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  • The problem with "scop" to me is that the reader will tend to think it's pronounced as "skop" - even if you have an appendix/note explaining OE spelling conventions.

    Archaic terminology in historical fiction Carla 2006

  • Limpopo factory on Monday he did not like using the 'skop, skiet and donner' approach to employers not complying with labour laws.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • "This was not a skop, skiet en donner inspection blitz, but part of the Department of Labour's programme to build enduring partnerships with both employers and workers," the minister said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • "We will ensure that all farmers execute and are compliant with the relevant labour legislation, but we will not adopt a 'skop, skiet en donner' (hardline) approach," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Our focus was to broaden the skills base as well as ensure that they move away from the mentality of skop, skiet and donner to embrace Batho Pele principles.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • "The sentence serves as a warning to the existing fragments of rightwing elements and other criminals elsewhere who think that there is place for a skop, skiet and donder attitude in this country."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • "The ` skop and donder 'style of management will not assist the current state of affairs but add to the anger and frustration," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • In a statement on Friday, Numsa derided employers as "clowns and volkstaat-minded officials" employing a "skop, skiet en donner style of management".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Verlede week toe ons die Parlement toegespreek het in ons openingsrede, het ons dit nie gesien as 'n tyd om nuwe planne af te skop nie.

    NOTES FOR A SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT A MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AFRIKAANSE HANDELSINSTITUUT 1997

  • Verlede week toe ons die Parlement toegespreek het in ons openingsrede, het ons dit nie gesien as 'n tyd om nuwe planne af te skop nie.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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  • Variant of scop - poet

    October 12, 2011