'Would of' is a phrase with no meaning whatsoever

[antlerqueen]

Fully expecting a flaming or being accused of being a grammar nazi (i am a bit), but lately i see that phrase everywhere (a lot of the times on here).

would of - (of what? where? huh?)

It's would have. Just needed to get that off my chest :)

And am not even going to say a thing about 'could care less' or 'alot'... :D

Is using 'borrow' instead of 'lend' a new thing? I have heard it a lot recently, has it taken over from 'learn' instead of 'teach'?

I'm not sure what you problem is OP... could you be more pacific?

Using 'learn' for 'teach' actually does have a valid Anglo Saxon origin.

Lady thumb, it would be from a friend not off of. Flip me, boy do I hate off of......................

@Shouty, that post is either the funniest thing I've read, or it's unintentional. Either way, hysterical.

OMG. Did I just do the old Oxford comma one-two?

Shit. Majorly for it now.

I agree with Op I hate 'of' in that context-there is every excuse for ignorance and misunderstanding but none for sloppiness.

I am so depressed by the number of my teacher friends who post on FB: "Your terrible!" and other similar phrases. What hope is there for today's children?

I can see I will have to do some remedial work with DD this year, as her teacher doesn't know an apostrophe from her arsehole.

yeah.

All teachers are fucking scum. You're so right about that.

Mind you. Fuck the number of "insert other people" who lecture others about what they do. Still, at least they're not educating other peoples' children, so really should know better, eh?

Fucking teachers. Bastards. Responsible for everything rolls eyes and hits hide

haha! my DH would love this thread, he is a total Nazi. He also hates it when people pronounce "failure" in what he deems the wrong way. He says it should be "fail-your" not "fail-ee-your". He can barely watch the apprentice without having a big hissy fit as someone is bound to say it "wrong"!

Incorrect use of

• Their/There/They're
• Your/You're

is very annoying, but that is nothing compared with

• using apostrophes in plurals (signboard in the town where my parents live has the following "best sausage's in town")

• the incorrect use of "less" where "fewer" should be used. News presenters do this all the time and I have to be restrained from hurling the remote through the television.

Oy! I'm a teacher!

Oh and it's people's.

LOL@Euphemia.

So am I!

But I'm posting after two glasses of lunchtime wine, so bit pissed and aggressive. Sorry. Genuinely.

Lunchtime wine.

I'm trying to make myself get off the sofa and do something: I need to pick DD up from school in an hour so it's hardly worth it, is it?

I start a new supply job at the end of next week, so this is my holiday. I'll need to fit some lunchtime wine in one day ...

The Official Pedants' Guide now accepts the greengrocer's apostrophe in a mildly patronising manner, as long as it is a handwritten sign. All printed signage is available for criticism and contempt.
If you wish to be a true pedant then you will not shop in a supermarket which has a checkout for '10 items or less'.
Pedantic teachers should will carry a red marker pen and circle spelling or grammar errors on colleagues' displays.

LosingMyID - I'll take that as a compliment. :)

Anyhoo, I was only aksing.

AND I shall join in a bit, I have a really annoying friend on facebook who refuses to spell things right (or just can't? I'm not sure)- the most annoying being "Carnt", even though I regularly tell him it has no "r" in, "knoe", "challange" (he did that one 3 times in a "roe"). I think he is just doing it to annoy me now.

VictorianIce I covered a P2 class last year, covering the 0.3 of the week when the Probationer teacher was out of class. I used to correct her wall displays and information she had left on the board for me. I bet she loved me!

Best misuse of an apostrophe I ever saw 'strawberrie's'.

While we're on the subject, can I add that it is -"ITIS" and not -"ITUS", as in arthritis, appendicitis, cellulitis and PFBitis*.

*Which makes no sense anyway, unless your PFB is actually inflamed, in which case you should see your GP.

I do like that, Euphemia, I wonder if she learnt anything from you
I popped into another teacher's class once to point out that the title on the board wasn't grammatically correct. I don't think he minded too much, and I'm sure his class was grateful for the intervention.

I remember Gladiators was on tele, John Fashanu always used to announce one Gladiator as

"The (pronounced 'thu') AWESOME Shadow!!"

Vue Me: "It's thEE awesome, you prick!!!"

'Strawberrie's' is truly amazing (that's truly with no 'e')

'Seens' instead of 'seeing as'. 'Seens'?

Then there's the halfwitted sports broadcasters who say atherlete in three syllables.

What's the chance of persuading the BBC and Sky that it would be well if each and every sports reporter learnt the correct pronunciation of each and every competitor at the Ghastly Games and used it?

No, I thought not.

DD's school has an excellent reputation locally, and I'm very happy with it, but one or two howlers made me wonder!

In P3 one of DD's spelling words was "sarcophogus". I wrote in her homework diary that it should be sarcophagus and according to DD the teacher said "No, no, I'm sure I'm right," looked it up in the dictionary and had the class amend it in their spelling books.

I was helping out in P6 one time and the teacher had written on the board that the largest bone in the human body is the fermur.

I know these are not words children need often, but it makes you wonder ...