Talk:Sykes and a...

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This should be moved to 'Sykes and a...', of course. Rothorpe (talk) 00:18, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

P.C. Turnbull

Watching the episode "Sykes and a Plank", in which Deryck Guyler appears as a police constable, not Corky Turnbull, I wondered does he play PC Turnbull in this version of the Sykes series at all? In Plank, although the end is a bit confusing, it seems that he is Jack the D.I.Y. husband of Elsie whose floorboard Sykes has to replace in the episode. This episode is from 1964 so did the Turnbull character appear in the next series as semi-regular or did he first appear in the colour remakes from 1972, anyone know for sure? 81.111.127.132 (talk) 00:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

The first Eric Sykes show Guyler appeared in as a policeman was "It's a fair cop" in 1961

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The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 22:58, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Sykes and A... → Sykes and a... – indefinite article, should be lower case Rothorpe (talk) 12:42, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose; "A" is the last word in the title, so we capitalize it. Powers ^T 14:02, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
• Support as per my request. It was never the last word in the title. There was always another word, usually one (the first episode was Sykes and a Telephone, for example). Capitalised A wrongly suggests the letter A. Rothorpe (talk) 14:26, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

  You are confusing the title of the series with the titles of the episodes. They are different. We always capitalize the last word of a title, and in this case "a" is the last word of the sitcom's title. Powers ^T 23:09, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

  No, in no case. The last word was always ... And it's confusing - see following comment. Rothorpe (talk) 23:17, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

  A punctuation mark is not a word. Powers ^T 17:40, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

  An ellipsis stands for a word, so 'a' is not a proper last word before one. Rothorpe (talk) 17:45, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

  What word is elided? If you can't say, then it's just a punctuation mark included for effect, and the last word is "a". Powers ^T 12:38, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

I have explained that the elided word varies. The punctuation mark is not included for effect; it represents that word. Rothorpe (talk) 14:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

That's my point; there is no single word missing here. It's a blank, a cypher, a placeholder, not a word. It cannot "represent" "that word" because there is no "that word"; instead there are a variety of possible words, none of which are in the title. Powers ^T 21:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

So how do you pronounce the title? Rothorpe (talk) 02:08, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

• Support, it looks weird to me, presuming "a" is supposed to mean the word, not the letter. Red Slash 16:33, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
• Support. For the above-mentioned reasons. Lientinge (talk) 06:32, 4 June 2013 (UTC).
• Support. Ignoring the usual rule makes sense in this case, to make it apparent to the reader that the word is an indefinite article. It's easy to misread the current spelling as "Sykes and ey" because of the capital A. Jafeluv (talk) 06:14, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.