Advice / advise

[lilyb84]

You give advice (noun). Or you advise (verb). Has anyone else noticed the latter being used to mean the former ALL THE BLOODY TIME?!

AIBU to think this is going the way of apostrophes being used in plurals and everyone's favourite 'could of' and entering written language as acceptable usage?

It shouldn't bother me but it does perhaps because I'm 5 hours into a newborn cluster feed and just want to sleep dammit. Oh god, am I becoming the grammar police?!

Yes - it's a fairly new change. I was at the beginning of that generation (80s/90s) who weren't taught much formal grammar.

I think it is a mixed blessing, the way it's coming back in schools. But then, I have a friend whose daughter seems to be really enjoying the 'game' of knowing what different things are called. She might be the only child ever who thinks diagramming a sentence is dead exotic, like Laura Ingalls Wilder.

I actually didn't read the second paragraph of Maryz post as being a deliberate mistake (owing to the pointed apostrophe comment in the brackets).

Anyhow.. I wouldn't have pointed out any of it had it not been the patronising response to the poster with dyslexia.

I don't recall learning any grammar in school - I remember picking up most of what I know just by reading lots. It came as a shock when learning languages at secondary school as none of us were aware of the existence of different clauses etc. It was clearly an issue for our generation as my peers and I had to do a two day grammar course at uni - while studying for an English Literature degree! Too little, too late...

My DC is dyslexic - and a teacher; also from the generation that wasn't taught anything about grammar at school. I agree with Maryz approach wholeheartedly -- some things I've been able to help with just using 'tips and tricks' that I was taught back in the day - and it's been much appreciated...
The snag with the education system at present is that many of the people who are supposed to be teaching grammar etc under the new system come from the generation that was never taught it themselves so are finding it uphill going...! That's not their fault, as no-one can be expected to teach something that they have never learned, but it's making life difficult for many younger teachers...