It's CONFORMATION not CONFIRMATION. (Pedantic thread)

The conformation/confirmation thing gets me too as do:

Laminitus
Artheritus
Hayledge
Brought/bought
uphauled

I could go on but I am winding myself up now :mad:
 
Ooooh boy - now you've done it.

It's more/less THAN not THEN
YOUR spelling is appalling . . . YOU'RE in need of some grammar lessons
Could HAVE, not OF
You take a different TACK, not TACT

I'm afraid I'm known in our house as a bit of a spelling/grammar nazi . . . I do understand that some people are dyslexic so can't help the poor spelling, but poor grammar really irritates me (and, yes, there are far more serious things in the world to worry about than poor grammer ;)).

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Wagtail said:
I'm actually a hopeless speller (very slightly dyslexic) but there are some spelling mistakes that get made so often they begin to irk me.
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Sadly 99% of the time I do not believe the use of confirmation instead of conformation is down to spelling errors – its bloody ignorance pure and simple!:cool:

I also agree with reigns – this seems to be becoming more and more popular on here at the moment and it gets right up my left nostril I can tell you :D
 
Pee pol duz wot they likes theze dayz and that seems 2 inkclude spellin anyfink the wayz u want!

So If eye want 2 ryde in a menage on an orse I brought recently ( even tho it as very bad confirmation ) your not going to stop me! lol
 
Ah, so many to choose from! It's or its done wrongly really winds me up and I love the people who use organization in one sentence and then organisation in the next! Where's the consitency???

The various there,their, they're drive me nuts as does could of instead of could have, oh and how many royal ponies are we seeing on here lately with their reigns???? What are they reigning over is what I'd like to know.

Seem to vaguely remember a saying about grammar too... bear with me (oops there's another.. bare with me *shakes head wildly*)

"You were helping your Uncle Jack, off a horse." as opposed to "you were helping your uncle jack off a horse" I'm sure that's probably not it as it was when I saw it, but it's still amusing lol!!!
 
Goldenstar said:
And I awful at typing because we never learnt at school because I am so old we wrote with fountain pens and ink at school .
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We had typing lessons, as an extra curricular subject one lunch hour a week, with those Godawful old fashioned sit up and beg machines. Does anyone use (or even possess) a typewriter nowadays?

All girls at my school were advised to become Secretaries (hey, we had shorthand lessons, Pitman, I hate you) so that we would have a job between school, getting married and becoming a Mrs Beeton clone!
 
Enfys said:
We had typing lessons, as an extra curricular subject one lunch hour a week, with those Godawful old fashioned sit up and beg machines. Does anyone use (or even possess) a typewriter nowadays?

All girls at my school were advised to become Secretaries (hey, we had shorthand lessons, Pitman, I hate you) so that we would have a job between school, getting married and becoming a Mrs Beeton clone!
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Yes I it was suggested to me When i left school I might like to do a typing / shorthand course to have something to fall back if I did not want to stay with the horses thing I thought not likely and bolted.
 
Enfys said:
I quite like 'brewed' mare myself.

Not grammar related really, but why is it unacceptable to refer to a horse as 'it' ?
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Interestingly, The Daily Telegraph NEVER refers to animals as he or she, him or her. It's always it or its. It makes me furious. Animals do have gender.

One of my pet hates is the use of off for of and of for off. From where does that come? And brought/bought?????? Why the confusion? While we're at it, aloud for allowed? That for who: as in "the people that went to the show." No, "the people WHO went to the show."
 
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