TV Alert: Full Steam Ahead 21.7.2016 bbc2 8pm

[VEP3417]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07lpm6c

Historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn bring back to life the golden age of steam and explore how the Victorian railways created modern Britain.

starts tomorow 8pm on bbc2, looks quite interesting

 

[Deepgreen]

Hmm - I moan on about the collapse of grammar via this forum, and the BBC does this! Hyphen absence alert!

"The introduction of steam railways in the early 19th century changed Britain in a way no one could have predicted. This episode explores how they created a domestic revolution, changing the way we lived, from the houses we lived in to the food we ate."

 

[Bromley boy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07lpm6c

starts tomorow 8pm on bbc2, looks quite interesting

This does indeed look interesting, I will await it with interest. A chance for the BBC to redeem themselves after the shambles that was Trainspotting Live!

 

[Harbornite]

Hmm - I moan on about the collapse of grammar via this forum, and the BBC does this! Hyphen absence alert!

"The introduction of steam railways in the early 19th century changed Britain in a way no one could have predicted. This episode explores how they created a domestic revolution, changing the way we lived, from the houses we lived in to the food we ate."

I doubt that anyone really cares, if I'm honest. I will be judging the programme by its content and execution, not the grammar in the blurb.

This will be a more prefessional show than TL, an antidote so to speak (not that I particularly disliked trainspotting live)

Either way, it's good to see so many recent tv programmes about the railways.

 

[duffield]

Hmm - I moan on about the collapse of grammar via this forum, and the BBC does this! Hyphen absence alert!

"The introduction of steam railways in the early 19th century changed Britain in a way no one could have predicted..."

This is not really wrong. Modern usage (as determined by a number of different sources) generally accepts "no-one" and "no one" as correct and both are common. However "noone" is not recommended (although it is increasingly common).
Hyphenation has always been a grey area and subject to considerable change over time.

 

[2HAP]

I started a thread on this very subject and it got moved. As I now see this one has too. Yet the trainspotting live thread was left where it was started.

 

[jimm]

Hmm - I moan on about the collapse of grammar via this forum, and the BBC does this! Hyphen absence alert!

"The introduction of steam railways in the early 19th century changed Britain in a way no one could have predicted. This episode explores how they created a domestic revolution, changing the way we lived, from the houses we lived in to the food we ate."

The Oxford English Dictionary is generally accepted as the authority on English spelling. So how does the OED spell it?

No one...

 

[AM9]

The Oxford English Dictionary is generally accepted as the authority on English spelling. So how does the OED spell it?

No one...

What's wrong with 'nobody' then?

 

[DJ737]

What's wrong with 'nobody' then?

No-thing

 

[jimm]

What's wrong with 'nobody' then?

In the case of no one, there needs to be some sort of break between the two 'o's, doesn't there? Otherwise you end up with a longwinded way of spelling noon, with a superfluous 'e'.

There is not the same issue putting 'o' and 'b' together, so one word for nobody.

Just because Deepgreen favours using a hyphen in no-one, does not mean that the BBC writing no one is wrong. BBC house rules on writing styles may well dictate using the OED as a reference point.

How English is spelled and why is a rather complicated subject and can be rather random. Not surprising given all the various sources of words, such as Anglo-Saxon, Norse, French, Latin, Celtic, etc

 

[VEP3417]

diddnt think it was too bad. not that interesting but not un interesting either

 

[scott118]

meanwhile, back to the BBC programme..i enjoyed it, as i have, all of their other previous series.

 

[Cowley]

Yeah I thought it was really good. Appealing to train types and non train types. Loved the gravity train.

 

[Harbornite]

I enjoyed it too, looking forward to the next episode.

 

[Peacock X]

Part 2 on BBC 4 at 8:00 tonight. If you watch the scheduling they do repeat it.

 

[AndrewE]

Part 2 on BBC 4 at 8:00 tonight. If you watch the scheduling they do repeat it.

It's on Thursday night at 8pm on BBC2 on my TV... On now is Timeshift about BR, a very good programme when I saw it a while ago.