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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Accountants are not just bean counters, or pea counters. And we can spell!
This was on the Telegraph's website this week:
At least they only omitted a 'C' in their spelling of Accountant in the headline. I once omitted the 'O'.
And why have they used a picture of green garden peas rather than beans?
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Are they 'has beans'?
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