..to be disappointed that there's a grammatical error on the box of an M&S educational toy?

[earthpixie]

"Build the British Isles and all it's famous places"

sigh

I would say Dos and don'ts. Absolutely no reason for it to be Do's.
Although it's a colloquolism (sp?) so I'd probably not use it in a formal setting

I teach grammar. I teach it very explicitly.

And I don't like "limo's". No-one thinks "pianos" or "discos" would be pronounced "pianoss" or "discoss", do they? :)

very good point

Why is it 'potatoes' and 'tomatoes' but not 'pianoes' though? (Leaving out limo and disco as they're abbreviations)

Piano is an abbreviation too - pianoforte

more like a poor chinese factory worker who puts the wrong letters on to relieve the boredom!

yes, I realised that after I'd hit Post, came back to correct myself

I don't care. It's an error. So what?

I love this thread!

As an aside I discovered recently that both 'learnt' and 'learned' are grammatically correct, although 'learnt' is more typically an english form and 'learned' an american one. Lesson learnt!

deviladvocate

I love this thread!

As an aside I discovered recently that both 'learnt' and 'learned' are grammatically correct, although 'learnt' is more typically an english form and 'learned' an american one. Lesson learnt!

Thanks for that, despite not living there for YEARS, I do occasionally have the habit of still using words that I think to be true English, only to realise from the puzzled looks on faces, that they are not, but old Geordie dialect (spelk, clarts, being examples)

I always use learnt, sounds similar to learned, so when I get the nasty red line under "learnt" I was very puzzled & presumed it to be dialect ...weird though, as my spell check is set on UK English

Does you spellcheck also object to the similarly correct 'spelt' and insist on 'spelled'?

yes it does gimmethegnome ....so much for a UK English spell check eh?