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to stress it is fucking spelled DEFINITELY. DEFINITELY DEFINITELY

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LadyMountbatten · 20/04/2013 11:03

grr

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jenny99 · 21/04/2013 09:01

(Obviously my first line was taking the piss.....please don't think it was an error!!!)

usualsuspect · 21/04/2013 09:09

I get of off and to and too mixed up all the time. Oh well.

LadyMountbatten · 21/04/2013 10:34

Maybe that's an indicator

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usualsuspect · 21/04/2013 10:57

An indicator that I'm a bit dim?

Toadinthehole · 21/04/2013 20:13

Reads OP

Blush blush Blush

Although generally someone is tugging on my leg when I post on Mumsnet.

badbride · 21/04/2013 22:25

The grizzly scene...( if it is covered in blood spatters, it is grisly. Covered in thick brown hair - grizzly. HTH.)

The grizzly scene--like the gay scene, only for people who like to hibernate and eat joggers. And when sassytheFIRST would indeed have to grin and bear it in a whole new way :)

sassytheFIRST · 21/04/2013 22:28

Haha, great image.

(hear me ROARRRR!)

LadyMountbatten · 21/04/2013 22:30

I don't know what in taking about with indicator.

I don't remember typing it. I've gone mac.

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LadyMountbatten · 21/04/2013 22:30

Mad.

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LadyMountbatten · 21/04/2013 22:30

Oh I know. That she put ect rather than etc

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Dawndonna · 21/04/2013 22:32

I can't bear it, either. If you can't bare it any longer, good, I don't want to see it, and the weather's not that good yet, anyway.

WotSoFunee · 21/04/2013 22:38

Your being unreasonable Wink

administrator · 21/04/2013 22:48

One word.

'gawjus'

Is it only all over my FB newsfeed?

Hate it.

ShotgunNotDoingThePans · 21/04/2013 22:52

Have we had the OPs worrying about grammer school entry tests?

HorryIsUpduffed · 22/04/2013 12:58

There is a difference between may be and maybe. WIBU to charity shop the offending t-shirt the PIL gave DC2 now that they've seen him in it once?

shockers · 22/04/2013 13:26

*The other one I do a secret snidey snurk at is when people ask about " Independant" schools.

Obv think " lady, if you can't spell it, are you sure it is right for you and yours"*

Don't feel bad, I have much the same thought every time someone I know writes another boasty status update about her son getting a place at, "The Grammer School".

shockers · 22/04/2013 13:28

Oh, and she's, "Defiantly not drinking ever again" every Sunday morning Grin

Sparklyboots · 22/04/2013 21:45

OP, the grammar of your original question is in question. Should you want to assert that it is indeed spelled 'definitely,' but with the added emphasis of 'fucking,' it really should be expressed: 'It fucking is spelled definitely...'. As 'It is fucking spelled definitely' implies the object of the sentence, 'it', is committing a lewd act upon spelled, and you confirm this absolutely ('definitely').

I feel shame that I have been compelled to write this.

LadyMountbatten · 22/04/2013 22:22

I know! I was filled with rantage

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HorryIsUpduffed · 22/04/2013 22:26

I challenge that challenge.

Here "spelled" is functioning as a straight adjective, not part of a passive with "is". "Fucking" is the intensifier. If she had chosen "always" instead, would you choose "it is always spelled definitely" or "it always is spelled definitely" ?

LadyMountbatten · 22/04/2013 22:27

I can reassure both challengers that you're giving it more thought than I did

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GerundTheBehemoth · 22/04/2013 22:38

'Wary' means you're on your guard. 'Weary' means you're knackered.

Sparklyboots · 23/04/2013 01:06

though actually I would say, 'it always is spelled definitely' because I like the slightly antiquated sound of the structure, I concede; it was genuinely a question.

BOF · 23/04/2013 02:56

The way I remember 'discreet' is to think of someone stage-whispering "Shhh, be discreeeeet".

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