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Old March 17th 12, 11:06 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.transport.buses
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default The Oxford Espress is no more...

In message , at 12:37:48 on
Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Jarle H Knudsen remarked:
The home page http://www.oxfordtube.com/index.php actually has ""With
buses **from** every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day ......" (emphasis
added).


It doesn't.

Their copywriters will thank you for confirming the success of their
drafting so as to get you to miss the "from". But you may possibly take
some comfort from the fact that AIUI that trick only works with people
who read English well. So it doesn't work with visitors who (like me)
have to tackle any language other than our native tongue pretty much
word by word.


I used copy and paste from the flash at their front page. Here is a
screenshot: http://imgur.com/l40dy .


I agree. It says simply "With coaches every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day
you will never have to wait long..."

And even with *from 10 minutes* that's an exaggeration compared to the
timetable, which has at best "Every 10-15 mins" from 0800 to 1950 (and
fewer at other times of day).
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Roland Perry