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[Lurcherlad2]

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Driven indoors by the Very Loud birthday celebration next door. Sounds like the entire Brazilian community in the country has come.
Hope it's not going to continue into tomorrow!!

We had to put up with a 5 day (12 hours a day) wedding a few doors down a couple of years ago ….

 

[Dibbythedog]

Our area is like a building site now. So many houses being done up and extended. Next door totally gutted , dust and noise every day except Sunday . Still not finished though its been 8 months. Found out Saturday, the owner of the other side attached to it is selling up and next owner trying to get planning permission for it to be turned into two flats.

 

[arealhuman]

"Of" being used instead of "'ve". For example, "I might of heard about that", instead of "I might've heard about that".

 

[Rona]

"Of" being used instead of "'ve". For example, "I might of heard about that", instead of "I might've heard about that".

Or even I might have heard about that

 

[Rona]

I seem to have a Bluebottle flying in the back door, which I then have to let out the front window, then it happens again and again and again.
Do you think it's having a laugh?

 

[SuzyJay]

I seem to have a Bluebottle flying in the back door, which I then have to let out the front window, then it happens again and again and again.
Do you think it's having a laugh?

It's trying to wind you up!
Geddit?

 

[SuzyJay]

"Of" being used instead of "'ve". For example, "I might of heard about that", instead of "I might've heard about that".

Yes,yes.yes!

 

[JudyN]

strawberry's
coffee's
tea's
pizza's

 

[SuzyJay]

strawberry's
coffee's
tea's
pizza's

Fly's.

 

[JudyN]

Though also... people who correct others' grammar/syntax/spelling in contexts like social media. Someone asking, 'My dog might of eaten two bar's of chocolate,' does not need to be told that it should be 'might have' and 'bars'. And, of course, not everyone is able to access a decent education, many people are dyslexic or have other difficulties, and that should never be held against us. (This absolutely isn't aimed at anyone on this forum - typically it crops up on FaceBook.)

 

[Rona]

One of my bugbears.
My OH is dyslexic, and I'm uneducated. Left school at 14

 

[ForestWomble]

One of my bugbears.
My OH is dyslexic, and I'm uneducated. Left school at 14

I left school at 14 too, but that's still 9 years of education (or however long you had), personally I wouldn't call that uneducated (or maybe I'm in denial)

 

[O2.0]

strawberry's
coffee's
tea's
pizza's

This makes my eye twitch.

And just like you it also annoys me when some snot corrects some innocent person's grammar or spelling or typo in an inappropriate context (which let's face it, unless you're their editor, all contexts are inappropriate.)
Having said that, I will be the first to return the favor (sorry favoUr) should said snot slip up and make a mistake themselves. Because I'm petty like that. This is the petty thread right?

 

[JudyN]

Having said that, I will be the first to return the favor (sorry favoUr)

Which reminds me... British people who claim that Americans spell everything wrong. Apart from anything else, some US spellings crossed the Atlantic in the Mayflower and stayed the same, whereas UK spellings changed down the years. So which is 'more right'?

I have a special skill - I can edit in both UK and US English. Though it's a bit of a PITA in an edited book where different chapters use different conventions (also occasionally Australian and Canadian, with really does get me reaching for style guides) - it's so much easier when you can check for consistency across the whole book.

 

[O2.0]

I cannot spell to save my life. And much of my job involves writing - in English! I actually confused myself the other day trying to spell "which" because it looked weird when I wrote it out by hand and I started questioning whether it started with wh or w. I may or may not have just googled the correct spelling of whether.
I blame it on being multilingual, going to both British and American schools while living in Spanish-speaking countries. Oh, Spanish I can spell no problem. English and French are just corrupt languages as far as I'm concerned. They make no sense.

Spell-check is one of the best inventions ever as far as I'm concerned! And yet my search history is still full of random words I've searched because I can't figure out how to spell them and not even spell-check knows what the heck I'm talking about.

 

[magpi]

I think I'm really thick. I never know when to use the word affect or effect. I've googled it and I'm still clueless.

 

[O2.0]

I think I'm really thick. I never know when to use the word affect or effect. I've googled it and I'm still clueless.

Now that one I do know! Go figure!
Effect is the result, affect is what led to the result.

I think my schooling affected my spelling.
The effect of my unusual schooling was that I cannot spell.