So who did BA outsource their IT to?

[MrMarkyMark]

Our you sure it isn't:
"Sew too whom does B.a. Outsource it's It?"

How about

Which "Cheap" Outsourcer Royally Buggered up BAs Systems?

[NotAllThere]

As a supporter of the Plain English Campaign, may I request that the title of this thread be renamed to "So, to whom did BA outsource their IT?" ?

No. There are some things up with which I shall not put. E.g. idiotic "rules" of grammar.

[northernladyuk]

That depends on whether you define BA as a corporate entity or a collective. Either is valid.

Anyhow, I was always taught not to end a sentence with a preposition.

Such grammatical strictures may no longer be in vogue but I'm quite happy to stick with standards commensurate with O' Level English Language circa 1979, thank you very much.

The semantic meaning of the sentence is as a corporate entity. Therefore my version is grammatically correct and yours is incorrect.

You were taught according to a prevailing fashion that had no founding in the realities of English grammar beyond the ideas of grammarians who sought to apply Latin principles to English.

So when you corrected the OP, you were wrong and old fashioned and also misunderstood Plain English.

[Pip in a Poke]

The semantic meaning of the sentence is as a corporate entity. Therefore my version is grammatically correct and yours is incorrect.

You were taught according to a prevailing fashion that had no founding in the realities of English grammar beyond the ideas of grammarians who sought to apply Latin principles to English.

So when you corrected the OP, you were wrong and old fashioned and also misunderstood Plain English.

Fark Orf!

[MrMarkyMark]

The semantic meaning of the sentence is as a corporate entity. Therefore my version is grammatically correct and yours is incorrect.

You were taught according to a prevailing fashion that had no founding in the realities of English grammar beyond the ideas of grammarians who sought to apply Latin principles to English.

So when you corrected the OP, you were wrong and old fashioned and also misunderstood Plain English.

Maybe you are expecting a little too much from a simple socky account

[Pip in a Poke]

The semantic meaning of the sentence is as a corporate entity. Therefore my version is grammatically correct and yours is incorrect.

You were taught according to a prevailing fashion that had no founding in the realities of English grammar beyond the ideas of grammarians who sought to apply Latin principles to English.

So when you corrected the OP, you were wrong and old fashioned and also misunderstood Plain English.

Anyhow, ending a sentence with the preposition "to" makes one sound like an illiterate Somerset beer boy.

[northernladyuk]

Anyhow, ending a sentence with the preposition "to" makes one sound like an illiterate Somerset beer boy.

Not when using an intransitive phrasal verb.

[Pip in a Poke]

Not when using an intransitive phrasal verb.

Compiling all these vignettes from Wikipedia must take some time. Don't you think you should run along and do some work?

[northernladyuk]

Compiling all these vignettes from Wikipedia must take some time. Don't you think you should run along and do some work?

I have a Latin degree.

[Bee]

WNLDYUK said.

I did consider it but it looks old fashioned and stuffy (I would, of course, used NLDYUK's correct question had I wanted to sound like Jacob Rees-Mogg).

In my point of view, the Pip in a Poke version sounds better, but the way you write I always had an impression that you are from the North. No?