to want to scream "its may have, not may of"

[ssd]

sorry am not picking on anyone but keep reading this lately on here

please stop saying "may of" people

YANBU at all. I can cope with typos, I can cope with erroneous apostrophies, but "of" instead of "have", does my head in!!

Strange to see your pedantry doesn't extend to correctly placed apostrophes...

The bastardisation of 've into of does irritate me too though actually.

I also wonder if it is a generational thing. I am in my 40's and it only seems to be a problem with people much younger.

I am trying to find fault with your post, onehand, so I can come back at you with something witty

but I can't

bugger

Yanbu. It sets off my judgey klaxon. The klaxon alerts those nearby that the judgey pants of doom are about to be adjusted upwards.

Yes it is annoying but it is really rather a poor show to start a thread about it, some of you are being unnecessarily rude.

Sometimes it just needs to be said.

I sit on my hands a lot on here lately, this thread is a relief!

To be fair, I think it was thepeoplesprincess (I guess there are no apostrophes allowed in usernames ) who spotted it first.

YANBU at all. Yes, you missed the apostrophe in your title, but I choose to believe it was a typo.

All those of you who say it doesn't matter, it does. It really does. Children need to learn to be articulate. We have no excuse to use such appalling grammar. I am shocked that so few people are upset by it. Maybe it says something about the dreadful state of our education system.

As a teacher, I came across this while doing group moderation of work - I took a sharp intake of breath when reading that a teacher wrote, "Maybe you could of ...." in a child's book. No-one else seemed to get what I was moaning about. Sad. Dd3 (Y3) frequently points out to me that her teacher has mixed up it's and its. Much as I want to support the teacher, she should know.

Add me to the list of screamers - it really irritates me. Actually much more than misplaced apostrophes, I think because it suggests the person doesn't know how to form an ordinary past tense...?

Completely agree with Goingmad - yes, it does matter. Young people should be encouraged to spell and speak correctly. Verbally it's not such a big deal - it's clearly come from the sound of "Could've", etc, so it's not always noticeable but in terms of forms or CVs employers, universities, etc, should immediately discount a candidate who makes such basic mistakes.

waves back freely

YANBU

The one I always used to get wrong is bring/ take ( I.e when you say "bring something with you" and when you say "take something") I really had no idea that I got this wrong until it was pointed out to me at university. It took me a long time to 'get' the correct usage, and even now (20 years on) I am sure I use the wrong one sometimes.

princess

Touché!

it's a Dylan lyric, and poetic license trumps grammar

A note was left for me by a district nurse who regularly attends my mum at present. Here are two excerpts :

'....shakeing - left leg. '

and

'...something not wright.'

I just pray she never has to go in the drugs cabinet and differentiate between spelling of harmless and potentially deadly drugs .

Why do you even care that much?

Actually, the correct usage is 'might' have, not 'may' have. May = permission, might = possibility. Just thought I'd mention it.

Have you lost the shift key on your keyboard?

It's a bit rich to complain about other posters when your own posts are full of errors

My pet hate is when people as 'aks' instead of 'ask' still it is such a minor thing and so long as my children don't do it I can't really complain.

'of' instead of 'have' drives me bonkers, and sadly, it does make me hoick my judgey pants to chin level before I've digested what the post said. This does not make me a good, decent or nice person, but it does mark me out as someone who will correct your speech in a highly annoying fashion.

I apologise. Or apologize. I also apologis/ze for any spelling, grammatical or punctuation errors in this post. I have been correcting DS on 'brang' (instead of 'brought') for a while. DP is a hopeless case: 'You was', 'I were', etc etc.

You are NOT NOT NOT being unreasonable, I don't even read a thread if I see that. Sets my teeth on edge.

People who are so mean-spirited as to start threads which pointedly mark out another MNer posting about something that is upsetting them, and then don't even have the good grace to use capital letters, full-stops and apostrophes make me want to scream.

Actually, no they don't. That would be a total over-reaction.

I am as pedantic as the next person. There are plenty of things that annoy me, so I endeavour not to make those mistakes myself. I don't point out other people's grammatical mistakes (at least not on discussion forums) as that would make me an arse.

There is just something entirely witless about somebody complaining about bad grammar and the evilness therein, whilst littering their own post with bad grammar. Really.

What a mean thread this is ,full of look at me I'm so clever posters

oh and FannyPriceless you know what you can do with your apostrophe