To be Specific....

[Gossipmonster]

One of admin lady at work's favourite words is "specific" thing is she says "pacific" Every. Fucking. Time.

Another colleague (degree educated) says "she/he done" instead of "did".

I just want to scream - but feel like it's so petty I couldn't possibly say anything.

Anyone else? :)

"10 items or less" is actually as correct as "10 items or fewer". Neither are a complete sentence, they are both contractions: the first is a contraction of "10 items or less than that amount of shopping" the second is a contraction of "10 items or fewer than that number of items".

To remember whether to use "dependant" or "dependent", think of "complainant" or "tyrant".

These are nouns.

"Dependent" is an adjective, such as "insolent".

I bloody hope think that's right.

And yes, it should be "bored with" or "bored by", not "bored of".

Although 'of', 'by' and 'with' are all prepositions, so perhaps it's one of those phrases that just sounds wrong.

I'll Google do some research.

Yup, "bored of" is a grammatically correct construction, just more recent, so is not accepted as Standard and this should be avoided in formal writing.

*thus.

Bloody autocorrect.

Another vote for "nucular". People who say it are presumably perfectly capable of saying "new" and "clear", what's so difficult about putting the two together?

Also the use of "her" and "him" instead of "she" and "he" in constructions such as "her and her son went to the shops". You wouldn't say "her went to the shops", ffs, what difference does it make that you've added "and her son"?

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