On 2015-08-02 10:02 AM, sf wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 08:54:26 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2015-08-01 9:54 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>
>>>>> I meant prescribe as in prescribed rules. Janet needs to educate
>>>>> herself before she gets snotty with me.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> sf
>>>>
>>>> The first thing I do when I think someone has used the wrong word is to look
>>>> it up. sf is correct in her usage.
>>>
>>> Link or it didn't happen.
>>>
>>
>> It is only in certain forums that people will argue until they are blue
>> in the face when they are wrong and too stupid to admit it and too
>> incompetent to check for themselves, especially when it is common
>> knowledge to so many people... smarter people I guess.
>
> Google: prescribe.
>

You did not say that they prescribe it, meaning that is written down
somewhere as a rule . You said "The Brits don't prescribe to that." The
word should have been subscribe.... the Brits don't subscribe to that
(rule).