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Rossim, is the subscription fee for PU expensive? My Nitpickers Association fees have increased substantially over the past few years, so it's maybe time for me to move...

BTW I was happy enough with the word 'deliver' in the sense of setting free.
'Deliver us from evil' and all that. It was its position in the clue I didn't like. It could easily have been put at the beginning instead.

Thanks, Rossim. Yes, I too didn't mind 'deliver'/manumit, though I checked Chambers just to be sure of the definitions matching. I didn't like the clue because it seemed rather formulaic, somehow, and there was no cleverness, craftiness to it.

There is no membership fee for PU, Malone.
You are just expected to submit at least 6 pedantic comments per annum!

Malone and Rossim

Thank you for your amusing comments. I suppose the setter thought it read better at the end, as we might see "deliver" in the politicians sense. I hate "focus" too. I heard the PM the other day say "My focus is on delivering Brexit" - what a terrible sentence.

I should love to join the PU or NA but I am covered. When I became an accountant, I joined the ACCA. I thought it stood for "Accuracy in Crossword Clue Association".

Rossim, six comments per year? I'd be fully qualified by February.

Jigjag, I liked your ACCA membership thing!

Malone

Yes, expensive annual fees and when I did the exams, there was never a crossword.

Rossim, say, gets nothing out of defective notepad (6).

As a proud pedant I`ll gladly subscribe to PU !

I`m unfortunate to have an `H`in my postcode - when I tell people my address they invariably read it back and correct my `aitch` into a `haitch`... at least I know at that point the person is illiterate but the problem is they don`t!

Perhaps the forum should make Pedants United a permanent thread ?

Thanks, Tyke - our membership is swelling by the minute.

I can see why the 'aitch'/'haitch' thing would annoy you. That doesn't arise much in Scotland - I've never heard anyone here use 'haitch'.

A Pedants United thread would be good. I was going to start one with that title, but have no current bees in my bonnet!