Petty things that have put you off a book

[RosieLemonade]

I have just finished a book based in 2017. Teenagers called Tim, Paul and Sarah. It really took me out of it.
Anyone been put off a book for a petty reason?

Shined is fine as a past participle if the verb is being used transitively.

@KeflavikAirport - ooh, that's interesting. Could you please give an example? I love learning new stuff & quirks of language and I admit 'shined' grates on me. If I can fix an example in my head it'll make more sense, if you get what I mean?

Well, like the one above. If there’s a direct object. So the sun shone brightly but he shined the plate until it gleamed. If shins is a synonym of polish.

Ah ok. Thank you. I think what PP might mean - and have seen myself - is things like 'he shined his flashlight around the room / the sun shined brightly that morning'.

Exactly @iklboo ! They use shined for everything. It's like the word shone doesn't exist. For some reason there seems to be lots of examples in every book I read lately, and it just annoys me

I looked the shined / shone thing up and apparently the difference is gradually dying out. He shined a torch sounds ok to me because it’s transitive.

I know teenagers called Tim and Sarah and have a teenager called Paul.

@KeflavikAirport

I looked the shined / shone thing up and apparently the difference is gradually dying out. He shined a torch sounds ok to me because it’s transitive.

There was an advert on the radio recently for a show about Muhammed Ali, and they kept playing a quote along these lines which sounded totally wrong. I think (but could be mistaken) that the person said "he forsaked everything to do xxxx' and it really grated. Something like that anyway.

I hate"burglarized" instead of"burgled". I don't know if it's American English or just crap English but it annoys me!

There’s a film with High Grant in it and he wistfully remarks to his American costar that he grew up on 112nd St, Chelsea. So bloody jarring I’ve no idea why he wouldn’t pipe up and explain we don’t do street names that way here...

Also in Casualty a character said she qualified as a Dr from Exeter in 1996. SD was in their first ever cohort of Drs graduating in 2009!

@CrumpetsForAll

There’s a film with High Grant in it and he wistfully remarks to his American costar that he grew up on 112nd St, Chelsea. So bloody jarring I’ve no idea why he wouldn’t pipe up and explain we don’t do street names that way here...

Also in Casualty a character said she qualified as a Dr from Exeter in 1996. SD was in their first ever cohort of Drs graduating in 2009!

Chelsea New York?

"Chelsea New York?"

Nowhere near 112nd Street

I’ve recently started American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings. It’s excellent so far but OH NO she has just committed a terrible sin twice in the same chapter: “her feet padded across the bedroom floor.”

Down with feet padding.

Audiobook of one of Doreen Tovey's cat books jarred on me because otherwise lovely narrator pronounced Andromache as "Andromash"!

@AllTheWorldIsGreen no it was supposed to be in London

Well, that's interesting. I have just googled The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time and the dog in question is definitely a poodle. There are a number of different covers for this title and i think the one I had in mind was the 2004 edition which shows a car at the top and picture of a dog with pointy ears at the bottom. Later cover illustrations are definitely poodle-like. Now I know the breed I shall read the book.

So bloody jarring I’ve no idea why he wouldn’t pipe up and explain we don’t do street names that way here...

There are loads of things like that, and I can never understand why the actor doesn't mention it.

Case in point: Mary Poppins — set in London, majority British cast. Why did nobody mention that robins don't look like that in England?

(Sorry, slight derail!)

How do you pronounce 112nd? Wouldn’t it be 112th or am I missing something 😳

@hagsrus0

Audiobook of one of Doreen Tovey's cat books jarred on me because otherwise lovely narrator pronounced Andromache as "Andromash"!

Oh, I love Doreen Tovey's books! We actually visited her twice, when we were camping near Cheddar.I think she had Rama at the time.

Was thoroughly enjoying a book where one of the characters drove to Cornwall. They 'left the motorway at Truro and joined the dual carriageway' no they didn't. The motorway ends at Exeter. There are no motorways in Cornwall. The barest glance at a map would have told them that, it put me right off the whole book.

Also, we had to read to kill a mockingbird at school. I have a fish allergy and the books must have been bound with fish glue, they all stunk to high heaven - I couldn't bear to be near them and still have absolutely no interest in reading it.

@SingToTheSky

How do you pronounce 112nd? Wouldn’t it be 112th or am I missing something 😳

I was about to ask this!

Oh I mean 112th!

@hagsrus0

"Chelsea New York?"

Nowhere near 112nd Street

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Posted unedited too soon. Meant to say the full address, almost good enough. 112 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY