atw: Re: Here it is: The Queen's English? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Thanks, Deborah!

That's really good - congratulations to all contributors. 

All you need now, to achive the required "frivolity and licentiousness", 
is the authority to change "canapés and mocktails" to "cannabis and 
cocktails"...  (Though I know universities have a reputation to live 
down.)

Howard
(see, I didn't really ridicule you, did I?)




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I meant I'm seeking approval of those who helped provide the wording :0)
But yes, my workplace is a little government-like!

OK, here's the wording I'm proposing with thanx to Susy North and Peter G 
Martin for much of it:

Here ye, hear ye!

Her Majesty the Queen hereby commands the presence of her loyal subjects 
for an equestrian contention between certain of her Colonial servants 
domiciled in portions of her kingdoms now known as Australia and certain 
other outlanders not so fortunate as to be so permanently settled therein, 
the game to be known by this her decree, as the Royal Polo ~ Australian 
vs. Expats.

Subjects should gather in the grounds of the South Oval as the clock 
strikes midday on the eighth day of June in the two thousand and seventh 
year of our lord. Subjects not attired with a hat and sunscreen shall be 
beheaded.

Faithful subjects will be rewarded with canapés and mocktails at 
conclusion of the Royal Polo.

The Royal Polo is held in honour of the celebration of the anniversary of 
her majesty's illustrious ancestors' birth, which has been an occasion, in 
times past, to assemble for the purposes of gambolling and sundry other 
nefarious endeavours, and for the pursuit of frivolity and licentiousness.

XXX commands acknowledgement of your attendance by the first day of June 
in the two thousand and seventh year of our lord.
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