Each pear, pear, plum...

[TheRedWorm]

... in fact many other items too in Sainsbury's yesterday, bore labels announcing that they were 83p (or whatever) "per each".

Good grief.

[TheRedWorm]

God lordly God, so you do. That is worse. I thought that someone had just set up the label printing computer thing wrongly. But it appears that some people actually think it is correct.

It can't be correct -- can it??

[NotQuiteCockney]

No, definately not correct.

But then, neither is "ATM machine" or "PIN number", and everybody says those.

[PaninoPan]

Try this please - "substance-related" - one word or two? I say one compound word. Appears in the acronym ASRO for 'Alcohol and Substance-related Offending'.

Please tell me the acronym should strictly be ASO.

[PaninoPan]

or it appears as "substance related". Without the hyphen. Which is just plain wrong. Isn't it?

[WowOoo]

I think 'related' needs to be there in full, but when an acronym ASO should suffice. yeah?!

[WowOoo]

The hyphen is better, yes.

[PaninoPan]

it hinges, I think, on the issue of the hyphen. If hyphenated, it should become one compound word. ASRO can only be correct IF there is no hyphen. Which, in my universe, would be wrong.

[PaninoPan]

[TheRedWorm]

Yes there should be a hyphen, to show that the words are jointly qualifying the noun.

But if the couplet occurred in a construct like 'her offending was not substance related', it would not need a hyphen.

Really there ought to be a 'hanging' hyphen after 'alcohol', to show that it too is qualifying 'offending' jointly with the word 'related.

So... 'alcohol- and substance-related offending'

..but sometimes it's daft to be too correct

[PaninoPan]

Eye thank yew v muchos.