Spelling

StrangelyBrown

Does anyone out there know the difference between there, their and they're, or your and you're, or even when to use its and it's. If they do, can they spell 'accommodation'?
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And no, I'm not bored at work, honest

STEFANOS4784

This has come up before.

Make way for the pedants

Stewie Griffin

Im English and went to School in England so yes to all the above 8) .

ednino

StrangelyBrown wrote:

Does anyone out there know the difference between there, their and they're, or your and you're, or even when to use its and it's. If they do, can they spell 'accommodation'?
</rant>

And no, I'm not bored at work, honest

there is a bike over there
that is their bike
they're are bunch of cunts

keef66

I'm not a pedant, I'm a cyclist.

Oh, sorry, that's pedestrian.

I probably am a pedant.

STEFANOS4784

ednino wrote:

StrangelyBrown wrote:

Does anyone out there know the difference between there, their and they're, or your and you're, or even when to use its and it's. If they do, can they spell 'accommodation'?
</rant>

And no, I'm not bored at work, honest

there is a bike over there
that is their bike
they're are bunch of *****

Are you sure????!????

Crapaud

Stewie Griffin wrote:

Im English and went to School in England so yes to all the above 8) .

Ah'm not and aye didnt an' thats mah excuze.

MrChuck

Stewie Griffin wrote:

Im English and went to School in England so yes to all the above 8) .

"Im"...?? Tut tut...

Crooky

"They're are bunch of *****"???

they're a bunch of *****

MrChuck

It's not a spelling mistake, but one thing that seems very common lately is people using 'ignorant' to describe people who have ignored them. Really presses my pedant button.

Pork Sword

What really grinds my gears is when people can't get 'lose' or 'loose' right - how difficult is that? What a bunch of loosers...

SCR Pedro

MrChuck wrote:

It's not a spelling mistake, but one thing that seems very common lately is people using 'ignorant' to describe people who have ignored them. Really presses my pedant button.

Oh yeah, that annoys me too. Idioms are the worst though. "Pulling out all the stops" makes me cringe every time I hear it. But at the end of the day, it's just like, basically, ignorant to tell them that, you know what I mean like? :roll:

And then there's that American teenage crap. And I was all like, totally, Oh my god!

cullen_bay

its not hard is it, your or you're. you're is just you are but abreviated...

de_sisti

cullen_bay wrote:

It's not hard,is it? Your or you're. You're is just 'you are', but abbreviated...

nickwill

Led and lead are two words which seem to be used interchangeably at the moment. :evil:

nasahapley

A cycling-specific spelling error that regularly boils my p**s:

To peddle is to sell or promote something. The thing you do on a bike to propel yourself forward is pedal.

I am undoubtedly a terrible pedant, but does that count as being pedantic?

chriskempton

people who say "which pacific pedals do you recommend?".

grrr

STEFANOS4784

maander wrote:

cullen_bay wrote:

It's not hard,is it? Your or you're. You're is just 'you are', but abbreviated...

Say no more

There's a lot of that type of thing going on............

MrChuck

chriskempton wrote:

people who say "which pacific pedals do you recommend?".

grrr

Do people really say that?!

Special K

The malapropisms that really irritate me at the moment are those so expertly delivered by Indian IT professionals with added American corporate slang thrown in for good measure. :x

SCR Pedro

chriskempton wrote:

people who say "which pacific pedals do you recommend?".

grrr

Quality! I would reply by saying, "'I prefer Atlantic pedals, thanks."

Stewie Griffin

MrChuck wrote:

Stewie Griffin wrote:

Im English and went to School in England so yes to all the above 8) .

"Im"...?? Tut tut...

Sorry :oops: , I is English and went to School in England so yes to all the above 8). Is dat betterer?

Gary D

nasahapley wrote:

A cycling-specific spelling error that regularly boils my p**s:

To peddle is to sell or promote something. The thing you do on a bike to propel yourself forward is pedal.

I am undoubtedly a terrible pedant, but does that count as being pedantic?

The other cycling specific one that gets me is the brake and break mix up.

How many times have you seen them referred to as "break blocks"? Grrrrr.... :evil: :evil:

Gary.

Cycling Dave

I'm becoming slightly rattled by the continued use of the world "literally" by people who should know better:

"that dress literally jumps out at me"....... :?

Or the increasing use of apostrophes (particularly in plurals). I refused to buy a christmas tree from a stall because he was advertising "Christmas tree's for sale".. :roll:

I also saw a McDonalds advert which proclaimed "Kleptomaniacs rejoice". Do they really? I figured there should be a comma between the two words to convey the message.

Man that is pedantic.

keef66

I would of / should of / could of etc instead of would have.....etc.

Drives me potty. I blame my mum who was very particular about grammar

I suppose it's because people invariably say would've, and then write it so it looks like it sounds.

DavidBelcher

And another rant, in terms of spoken rather than written English; the plural of roof is 'roofs', not 'rooves' as used by umpteen cloth-brained TV/radio announcers!

David

StrangelyBrown

Its nice too sea that their are other's out they're whom also have speeling and grammer standards.

desweller

"Bare with me."

"Here, here."

Makes me seethe.

jimmypippa

MrChuck wrote:

It's not a spelling mistake, but one thing that seems very common lately is people using 'ignorant' to describe people who have ignored them. Really presses my pedant button.

I have only noticed this in the North of England* so suspect it might be more like dialect.




*(Manchester and Derbyshire especially, which my wife assures me is not the midlands...)