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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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The latest issue of Pratim Das' Coloured Canvas magazine is out online, with a snippet from me on Acrylic painting which might be of interest. http://onlineartmagazine.weebly.com/robert-phillip-jones.html Much else to read by other writers, too.

Bill Cook

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Well written and nicely illustrated. One query, though. It seems to have been written by "Respectable Mr Robert Phillip Jones". And there was me thinking I knew of someone else who was growing old disgracefully.....

Pat Harrison

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Well spoken in favour of acrylics. Your paintings look good with the article. Are they oils or acrylics? ;) PS Just noticed the spell checker prefers American English. I ignored it, otherwise it would have read -favor-
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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1) We have to remember that the English of the Indian sub-continent has various archaisms which can strike us as amusing; I rather like this one! Although as you say - it assumes rather a lot about the particular subject in this case; I have been called many things - respectable has never been high on the list heretofore. What Pratim means by "respectable" is "worthy of respect", rather than the actually rather odd interpretation modern usage has placed on the word. 2) My spellchecker is also set to American English, because I get very irritated by the UK-English spellchecker always insisting on spellings like "recognise"; the truth is that no spellchecker can actually spell - if you always correct your spelling at the prompting of the spellchecker, you are going to be wrong at least half the time. Nothing replaces the dictionary; it's a pity that we seem to be breeding generations (well, I'm not breeding anything, but you know what I mean) which believe that the answer to everything lies in computer software.
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I always have a dictionary near to my computer which I rely on and am surprised to hear that the English spell check suggests 'recognise' - bring back the zee - er sorry, the zed. Interestingly I play a lot of on-line scrabble and most of my opponents are American; in the version I play the first language is American English (strictly I guess this should read USA English - are there other variants of our language in other American countries? I believe there is Canadian English dictionary.) but, nonetheless, the game accepts spellings from either side of the Atlantic and also recognises words which aren't recognised or used across the pond. The same applies, vice versa, if you chose the UK English dictionary so I can never see the point in having the two options.