It's CONFORMATION not CONFIRMATION. (Pedantic thread)

biccie1 said:
As previously said bought/brought and learnt/taught are annoying - "that'll learn 'em"

But my latest annoyance is to use "use" to describe a group of people being spoken to. As in "use lot is norty" or "I hate use".
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I had always presumed it would be spelled "youse" or "yous"?

Similarly irritating is "if our you" instead of "if I were you".

Which reminds me, when I was little I thought there was a letter of the alphabet pronounced "elemena" - it was the letter which came after k and before p.....

Oh and I also thought that the person who fixed things was really called "Jim'll".
 
It makes my heart sing to know I'm not alone in being a proud member of the grammar police.

If anyone needs a translation, that means:
It like meks my Hart sign too no that im not like along in been a prowed member off the like grammer poleece.

There are so many examples on here that I agree with that I've spent the last hour nodding furiously at my screen! Did I mention that I don't like the random use of the word "like"...
 
I have a good friend from South London who INSISTS on writing everything in a Sarf London accent. Drives me insane!

That and overuse of exclamation marks, ditto passive tense and people who can't correctly use less than and fewer.


Meh!!!! Seems one has less issues than is thought!!!
 
Sacroids, exited for excited and kimberwick... and all of the above too, actually!

I used to work as receptionist in a Urology Suite and this dear little old man once arrived at my desk and told me he was here for his "prostate autopsy"! :D
 
cronkmooar said:
Oh you are so right

I need to get off this thread - I'm getting blood pressure (and becoming paranoid that I might make a typo:D)
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We all have blood pressure, or we would be dead! Did you mean you are getting HIGH blood pressure (hypertension) or low blood pressure (hypotension)?
 
Another one is "very unique" or degrees of unique - there's a clue in the etymology : "uni"= one, so a thing is either unique or it isn't! Otherwise it's just degrees of rare.

The whole family screams "It's stadia not stadiums, you moron!" - legacy of five years of Latin with the formidable Miss Thompson:D
 
From another thread:

"my friend needs advice and whether she is entitled for her money to be given back
my friend has a gelding who has been turned away due to back issues , these have been rectified and now is back to full health , problem is woman brought it for her daughter who know thinks horse may be a little to much for her , he was booked in for april to be re backed and when returned will be sold but someone has offered to buy him now and will re back him there selfs
my friend has told the woman this who he is booked in with and now woman refuses to refund money as she said she has keeped stable for him , but surely the stable would nt be held till the end of next month .
anyway do you think its right for woman to pay back the money or is it a loss"


!!!!!!
 
"And then she turned around and said..."

Why are people always turning around to say things? Whenever someone says something like this, I just imagine people spinning around trying to talk to each other.
 
Shilasdair said:
At work, I have found myself screaming 'fewer, damn you!' at colleagues who talk about 'less students'.
S :D
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This is my big time pet hate! I had this drummed into my by my mother and automatically correct it - although it is rather irritating going into Tesco and seeing "10 items or less". Drives me bonkers.

For others, please refer to my signature :)
 
Has anyone noticed how racehorses in the US seem to require chips removed from their ankles? :eek: Can anyone confirm that horse conformation over there is the same as over here as I assume they mean fetlocks or do they?:confused:
Joking aside, I have a friend who teaches 16 to 18 year olds and she said that its frightening how many of them have got to that age and are not capable of reading or writing an essay. They use abbreviations for texting and do not actually know how to spell or recognise the full version.:(
 
16 pages and nobody's mentioned trailor!!

All of the above, although Laminitus always gets me.
I had to gently correct a friend who kept writing about things being a knightmare.

Another from an advert that I kept seeing on FB was Belgium Warmblood.
 
TBB said:
Has anyone noticed how racehorses in the US seem to require chips removed from their ankles? :eek: Can anyone confirm that horse conformation over there is the same as over here as I assume they mean fetlocks or do they?:confused:
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:D Colloquial terminology, that's all.;)

Even my Vet calls them ankles, he knows that I know what he means, no harm done. How many people say rump or quarters as opposed to backside, bum, arse, behind etc.? Same thing.

Hmmm, should there be a full stop at the end of etc. in addition to the question mark?

Should there be a space between the end of a sentence and the beginning of a new one?

And, should I use and at the start of a sentence?
 
I'll get off OF my high horse, at this this moment in time (as opposed to some other moment?) and rage about the very worst, which seems to have not made it onto this thread..... DEFINITELY!

Not definAtely
Not DEFIANTLY

We can all do things defiantly, and may wish to express our determination in that way, but what happened to DEFINITELY? :eek:

And now I'm "bored of" :rolleyes: my own pedantry.
YOUR all too fussy, defiantly :D:D:D and should concentrate more on that ever-popular equestrian activity ... the menage (a trois?) :eek:
 
amandap said:
I've read 'bored of' something so often I no longer know if it's incorrect. Can some one confirm one way or the other please?

ps.My spelling isn't good myself but hopefully improved since I got a decent spell check on the browser.
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It's 'bored by', I thought...but perhaps 'bored of' is correct as well these days?

Really love this thread, but I am amazed that no-one has mentioned the fact that their horse is never phased by tractors.

Also, I didn't brought a horse, I bort it!

:D
 
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