User talk:Doubtfulsound

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Verdun
Dear Doubtfulsound

I was just looking at your improvements to the Verdun article in the anglophone wiki. Looks good (and in some instances overdue). However, I hope you don't mind that I think I found a typing error in the phrase pasted just below. And yet .... you had so deliberately substituted bled for bleed that I wondered if perhaps I was the one missing something obvious with this: so I haven't presumed to change it myself! I'm looking at the Battle of Verdun section second para

"The logic of initiating a battle not to gain territory or a strategic position but simply to create a self-sustaining killing ground - to bled the French Army white - pointed to the grimness of military realities in 1916"

Surely we a needing a simple infinitive here - to bleed

Best greetings Charles01 06:18, 30 March 2007 (UTC)