Alfa-alfa... alpha... no, it's AL-FAL-FA!

Of instead of have
Bought instead of brought
Etc

Big bug bears for me too.

Can't find the ad now, but on ebay recently someone was selling a 'chester draws' !
 
Can I just say after a horrific day this thread has made me smile so thanks for that :) (mainly the feed stories as I can't spell either)
 
Irishcobs said:
My pet hate is when I ask for Spillers horse and pony nuts to then get asked if I mean cubes. While I understand they are reading what it says on the screen and yes they are Spillers horse and pony cubes (don't get me started on the fact they aren't cubes so therefore should actually be called nuts) surely a little bit of common sense would tell them that nuts and cubes are actually the same thing?! Maybe not.
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Well, if we're being pedantic, they're not really nuts either. They're pellets :p
 
Lego said:
It even says on the bag that the feed contains alfalfa - I keep correcting/pretending to not understand when people at my yard talk about 'alfa alfa' or 'alfa-a'... Yes there is an alfa-a...but it is a brand not the actual contents.
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Calling something by its brand name isn't necessarily a bad thing, in the same way people feed 'blue chip' rather than stating the full and complete name. Pronouncing a word wrong or indeed spelling it wrong is one thing which bugs me too. However, people using brand names isn't a crime surely?

No different to when someone says they're wearing their Hunters or their Dubarrys. Technically they're wearing wellington boots or leather shooting boots but instead using the brand name... Is that wrong? It's no different to the above.
 
little_critter said:
Are you ready with the smelling salts?......
BROUGHT!
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PingPongPony said:
You have 'bought' a horse, you have not 'brought' a horse,
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Boxers said:
Bought instead of brought
Etc
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ARRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!

*breathes*

This one drives me insane! I often have to click off a thread I am reading when the OP has said this, as all I think of is them going to the shop to "bry" some milk... :confused::confused::confused:

Do they really say bry? :confused: If not, then why say brought? :confused:

Sometimes the spelling mistakes are funny as you can tell they are spelling the word the way they say it - can even imagine the accent at times!

However.. do they actually say "I brought some new shoes" :confused:

(I dont mind to much other mistakes as my spelling and grammar aren't perfect, but this one is crazy!)
 
teapot said:
Calling something by its brand name isn't necessarily a bad thing, in the same way people feed 'blue chip' rather than stating the full and complete name. Pronouncing a word wrong or indeed spelling it wrong is one thing which bugs me too. However, people using brand names isn't a crime surely?

No different to when someone says they're wearing their Hunters or their Dubarrys. Technically they're wearing wellington boots or leather shooting boots but instead using the brand name... Is that wrong? It's no different to the above.
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Sometimes a brand name becomes a generic word. When someone says they were using a hoover, or hoovering, they're not necessarily using a machine with that brand name!
 
FionaM12 said:
Sometimes a brand name becomes a generic word. When someone says they were using a hoover, or hoovering, they're not necessarily using a machine with that brand name!
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No true, but I think most people when talking about alfalfa/alfa a/alfa alfa (never heard that one before) are probably talking about the same thing...

Fair enough to make a point if someone says alfa a when they're actually feeding nuts (if anyone's that idiotic to confuse the two) and yes it must be annoying when working in a feed store trying to work out what someone wants. Rest of the time - does it really matter?
 
teapot said:
No true, but I think most people when talking about alfalfa/alfa a/alfa alfa (never heard that one before) are probably talking about the same thing...

Fair enough to make a point if someone says alfa a when they're actually feeding nuts (if anyone's that idiotic to confuse the two) and yes it must be annoying when working in a feed store trying to work out what someone wants. Rest of the time - does it really matter?
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Well actually you can get alfalfa nuts/cubes/pellets.

Personally I call them alfalfa pellets as that is what they are. That is also what dengie themselves call them.

The company. No, I haven't misspelt dengue fever.
 
tallyhohoho! said:
Oh, I got an advert on email the other day... "Three colly birds"... Actually, it's "FOUR CALLING birds" ... THREE FRENCH HENS.
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I hate to have to correct you on this but the use of "colly birds" actually preceeds "calling birds" by 2 centuries. The earliest extant written versions, going back to the 18th century (but probably known well before that) use "colly birds" or "colley birds" but "calling birds" only appears in the 20th century and is thought to be an American variant.

Incidentally a "colly" bird (in various spellings) is an old name for a blackbird.

There is also a interpretation of the song which attributes "secret" religious significance to the gifts, supposedly due to the persecution of Roman Catholics in the reign of Henry VIII, but the earliest version of it actually only appeared in the 1990s!
 
Yule Mule said:
At least "brung" wasn't mentioned.... :D
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"Brung" is a difficult one. It comes from the Old English "brungen". The OED and various American dictionaries describe it as a dialect word and it is in common parlance in parts of the USA. However, it is more or less obsolete in "good" or educated English.


(:eek:You can take the woman out of English teaching but you can't take English teaching out of the woman)
 
I hate to tell you this and some of you may need to sit down but they actually teach "should of" instead of "should have" in schools now. Makes me want to home educate my kids!
 
1. The "grocer's apostrophe"

2. "Less" when they mean "fewer" - blunt instument pitched at the radio when used sloppily by supposedly intelligent and well-educated presenters on the Today Programme

3. Confusion between "borrow" and "lend". I seem to have spent the whole of my teaching career correcting this one ("Can I lend a pen, Miss?" "To whom do you wish to lend it?")

Having taught all round the country, I don't have a problem with dialogue per se but I do hate sloppy use of English.
 
Boxers said:
Can't find the ad now, but on ebay recently someone was selling a 'chester draws' !
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Probably a relative of someone here who was selling a cabinet in the style of Chip and Dale. :D It is such a shame that they changed the person who took the phone ads, they were an unfailing treat every week, but that is my all time favorite.

I probably annoy loads of people here, as my signature line says I am both dyslexic, now in 3 languages, Canadian, American and Proper English, the Queens variety.

My pet hates from out local online sales, well to roll them together, the ultimate ad would read

For sale Philly Colt

I am selling my philly colt through lack of time, she lounges well, stands good for the ferrier and has great confirmation.

She has been running with my other colt so she prolly could be preggo, two for one deal.



Aggggggggghhhhhhh, screw the diet, I'm going back to the chocolate vodka thread, I need one now.
 
Irishcobs said:
My pet hate is when I ask for Spillers horse and pony nuts to then get asked if I mean cubes. While I understand they are reading what it says on the screen and yes they are Spillers horse and pony cubes (don't get me started on the fact they aren't cubes so therefore should actually be called nuts) surely a little bit of common sense would tell them that nuts and cubes are actually the same thing?! Maybe not.
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How about Spillers Horse and Pony cylinders ???

Don't get me started on the use of hayledge for haylage....
 
Hot2Trot said:
I hate to tell you this and some of you may need to sit down but they actually teach "should of" instead of "should have" in schools now. Makes me want to home educate my kids!
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Not in any school I've ever taught in. But it isn't a mistake that is made in Yorkshire, on the whole. I first noticed it when staying with friends in Wiltshire, many years ago. The one that drives me mad is the confusion between 'taught' and 'learned', which is a regional thing as well but relatively common in this region.
 
There are too many kinds of alfa product on the market though (although I do know what alfalfa is!). But last time I was in the feed store I spent so long trying to pronounce Alfa A Oil that it completely slipped my mind that I didn't actually even want that, I wanted Alfa Beet :( I was too embarrassed to change my order and had to come back later >.<
 
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