My name is CurlewKate and I am a recovering pedant….

[CurlewKate]

After 30 years as an active pedant, I am now trying VERY hard always to look at what people obviously mean, and not the way they express it. Not everyone has been taught about apostrophes.

But for the love of GOD- please stop saying “stag doo” “birthday doo”. Any other “doo”! Where did that come from?

🙄🙄🙄

I think you’ve fallen off the wagon.

I’ve never been off it so can’t blame you.

Also, I’m 40 and was taught about apostrophes at school - everyone has been taught, just some people live these lovely lives where a your in place of a you’re doesn’t send them into a rage. I’m jealous of them TBH!

I hope you are having sootable ferapy for your pendantry affliction.

"This really should be in Pedants' Corner," she said pedantically.

I would assume. People read less.

As I sit here repeating phrases containing 'to' (in my fairly 'standard' accent), is it not something about stressed and unstressed syllables and the position of one's lips/teeth in forming them? And partly that If one stresses 'to' in 'I'm going to the zoo', it gives 'to' huge prominence in the sentence?

Oh the irony, your Grammar is shocking 😲 😂

As opposed to the composer😂 That would explain why I also confused too.

Says the inappropriate capitaliser 😁

... to the left of an illuminated Live, Love, Laugh sign, presumably?

I could be a very intelligent pigeon sitting here writing this to you 😀.

Its an old song i heard whilst growing up (scotland).

That reminds me of the woman in home alone with all the pigeons 🤣.

Haha, you beat me to this! Plenty of other languages available for those who want to capitalise nouns as a matter of course (she says, only being able to name one - German - with any certainty)

Some time ago there was a post on here that used "hendo" (all one word) in the title. I always think of them as hendos now.

Having a bad week? I'm pretty certain the post you're replying to was a joke.

Lots of words don't exist except in teens speak and then poof! they've been added to the dictionary. I'm gonna vote for doo and doo's to be added.

You shouldn't be such a snoob 😥

🤓

Mit freundlichen Grüßen…

I thought that was Yorkshire slang for Henderson's Relish?
Side note of pedantry: I used to drive past the factory, which had a notice on the front saying that they'd been making Hendo's for "Over a 100 years".
Used to drive me mad.

Actually, cancel all that. I tried again and realised they do sound different. I would say "I'm going ta go to the zoo" where the a in ta is very short.

"I would of brought a vale for your hen doo but the shop didn't have any."

Vales I can get past, the rest not so much.

Fair do(o)s !!

I like 'doo' it sounds more fun than 'do'

Don't they make hen doo into fertiliser?

Yay! A poster after my own heart.

For me, it's et cetera abbreviated wrongly grinds my gears, wanted to correct somebody on a post recently with the post was so sad that I thought it wouldn't land well
On a beach, bright sunlight if none of this makes sense

I’m a fully paid up grumpy old pedant, but I’ve never seen ‘hen doo’.

How do you feel about the usual hen do plural, though, OP? Would you allow the unlawful apostrophe in ‘hen do’s’ or does ‘hen dos’ feel acceptable even though it looks weird? (It does to me, anyway.)