It's 'make do' , not 'make due'?

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AIBU?

Colleague senior academic associate wrote' We'll make due' in an email

It's 'make do', right?

I love this thread. I love that it's escaped the bounds of Pedants' Corner and is roaming free around Mumsnet, and nobody is meaning about it.

I say Hi-un-dye.

I remember a mum-to-be from my 'anti-natal' class who was always talking about what she used 'Muslims' for, how many she had bought, and how useful they were.

Oh, and I'll never forget one of my uni lecturers referring to the cocktail as a 'strawberry die-queer-ee'

The advert says "y-undi"
Almost rhymes with sunday

ah pedants, quick help please.

I am making a display, one of the captions needs to say:

Today's Cardiff kids have a weekly race in the main corridor.

context - memories from this place over last xx years.
(Cardiff is entirely irrelevant, just a name plucked from the air, actual name is the name of the place)

It sounds awful, and after 100 captions my brain can't think any more.

1. is the apostrophe correct?
2. Can I phrase it better - bearing in mind it is a caption

thank you, sorry for thread hijack, need it done this morning, so looking for a lively thread to stick it on.

Cardiff kids of today have a weekly race in the main corridor.

The reason is sounds wrong is the juxtaposition of "today" with "weekly". It just doesn't make sense to me! What does the "today" refer to? Kids in this day and age or, actual today? Or is the name of the thing Today's Cardiff?

Oh - that's it, knew there was a better way round.
Was up till 1 am writing captions and my brain has died!

Thank you

kids who live there today, given that most of the pictures and memories are kids who loved there in the past.

lived even (although they may have loved too!)

My absolute fave - illegible bachelor

Although, talking about Americans, I work with quite a few and they all seem to use "your" and "you're" the wrong way round.

That happens just as much among Brits as Americans IME.

Very late to this but I have recently seen loads that make my inner pedant scream:

"Role on summer"
"We are on root to the villa"
"I should of said something"
"We where shocked!"
"I no your upset, hun"
"My break lights not working"
"If he thinks...he has another thing coming"

Oh and this, just in..
"Im board its raining"

Illegible bachelor

I'm throwing in right-off instead of write-off.

On MN I see a lot of people transpose the words 'loathe' and 'loath'.

I loathe the misuse but am loath to correct people.

Ofstead

On MN I see a lot of people transpose the words 'loathe' and 'loath'.

A few years ago we were the team leaders in a voluntary team. One day the other couple came to talk to us. They were upset because a couple of times when they had made a suggestion, we had responded with we would loathe it. They felt that we were unnecessarily harsh to their suggestions.

Turns out they (both well educated) had never heard of loath. So when I said, well, I would be loath to change what is working, but we could try.... they heard Loathe, and then didn't really hear the rest of the sentence.
They were American, and I did wonder if it was a word not used in the US, like fortnight.

I have a friend who broke her car, regularly. Took me a while to work out that she meant braked.

I know it's not a grammatical error, but dear god, I am sick of seeing posts littered with "cue ..blah blah blah" It's the new 'so I turned round and said...'

But not as bad as "que.....blah blah blah" which is confusing and then annoying once you work out what it means.

Rediculous
EyebrowNs

NO.