Spelling, this Forum, Microsh!t & Mr Gites !!

[bogle111]

As an English Canadian immigrant in the 50s, I was always very aware that I should be spelling the Queen's English against those south of the border and at Microsh!t.

I have just tried to type

It must be remembered that the Japanese used to test their speakers with recordings from Japan,

and it came out as

It must be remembered that the Japanese used to test there speakers with recordings from Japan,

so I had to type "their" instead. Sorry to be a bit of a nerd about the English language but I really get P!SS*D off when a Mr Gites tries to correct proper English and he is wrong and hasn't got a clue!

I will never be as rich, but at least I CAN SPELL PROPERLY Bill!

Okay, off my chest, dead thread, I'll move on.

Regs
Bogie

[northwest]

My Nokias (designed and made by a Finnish company) always had great predictive text. My iphone is positively dangerous with some of the things it comes out with!

[bogle111]

Hi Graham,

Haven't forgotten about picture of the bit of oak, but found my Olympus(! excuse me while I hide $1.5bn) E20 was faulty when I got it out to take a picture of that missing piece of oak. Shall send a pic as soon as I get it back. Wife has educated me to the fact that we have 3 William & Mary chests in the house, all more than slightly different. William must have been one busy cabinet maker!

Remember when I first read "Pop Idol" it registered in my brain as "Poop Idle" - probably same difference, but that is my own brains' predictive text.

Regs
Pete

[Haselsh1]

Americans speaking English, now there's a novelty.

[Marco]

Hi Peter,


I will never be as rich, but at least I CAN SPELL PROPERLY Bill!


Sorry to be pedantic, but if we're talking about writing proper English, then that should've been written: 'I will never be rich, Bill, but at least I CAN SPELL PROPERLY!'

I trust that you appreciate the distinction?

;)

Marco.

[YNWaN]

Or:

Bill, I will never be rich; but.......

[Marco]

Or: 'I will never be as rich, but at least I CAN SPELL PROPERLY, Bill!'

Marco.

[snuffbox]

All about knowing your shit and knowing you're shit I suppose;)

[MartinT]

I personally groan at the misuse of:

there / their / they're

...and...

to / too / two

why can't people look up the meanings and use the right one? Just because we're adults doesn't mean we should stop learning?

[Batty]

My old Sony Ericsson always changed Simon to Simeon when using predictive text.

[webby]

The common missuse of lose and loose annoy the hell out of me.

Edit: the funny thing is, if you say them, the one that sounds like it has more O's in it doesn't, and vice versa.

[MartinT]

Yep, that's another one!

[The Grand Wazoo]

It's a tricky topic this, as I wouldn't want anyone to think they were being unfairly singled out as being 'thick' or ignorant or whatever.

.....but(!)..........something that really gets me going is the seemingly ever growing use of the word 'then' instead of 'than' - e.g. "this one is better then that one"

[prestonchipfryer]

I personally groan at the misuse of:

there / their / they're

...and...

to / too / two

why can't people look up the meanings and use the right one? Just because we're adults doesn't mean we should stop learning?

+ 1

[Beobloke]

As the son of an English teacher, I have become something of a grammar pedant over the years. My particular hate is the misuse of apostrophe's (see what I did there?!!) but the increasing use of "could of" instead of "could have" irks as well as all the other common mistakes already mentioned.

And, frankly, now that most BBC newsreaders and continuity annoucers have finally given up pronouncing the 'l' in "vulnerable" and the middle 'i' in "medicine" I'm not sure what hope is left for us all.

[MartinT]

Oh yes, "could of", "would of" and "should of" are horrible misconstructions.

[snapper]

I personally groan at the misuse of:

there / their / they're

...and...

to / too / two



The common missuse of lose and loose annoy the hell out of me.



the increasing use of "could of" instead of "could have" irks


Biles ma pish annaw. Cannae make heid nor tail eh sum posts.


:rolleyes:

[Dominic Harper]

Oh yes, "could of", "would of" and "should of" are horrible misconstructions.

I have A level English and I forever using the wrong word. There and their, of and have, to and too. the list is endless. But sometimes I'm just lazy. My pet hate is the over use of apostrophes.

Good grammer says u shud only use won apostrofey on each line, u shud have too spaces after each full stop . And u shud use each wurd corectly .

Soz 4 me bad spelin lololololololol.

Natalie;)

[synsei]

I was brought up to respect the standard of written and spoken English, standards which have sadly slipped with age I must admit. Being a regular reader of the BBC News website I often cringe at the poor standard of written English in their articles of late. I find this somewhat sad as the BBC was such a pillar of literary accuracy in my formative years... [/pomposity filter on] :lol:

[MartinT]

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I wish the BBC could understand the difference between the Union Flag and a Union Jack.

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