respectively

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 31 03:18:44 UTC 2007


Or is it at the first restaurant on the 9th and the second on the 10th?

m a m

On 5/30/07, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
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> Reflectively, I'd imagine the writer was not hired for that talent.
> (the other) doug
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> An interestingly unnecessary and confused use of "respectively" in a
> press release I saw today:
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> The festivities kick-off with the Dairy Farmers of Canada Cheese &
> Wine Seminar Series, June 9 and 10, hosted by two of the area's most
> celebrated restaurants, Wellington Court in St. Catharines and
> Treadwell in Port Dalhousie, respectively.
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