To think that the teachers should know how to spell Pythagoras?

[CharlieEppes]

DC had a special maths assembly today. At the front of the hall there was a big topic board and in large letters it said Pythagorus and again underneath in smaller text.

Is it just me or should the teachers have picked up on this even if the kids had helped with it?

No, nelly. It should be "Dp and me"

My spelling might be rubbish, but my grammar and syntax are pretty ace.

Nellyinwellies, no, the 23:11 post is correct. You missed a question mark in your post too .

Without wanting to generalise or stereotype, probably not a thread title you'd see anywhere but Munsnet

Mrs smith, it isn't correct (though which way round the DP and me should be I can't argue) and where would you add a question mark in my first post?

No, you always put yourself last in any list. "It made Fred, Mabel, Dp and me feel very cross"

Or "Fred, Mabel, Dp and I felt cross"

Learn something new every day Hakluyt ??

I'm also very good at putting duvet covers on and making doughnuts. But that's the limit of my talents!

My secondary school maths teacher couldn't spell calculator and one lesson spent a good 5 minutes trying to work it out while we sat and laughed not helping

> People get such a kick out of catching a teacher out, don't they? They must be compensating for something in their childhood

This is fair when it comes to the examples of teachers who merely make spelling mistakes themselves.

But we have a couple of examples on the thread of teachers telling children the correct spelling was wrong. That's not posters nit-picking. That's the teacher not only being wrong but being convinced of their wrongness and marking the child down for being right.

Forty five years ago, our biology teacher had a nervous breakdown.
Most of us felt very mean afterwards as we used to titter loudly and mock her bad spelling. She was an lovely lady and an excellent teacher but couldn't spell.

I don't think dyslexia had even been heard of then.

Sorry but this is one of my pet hates.
Me and DP is wrong grammatically. It should be I and DP or better DP and I, but that is a question of style.

I is the subject pronoun, i.e. the subject of the verb e.g. 'I think' not 'me think'. Me is the object pronoun e.g.' he loves me' not 'he loves I'. They are not interchangeable even if used in conjunction with other nouns e.g. 'The DC and I like chocolate' not 'The DC and me like chocolate'.

No. "I and DP" is not a matter of style-it's wrong!

And in the post we are all being so smartarsy about it should most definitely be "still made DP and me that they've had......."

Gove changed the rules so that anyone can be a teacher. If you have a pulse, you can be a teacher. Because you don't need qualifications.

That was quite recent though, wasn't it? Isn't it more likely that this teacher started pre-Gove, has all the teaching qualifications, and still can't spell?

Isn't it DP and I rather than DP and me? I is the object and me is the subject, so if it's at the start it should be I, no? It's a bit like saying 'give I the mobile phone'.

Galaxy I hate misuse of your/you're too!

The umbrella one shocked me!

My ultimate pet hate though is misuse of 'literally' - I literally can't stand people who literally use that word for everything without actually knowing what it means. It literally makes me die inside.

Nope. "....made me ......."

So "made Dp and me ......."

Don't start me on "disinterested"!

Oh yes Hakluyt is right, I see why now!

sovery I wonder if the teachers who didn't teach you spelling and grammar were qualified...?

Mine's the misuse of the word 'mortified'. Instantly renders the misuser a moron in my mind. However one of my good friends misuses it so I have had to learn to forgive

Complaining about vocabulary then using the word "moron"

What's wrong with disinterested?