People of MN read this please

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I don't really enjoy correcting spelling errors but I've seen this one so much on MN recently that I typed out a text to my DH this morning and wrote "rediculous" instead of "ridiculous". It's worked it's way into my written vernacular.

RIDICULOUS, people, RIDICULOUS.

Thangeweverymuch love you mwahmwah xxx

I often spell definitely as definately

I shall go away and give myself 20 lashes

Ooooh OP, your 2nd 'it's' should have been an 'its'. Apologies if someone has already pointed that out.

Oh yes, and re breastfeeding, can it be DISCREET, please, not discrete.

Discrete is completely discrete and not so discreet.

I would also like to add that the phrase is 'off my own BAT'. Not back!!!!

Indeed, Teacake.

And toe the line. Not tow. That's as wrong as a wrong thing can be.

dull as ditchwater,not dull as dishwater.

Hides form Shodan,I would have been tempted to spell that one wrong.

But cant help feeling we are being ageist here.Or is it the opposite of being ageist .

Oooh yes, good ones Teacake, Shodan and million

Tenterhooks not tenderhooks also.

I recently saw 'at your beckon call' :(

I definAtely will

"have you thought of going for some councilling?"

arrghhh!!!

Different from not different to-something differs from something else not to it.

it's worked its way.

HTH

thegreylady and not 'different than', either! (horrid Americanism)

I'm quite getting into this

Shodan, I hate to be a pedant but I do believe it is tow the line. As in, towing a seam on a ship's deck - scraping it clean and repacking it with a mixture of tow (pulled-out rope fibres) and tar, to keep it watertight and shipshape. People who say 'tow' not 'toe' probably think they mean 'towing a line' like throwing a rope off a boat. But it is tow, not toe.

Yes I read too much Patrick O'Brien

tow tow tow tow

it looks odder the more I read it.

I read Shodan's post as you mean it to be Reshape. That toe is wrong.

Whilst we are engaging in such a lovely freestyle pedantry thread (shurely a possible new Olympic event? Have we got a Mumsnet Alternative Olympics thread yet?), may I put in a request to expunge the use of "gotten" from Mumsnet?

"I have gotten a new bag"
No you haven't, you have got one.

Ridiclious.

I text my hubs regards this thread.

Now, without checking Fowler or your go-to grammarian, is it BORN of or BORNE of pedantry?

Ahem. Reshape.

here

and here

back me up.

Soz.

toe tow

thats the trouble with language
if it is spelt wrongly often enough it eventually becomes the right spelling as in the new way of spelling it.

yogurt yoghurt anyone?

Born of, surely, Greta? As in, springing or coming from. Borne would be like held aloft or carried by, I think, as in 'Borne on the wind'.

I'm not going to stake my impeccable reputation on it though.

I thank you.

Can I add rein in. Not reign in. Unless you are the Queen.

HUBS - do fuck off
HERE HERE now seems more commonly used than Hear Hear
DEFIANTLY for definitely - How? Why?

Not actually a mumsnet one but a colleague keeps doing it and I have to sit on my hands to stop myself pointing it out in a career-limiting kind of way:

"if you have any queries, please email myself"

No. NO NO NO. Please email me