".

Sylvia Milne

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http://www.sylviamilne.co.uk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "david meadows" <rogueclassicist at gmail.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>; <swguardian-stumpers at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 1:44 AM
Subject: [PW] Re: U.S. flag never at half-mast/half-staff


> On Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:56 PM aliquis scripsit:
>
> |   As far as I am concerned, arguments on grammar issues amount
> | to a hill of beans.
>
> then
>
> | It
> | simply amounts to you doing it your way and me, mine.
> |
> |   If you wish to debate the point further, take it off list and
> | send me a private note.
>
> Why bother ... sometimes confidence is mistaken for arrogance. Sometimes
> arrogance is, well, just arrogance. I have a number of grade sevens who
> insist that there is no real difference between where and were ... or 
> their,
> there, and they're ... they also don't know the difference between the
> meanings of it's and its. They all do it. I know what they are trying to
> say. It doesn't make it right.
>
> dm
>
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