Grumpy Grammar Grinch Grouses...

[Eden]

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....

[Bad JuJu]

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

No--I mean they write "ghost" when they mean "ghosts" or "priests" when they mean "priests," "scientist" when they mean "scientists"--jeez, it's enough to make me crazy!

[SadieKate]

BJJ, my post was a reference to our earlier rants about apostrophe abuse.

[wannaduacentury]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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."

[CR400]

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.

[snapdragen]

How about printner?

I pritner fell of my bar stool....

[Geonz]

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

[chickwhorips]

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

do you need someone to try that on? i'll be willing to be your willing victim.

[cherinyc]

snapdragon - i had to read your last post a couple times, then referred back to my traumatic move in 8th grade, from South Florida (basically New York) to North Florida (basically Georgia).

They pronounced it pert-near. "I pert-near fell out my chair." I can't even fathom where that comes from.
The 2 that confused me most were, "fixin to" "I'm fixin to go meet my ma"
and the usage of the word "learn" "Boy - I'm gonna learn you some manners".

Scary stuff.

[Dianyla]

They pronounced it pert-near. "I pert-near fell out my chair." I can't even fathom where that comes from.

I think it's from "I pretty near fell out" which could be rewritten as "I came close to falling out of my chair".

[cherinyc]

I think it's from "I pretty near fell out" which could be rewritten as "I came close to falling out of my chair".

OHHHH. Yeah I see it now. Pretty near. Thanks Dianyla - I've been wondering about that for a while now.