Grumpy Grammar Grinch Grouses...

**yellow** · 10-25-2006, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by mary9761

funny, if I'd started this I could have said Grumpy Grammar Gramma Grinch Grouses or Grumpy Gramma Grammar Grinch Grouses

Mary, you are awesome. Between this and your "owed"...thanks for the chuckle!

**CyclChyk** · 10-25-2006, 07:04 PM

Sort of OT but kind of not.......
My most annoying written word is "YOUR" when referring to "YOU ARE"..... I mean really, is YOU'RE so hard to comprehend?

Most hated spoken mis-words are numerous but top two:
"accrost" instead of accross. Since when was a T added to this word??
"ain't" instead of aren't. 'Nuff said.

**LBTC** · 10-25-2006, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by CyclChyk

Sort of OT but kind of not.......
My most annoying written word is "YOUR" when referring to "YOU ARE"..... I mean really, is YOU'RE so hard to comprehend?

Most hated spoken mis-words are numerous but top two:
"accrost" instead of accross. Since when was a T added to this word??
"ain't" instead of aren't. 'Nuff said.

Egad!

Those are some of the worst! Although in a post or an email I might use a silly variation like ain't just for effect....it's not part of my spoken lexicon.

I wish I had something funny to say, like the rest of you! heehee

You rock!
~T~

**wannaduacentury** · 10-26-2006, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by CyclChyk

Sort of OT but kind of not.......
My most annoying written word is "YOUR" when referring to "YOU ARE"..... I mean really, is YOU'RE so hard to comprehend?

Most hated spoken mis-words are numerous but top two:
"accrost" instead of accross. Since when was a T added to this word??
"ain't" instead of aren't. 'Nuff said.

LOL, Has anyone found "yonder" yet?? I haven't and I've been in the south all my life tee hee. libury is another when it should be Library, yes I work in one too. Jennifer

**SadieKate** · 10-26-2006, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by wannaduacentury

LOL, Has anyone found "yonder" yet??

Sure, you can wonder over yonder 'safternoon.

My Texas teacher grandmother was once asked one by of her students, "How do you spell 'safternoon?"

**Dianyla** · 10-26-2006, 10:57 AM

Here's a Portland area local problem that Kitsune and others will probably enjoy.

"McMinimum's" instead of McMenamin's, a local brewpub chain.

**chickwhorips** · 10-26-2006, 11:05 AM

when these threads start, i start to think i shouldn't post anymore. i'm really not good at spelling or grammer and half the time typing.

**wannaduacentury** · 10-26-2006, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by SadieKate

Sure, you can wonder over yonder 'safternoon.

My Texas teacher grandmother was once asked one by of her students, "How do you spell 'safternoon?"

I remember that one and Geetyet?(sp?) (Did you eat yet? my great uncle told me this one in NC)

AHMA (contraction). (southern slang)
Usage: "Ahma gonna sit rat cheer til foe the safnoon."

**snapdragen** · 10-26-2006, 11:49 AM

How about printner?

I pritner fell of my bar stool....

**Geonz** · 10-26-2006, 12:00 PM

Dear struggling spellers,

I can't speak for any of the other grinches, but since I teach people with dyslexia I have had to learn to channel my grammar grouchies.

To me there's a HUGE difference between anything typed as an ongoing dialogue and something that you're publishing or setting out to the public. That stuff deserves that ancient skill called proofreading. Also, if you can't spell, nowadays it's quite possibly because you were never taught, not because you held it in disdain.

So keep posting... and it doesn't matter what we think anyway. I happen to know that many people find my habits of dressing to violate all kinds of rules I just can't seem to figure out. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop wearing clothes

(or stop going out in public).

But actually, what am I doing on line... I'm supposed to be spending my spare work moments developing spelling-improvement software. I'm out of here

**mary9761** · 10-26-2006, 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by yellow

Mary, you are awesome. Between this and your "owed"...thanks for the chuckle!

I'm glad I brought a smile! BTW, I can't take credit for writing the OWED bit, I found it some time ago on the net and just had to keep it.

**Bad JuJu** · 10-26-2006, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by mary9761

I'm glad I brought a smile! BTW, I can't take credit for writing the OWED bit, I found it some time ago on the net and just had to keep it.

Awww, I thought you were a blossoming poet.

And here's another grammar matter that bugs me:
What's with writing the plural of words like "ghosts" and "priests" with no -s at the end? I've noticed this that last two or three semesters and it makes me tear my hair out (which is not to say "tare my hare out"

).

**SadieKate** · 10-26-2006, 08:22 AM

Oh, you mean more than one priest or ghost is "priest's" and "ghost's"?

**Eden** · 10-26-2006, 08:31 AM

From Craigslist this morning -

Free Large double pain aluminum window

hmmmmm, no wonder he really wants to get rid of it, single pain is bad enough....

**CR400** · 10-26-2006, 11:47 AM

Ok, I feel the need to add mine.

to
too
and two.

Oh, how often do I see the wrong word writt-en, it seems like people are always leaving off the second o. So maybe they should just use the word also-it replaces.

Ok, I have often fell to the pedal as I usually blank out in the spelling and write it with an e instead. Forgive me I'm actually bad at spelling.

Fine, now that I'm worried about all the careless grammar mistakes I make now, I'll leave. I love comma splices, hope I left a few.

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