people please.........

I don't think spell check is useful when it comes to a mistake like 'confirmation', because confirmation is a word! I wrote a thesis during my postgrad about multimodal literacy, and one of the arguments that came up in the literature was that computers and, more specifically, spell check, has made people struggle more with spelling. Even with a spell check it always pays to proof read.

Thinking about it: has no one ever written a post, read it through and noticed mistakes? Maybe some people just don't have the time to do that.

I'm just trying to see both sides here. As I said, I can get irritated by it, but there are often reasons mistakes are made; and if I picked up on every mistake the children in my classes make, they would never want to do any work for me. I also worry that those children who have had their spelling picked on at school (as in there being far too much emphasis on it), grow up to have issues around writing.
 
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. . . and should <u>have</u> not should <u>of</u>

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oh my GOD this annoys me so much! I instantly judge, I am ashamed to say as this is a real kicker.
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Likewise if I am out on a date and the man says "should of" (urgh, I even hate typing it) I correct him, and get annoyed if he repeats it, and often haven't gone back for a 2nd date!
 
Cue/que/queue

Generally people mean the first one but use one of the latter two. The problem is when 'wrong' words are used that also exist in their own right as English words. Then the spellchecker is useless!

My mother used to practically ground me (sorry, Americanism alert) for use of 'I got it off...' instead of 'I got it from...'.
But she was a teacher too (Whoops, grounded again. Never start a sentence with 'but' or 'and').
 
d_v, are you seriously telling me that you say 'bar..gain'? I certainly don't and I am certainly not common either. ETA: I am sat here saying 'bargain' over and over and over, and it still SOUNDS like 'bargen' almost, but definitely not 'bargin' or 'bar..gain'.

Everywhere in the country people have different dialects and say words differently. That doesn't make them common at all.

We can't all talk (we don't all want to talk) in RP. As I said, I am not making excuses: when I say the words, I cannot notice much of a difference in how they sound, but I do know how to spell them.
 
I agree spell checker makes people too lazy to proof read. I remember writing an essay on a Jane Austen novel for my English Lit coursework and writing the wrong type of 'heroine' throughout.... I got mocked for weeks by my big mean teacher
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It is all getting a bit posh for me now. Has anyone else been sat saying baulk and hawk and other things? I have
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I do pronounce them differently. Hard to explain but baulk starts sounding like ball and hawk starts sounding like a not nice name for someone who sleeps around ( i dare not spell it incase it is wrong)
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Yes, have to admit when people SAY 'should of' instead of 'should have', I do hate it. I think the issues with writing 'should of/would of/could of' come from people who say 'should've'... maybe?!

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yep agreed, and I have been told that I shouldn't use should've at all....Pah
 
It's just how the English language has evolved, isn't it? It doesn't make it wrong. The words we use today are very different to those used hundreds of years ago, and if we are around in another few hundred years, language will have changed vastly.

Of course baulk and hawk have a different onset, but I have always said it like 'bawk', and even seeing it written down I say 'bawk' because I consider the l to be silent. That doesn't mean I am correct. As I said, the English language continues to evolve and it's a mish-mash of different rules and origins.
 
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Everywhere in the country people have different dialects and say words differently. That doesn't make them common at all.


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pmsl. I realise that. I live in Scotland and noone speaks properly up here! they arent all common though. well, they mostly are but I know a few posher ones. the common ones cant be understood at all
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Is that today's lesson over then children?
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Puts down laptop to scuttle into the corner to put a pointy hat on which for some reason has a 'D' written on it....
 
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LOL. So people who say 'bargin' due to their dialects are not necessarily common. People who WRITE bargin, however....
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yep! common, common, common lol!

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<font color="green"> Shouldn't that be 'commin'?
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What really makes me shudder is 'I was sat / I am sat / I was stood' etc. I do admit to being a pedantic old cucumber though.
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Most posh Scots speak perfectly good English! However, if we were to try to write in broad Scots, no one would understand. While this would be correct in both spelling and grammar it would not be correct English.

Colloqualisms and slangisms are ruining the English language.
 
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Colloqualisms and slangisms are ruining the English language.

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Or are they just changing it?
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Besides, it doesn't matter how annoying bad spelling and grammar are to some people, they're not against the rules so really, apart from moaning, there's nothing anyone can do about it. Maybe someone could start teaching forum english lessons and give out lots of homework.
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Maybe someone could start teaching forum english lessons and give out lots of homework.
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That sounds like a good idea KVS, however judging by some of the "writings" on this thread, it could be daunting for some people to figure out which person to learn (correct English) from.
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I admit to having a little chuckle more than once on this thread - thanks DV
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Most posh Scots speak perfectly good English!



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nah, they just think that they do
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even the posh ones will say 'does that want washed?', or 'that wants washed'.

not that I live with a posh one, he's a weegie poor thing.
 
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