#502555 - Mon Nov 16 2009 09:39 PM
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One of the things that irritate me the most (besides all the words mentioned above) is when newspapers do not spell words correctly. In the paper yesterday I found the word "wait" when it should have been "weight." I firmly believe that spell check is always used -- what happened to proof reading? When I post on here, I always do a preview first, make any corrections and then post. ren, are you sure about definate? not defanite? Are you definite?  Actually, it quite irritates me!  And many thanks for the EnvElopE and stationEry tip! I cannot keep those two straight. Let's include principle/pricipal -- one is your "pal," the other is what one pays on a loan.
Edited by Jar (Mon Nov 16 2009 10:23 PM)
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#502557 - Mon Nov 16 2009 10:26 PM
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And by the way, I've been finding more and more homophones in books, too. That one really, REALLY aggravates me!
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#502558 - Tue Nov 17 2009 04:13 PM
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I must add maybe/may be. It could be that maybe I may be wrong about so many things! Either that or just brilliant.  I know I can, but may I? Don't get me started!
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#502559 - Wed Nov 18 2009 05:19 PM
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I keep seeing ect. written instead of etc.
To the best of my knowledge it is an abbreviation for Et Cetera.
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#502561 - Wed Nov 18 2009 06:37 PM
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"Basically "very slightly gets up my nose....
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#502562 - Wed Nov 18 2009 07:01 PM
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My mother said "That is a mute point" again, she won't listen to me when I tell her it's moot.
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#502563 - Wed Nov 18 2009 08:46 PM
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I loved reading the book by Lyn Truss: "Eats Shoots and Leaves".
The author is annoyed by all the things that have irritated previous posters... and many more.
Well worth a read !
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#502564 - Sat Nov 21 2009 11:20 AM
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That was a great read. The one that currently bothers me the most is having people write "Your welcome." As if they were giving me a welcome instead of telling me that "I am welcome to the assistance provided". Blech.
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#502565 - Sat Nov 21 2009 07:19 PM
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I teach a medical audiotyping course. Almost all of the above errors are dealt with in one of the chapters in the course book entitled "Homophones and other Troublesome Words". The trainees are supposed to read the book, then do a theory test (which tries to ensure that they HAVE read the book), before progressing to actually typing up some dictation and submitting their work for assessment.
Some of the work I get from them is appalling. In addition to the abovementioned errors, one that I frequently get which drives me insane is "thankyou" (as in "thank you very much for referring this patient"). Thank you is two words and yet the majority of would-be typists will type it as one word. I can't understand why.
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#502567 - Sun Nov 22 2009 12:50 AM
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Etc. is the abbreviation, not ect. It is the ect. which annoys me.
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#502568 - Sun Nov 22 2009 04:36 AM
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One of my husbands always wrote 'ect'! What a no brainer he was, he also wrote "my Angle" when he wrote to me. One thing I have never been is angular (angelic, yes.)
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#502570 - Sun Nov 22 2009 01:21 PM
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I was eating some "crispy baguette pieces" cracker-like things last night, and was reading the box... three typos in one little blurb! Apparently the baguette pieces are good to eat with "you favourite dips" and they used 'are' when it should have been 'is', and used 'is' when it should have been 'are'! (Or a word should have an 's' on the end, still, a grammatical mistake)
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#502571 - Sun Nov 22 2009 01:24 PM
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The receipt on my lunch today read "Where the food is awsome" printed at the bottom.
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#502572 - Sun Nov 22 2009 01:42 PM
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The spelling of a lot of British children is abysmal and I don't think it is helped by the US spellcheckers used on many forum sites. I get thrown myself now when I see a word underlined which I know is correct, typically many words where we have a double letter and in the US they have as single letter, I begin to doubt myself. They are going to end up using many American spellings and not realise it isn't British English.
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#502573 - Sun Nov 22 2009 02:05 PM
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That's one thing I like about the newer version of MS Word (when I got a new laptop, I was not pleased about having to switch to Vista and new Office programs and such) - it recognizes Canadian English, whereas I used to have the same problem about it underlying the non-American spellings.
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#502574 - Sun Nov 22 2009 03:15 PM
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The spelling of a lot of British children is abysmal....
I think you have hit the nail on the head Sue. Not just British children, but children here, too. At work last night I was in a situation where I could look at all the footballs (American) that people had signed by Dallas Cowboy players. Every single signature was not legible. I believe that bad handwriting and bad spelling go hand in hand. And it's not just children. Adults so very often cannot spell homophones, either. When I mentioned to one of the mothers last night that the players should have better handwriting, her response was, "Well if Doctors don't have to have good handwriting, then these guys shouldn't either!" Huh? Just because one cannot write (or spell) doesn't mean that the other shouldn't.
Sorry to be a thread napper, didn't mean to get off the subject of your/you're. In my opinion, I think some kids think if they write badly enough they won't get a word marked wrong on a spelling test.
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#502575 - Sun Nov 22 2009 07:58 PM
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At the dance competition yesterday there was a letter included in the program, which thanked all of the sponsors and such. I quote: Quote:
We thank all of the sponsors for their denotations
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We thank you for trussing us
Oh, how I would like to truss them. They deserve it.
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#502576 - Mon Nov 23 2009 01:47 AM
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Funny stuff, and I agree with all of it. A couple that stick in my craw that haven't been mentioned yet are the current apparently unstoppable fad of using "fun" as an adjective (sorry, funtrivia) and saying (and now even spelling) the word "our" as "are". "Fun" is NOT an adjective. There's no such thing as more fun, most fun, funner, or funnest. Therefore, you may not use such expressions as fun game, fun time, fun day. *GAH* "Fun" is a noun, like "joy." You wouldn't say, "This is a joy game." And this habit of making "our" a homophone with "are" instead of "hour" drives me up the wall, too. First time I heard it was for the tv show "Our House," which they insisted on calling "Are House." I've even seen it starting to show up in print now, people will type, "Are family is going on vacation next week."
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#502578 - Tue Nov 24 2009 09:48 PM
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Funny stuff, and I agree with all of it. A couple that stick in my craw that haven't been mentioned yet are the current apparently unstoppable fad of using "fun" as an adjective (sorry, funtrivia) and saying (and now even spelling) the word "our" as "are". "Fun" is NOT an adjective. There's no such thing as more fun, most fun, funner, or funnest. Therefore, you may not use such expressions as fun game, fun time, fun day. *GAH* "Fun" is a noun, like "joy." You wouldn't say, "This is a joy game." And this habit of making "our" a homophone with "are" instead of "hour" drives me up the wall, too. First time I heard it was for the tv show "Our House," which they insisted on calling "Are House." I've even seen it starting to show up in print now, people will type, "Are family is going on vacation next week."
HairyBear's statement that "fun" is not an adjective made me think about it. So it's incorrect to say "this was a fun day"? I went to the dictionary and under "fun" it says (among other things, of course):
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fun - adjective
[before noun]
enjoyable
There are lots of fun things to do here.
So "fun" is a noun but it's also an adjective.
Edited by minkpenny (Wed Nov 25 2009 10:39 AM)
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#502579 - Mon Nov 30 2009 04:26 AM
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That is how I learned it, but what it can't be is a comparative formed by with -ner or superlative with -nest.
Nevertheless, I do try to avoid using it as an adjective, and I say, "Playing that quiz was really a lot of fun" instead of "That was a really fun quiz to play" or "Much fun was had by all" instead of "A fun time was had by all."
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) for Et Cetera, which I've always heard means "and the rest."
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