Posted By: teri on 2008-04-17
In Reply to: Ladies, BOS is not the be all-end all for style and grammar - ray

absolutely, I had one physician actually throw the book between all our desks in the office and said,I don't care what BOS states, I am the dictator and I am asking this department to stop making combined forms that do not exists.

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