BBC licence fee update

There is something going round on facebook, suggesting that no one watches BBC on friday night, kind of boycott it as a protest

That won't be hard.

Joelsnan I so agree with that.

janeainsworth

Actually I do not owe her an apology.

As with Licence = noun
and license = verb, so licensing and licencing carry the same meanings

The reason my Licencing came out with an"S" was due to a spell-corrector reading it as a verb and my not realising it had changed it before I posted it.

A Licencing Agency is a place that gives Licences.

MawBroon was wrong.
My post above printed an 's' in error and should have read "licencing" as in the use of the word as a noun. Apologies to all that I did not see this in time.

It should be noted that there can be some interchangeability in the use of the spellings and that different continents veer towards one spelling more than the other. However, MawBroon is very keen to put people down and leaps on any kind of spelling that she reads as an error, with admonishments to the Poster, making herself look clever, and steering the thread away from the topic and towards her prowess. It is not helpful to the topic and only serves her self-interest by making the other person feel upset. I do not like to see decent people being picked upon in this way and therefore try to protect them.

Doodle. Thanks Doodle, just found your reply! Please see my reply above - I didn't notice my spell-changer altered it! It thought it was a verb, it was a noun!

Tillybelle A Licencing Agency is a place that gives Licences

You are wrong.

RE; the arguments about the spelling of the TV Licence,on their website about, refunds licence is spelt with a C, but when they say licensing it is spelt with an S,
Also words are spelt differently in America for instance, we say colour, America spells it color

Any your nastiness about Maw says a great deal more about you than it does about her.

blondenana. Yes and frequently Institutions and palaces change spellings and grammar just to pander to the ignorance of the masses because people do not keep to the original spelling and grammar. Thus spellings etc. change. I could show many wrongly spelled notices by some Government Institutions over the years. In fact we had a book of them (kept to read in the loo!) a few years ago!

errrr! "palaces" should be "places"!

On their website, DVLA is Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority - and isn’t ‘licensing’ in this context an adjective? Or am I completely missing the point?

MaBroonsback

You owe GabbyG an apology, she was right in spelling the word with an 's' thus
Licensing

Tillybelle
Please reread my post, that was precisely what I said

GabriellaG is clearly hot on spelling, as has been shown just today (Dying /Dyeing)
I was very surprised to see her fall foul of the U.K./US confusion .
Thanks to JaneAinsworth and all others who read it correctly.

janeainsworth. No "nastiness" merely literal description of what was actually here in print written by the person herself. I do not have to say anything in fact because that person shows herself as she is. I literally described what she did in the context of her being hurtful to another. That was kindness to the person she hurt, in other words the opposite of what you like to claim.

Back to the thread, does the BBC publish their annual budget? I suppose they do... I would like to know where all the money goes.

Sorry your latest attempt to take a pot shot at me so clearly misfired

there's this

They actually talk about "reinventing the BBC for a new generation".

That's who should pay for it then.

tilly thank you for your explanation. To be honest I have no idea whether you’re right or wrong. Being dyslexic I am useless at spelling and grammar just picking up on the error in your post which now turns out to be a spell-changer error (happens to me a lot).
My spelling (which is poor at the best of times) can sometimes be corrected by others. It doesn’t bother me much.
Perhaps I was speaking up for maw as my contact with her on GN is to be of someone who is kind, witty, sensible, thought provoking and interesting and a decent person. Sometimes, the people you say you are protecting, can say thoughtless and unkind things to others too. So perhaps not all a one way street.

I was a teacher and can spell pretty well, if unsure I check it with the dictionary, but I don’t bother being so pedantic with other people’s spellings. For goodness sake, does it really matter if the spelling is readable but incorrect? The poster could be dyslexic, the spell check on their iPad could have ‘corrected ‘ the spelling and thus making it wrong for the meaning, maybe the poster just isn’t too good at remembering the correct spelling. If it can be read and understood, that’s what matters.

maddyone I agree with you. If this were an official document or part of an exam it would be different, but this is supposed to be a simple "friendly" forum - as long as I can understand what a poster means I see no reason to double check their spelling, grammar or punctuation.

According to press reports today, Ben Fogle is donating a year's salary from his work in Animal Park to pay for over 75s TV licences.

I wonder how he is deciding who to pay for? Some of the people over 75 could well be as well off , or more well off than him .

Maybe he is just feeling guilty for taking a huge salary from the BBC ?

Pity he didn't ever think to pay for the TV licences of some young people, who's children will follow his program and rely on foodbanks for food. Still it wouldn't get the same publicity would it?

True gilly I'm not sure how it will work

Pensioners who have worked all their working lives deserve some assistance in their old age and I am surprised that any seem to thing ink these small perks are unnecessary. I will not be voting for the government again.

The 99 year old chap on Good Morning Britain today said that last week they were being patted on the head for their heroism in the war and this week they are having the licence taken away.