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Born in Harrow Weald (north London) but emigrated to South Australia some 35 years ago.

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A few more from Harris

My mate Harris also attended yesterday and he posted these images on out home forum Aircraftpilots.com.au Enjoy.

The seller being an ex Lightning jockey he may have changed his mind about the sale 🙂

John.

Pity, I would love to fit it into an ultralight. Not sure what I’d do with all those switches though. Any idea what one of these would normally go for?

Sorry, refers to the Lightning stick top.

What surprises me is that the Lightning has pride of place. How come?

Talking about 2 different Spitfires here lads. Pat English’s one has a better engine cowl but still not any where near the original.

Ok 🙂

None – equivalent to zero – is neither singular nor plural so both “none of us is . . .” and “None of us are . . .” are both correct.

By referring to us – more than one – it feels more comfortable to me as plural.

I would suggest the following by preference but is and are can be substituted without error:
None on the forum is perfect
None of the forum members are perfect

I did check that one in my “troublesome words” guide first though. 😉

Whilst you may be correct with ‘none’ = zero, in the context ‘none of us’, surely it should be ‘no one of us’, which is clearly singular and not plural. Another case of lazy speech where one word runs into another.

I haven’t bothered to read this thread until today and I must say, I’ve enjoyed the discussion.
Re Dave’s post #11,, I’m with you Dave, the miss use of the apostrophe. Basically this has been bought about by poor speech and the slow ‘habit’ of running one word into another. In time this has crept into writing as well.
Example1: “There’s a hangar…..” should be There is a hangar.
Example2: “The aircraft’s tail….” not spoken but means the aircraft(its) tail, meaning belonging to.
As for spellin, well that’s gone to pot,’ hasn’t it'(has not it….oh my God)
For all you older and more correctness minded people, hang in there, it’ll all be right ‘on the other side’.

Ah, happy memories. I spent many a day there and even rode in the carnival a couple of times.