Tony's Tweets

[MoetVillan]

You started a sentence with "And"?

[WarszaVillan]

And?

[Edvard Remberg]

You started a sentence with "And"?

From Merriam-Webster

Many people content themselves with the trusted maxim "do not begin sentences with and or but." If you are interested in learning whether or not this is a sensible rule, well, it is not. And if you don’t much care whether the rule is sensible or not, and just want to keep telling people that they are wrong when they use certain words to begin their sentences, well, you are in luck, since there have been many more prohibitions against sentence-initial words than just and and but.

Firstly, has it ever been wrong to begin a sentence with and or but? No, it has not. We have been breaking this rule all the way from the 9th century Old English Chronicle through the current day. Many translations of the Bible are filled with sentence-initial ands and buts, and they even may be found in some of our more beloved—and prescriptive—usage guides. The 1959 edition of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style begins two sentences in a row with these prohibited words, and does so with nary a trace of self-consciousness.

But since writing is communication, clarity can only be a virtue. And although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
—William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 1959

[kipeye]

You started a sentence with "And"?

From Merriam-Webster

Many people content themselves with the trusted maxim "do not begin sentences with and or but." If you are interested in learning whether or not this is a sensible rule, well, it is not. And if you don’t much care whether the rule is sensible or not, and just want to keep telling people that they are wrong when they use certain words to begin their sentences, well, you are in luck, since there have been many more prohibitions against sentence-initial words than just and and but.

Firstly, has it ever been wrong to begin a sentence with and or but? No, it has not. We have been breaking this rule all the way from the 9th century Old English Chronicle through the current day. Many translations of the Bible are filled with sentence-initial ands and buts, and they even may be found in some of our more beloved—and prescriptive—usage guides. The 1959 edition of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style begins two sentences in a row with these prohibited words, and does so with nary a trace of self-consciousness.

But since writing is communication, clarity can only be a virtue. And although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
—William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 1959

For me it's not OK unless BE says it's OK.

[cdbearsfan]

BE is down with using "And" at the start of a sentence. And so am I. It's come up on here before.

[CT]

Oh dear.

Look, I like Dr X, but he's just retweeted the obviously fake "quote by Jose Mourinho".

That's a bit embarrassing.

[saunders_heroes]

Oh dear.

Look, I like Dr X, but he's just retweeted the obviously fake "quote by Jose Mourinho".

That's a bit embarrassing.

It's just a joke, what's the big deal?

[Tony Erdington]

to post on this thread you's need more gooder inglish. parody.

[frank black]

We've signed someone today according to tony, I think

[frank black]

✍️👏🏻#UTV

[manic-road]

We've signed someone today according to tony, I think

I saw that tweet and like a lot of Tony's tweets I can't fathom it out. Can anyone decipher it?

[frank black]

We've signed someone today according to tony, I think

I saw that tweet and like a lot of Tony's tweets I can't fathom it out. Can anyone decipher it?

Signed, round of applause Up the Villa

[manic-road]

We've signed someone today according to tony, I think

I saw that tweet and like a lot of Tony's tweets I can't fathom it out. Can anyone decipher it?

Signed, round of applause Up the Villa

Ta for that.

[MoetVillan]

You started a sentence with "And"?

From Merriam-Webster

Many people content themselves with the trusted maxim "do not begin sentences with and or but." If you are interested in learning whether or not this is a sensible rule, well, it is not. And if you don’t much care whether the rule is sensible or not, and just want to keep telling people that they are wrong when they use certain words to begin their sentences, well, you are in luck, since there have been many more prohibitions against sentence-initial words than just and and but.

Firstly, has it ever been wrong to begin a sentence with and or but? No, it has not. We have been breaking this rule all the way from the 9th century Old English Chronicle through the current day. Many translations of the Bible are filled with sentence-initial ands and buts, and they even may be found in some of our more beloved—and prescriptive—usage guides. The 1959 edition of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style begins two sentences in a row with these prohibited words, and does so with nary a trace of self-consciousness.

But since writing is communication, clarity can only be a virtue. And although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
—William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 1959

For me it's not OK unless BE says it's OK.

We were told that it would be marked against us in English GCSE's back in the 90's.  Somehow I fluked double A, so im sticking to my principles. 

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

We were told that it would be marked against us in English GCSE's back in the 90's.  Somehow I fluked double A, so im sticking to my principles.

GCSEs and '90s. Definitely a fluke!