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?

Dame love your unintended irony. It really is another THINK coming. 😂

really I agree with you about the Chris' v. Chris's thing. There seems to be a school of thought in some grammar factions that you can't have two esses together but I don't see why not. People say 'this is Chris's wife' not 'this is Chris' wife' so I don't see why it's considered such hard work to spell it like that.

I blame Jesus and trying to shoehorn 'in Jesus's name' into all those hymns and still make it scan.

I've also seen people on Facebook say something like 'Everyone's status' today all going on about the snow' when they mean statuses, the plural of status.

Think! Fgs it's think. Thingers are just wrong.

I think it is playing on my mind.

The song is merrily.

Love Chester drawers...!!

Not quite as much as 'say lavee'.... Saw this on a local FB noticeboard 😆😆

I always thought it was 'another thing coming'

I was shocked when recently at work it turned out half of my colleagues (well, the ones who were in the lunch room at the time) thought it was 'I can't be asked' whilst the other (correct) half of us knew it was 'I can't be assed/arsed'...

Google supports both versions of that one, it turns out.

Another 'thing' coming

A friend of mine regularly catches trains from St Pancreas.

I have a colleague that uses the word alot in every single email she sends.

Constantly correcting DS who says would of???? It makes no sense.

I hate "would of " too.

My dear mother often uses a phrase "have went", as in "I have went to the shops", instead of "I went to the shops" or "I have gone to the shops".
Even more irritating is hearing my kids using that phrase because of her.

Nick maybe they used to love showing people their bottom but times have changed and now they just can't bare it.

It IS ..you've got another think coming,' meaning, 'You really need to think again about that.'

I had better not start on about 'reign' and 'per say' etc. or I'd be pedant-ing on all day.

Or 'I have been to the shops'

Re: would of/could of etc... it's easy to see that mistake in writing, but how can you tell when it's spoken? "Would've" and "would of" sound very similar, at least with cdn accent.

Also, something that I've only seen on MN is "text" instead of "texted" as past tense. Never see that in our area of Canada, and kids say they've never heard it.

I hate 'we need to close our boarders'

For more reasons than just the poor spelling.

Oh, the errant apostrophes make me so itchy.

When we moved house, FIL kindly came to help us pack up and label boxes.

Shoe's, kitchen thing's and coat's were the ones that made my eyes bleed the most.

Some of the things which make my teeth itch:

confusion between effect and affect

your/you're

defiantly when people mean definitely (and people here in Glasgow pronounce it "deff-inn-ATE-ley" which explains it. Hate it.

Seeing a large piece of bedroom furniture advertised as a "Chester draws"

Misuse of learn/teach as in "I learned him to ride his bike"

There are lots more. I do think standards are slipping and people on these threads always say that they never type on the net as they do in real life or speak, but I'm not so sure that's true.

What is wrong with I have been to the shops?

Cut where I work we have a border problem (nothing to do with all the stuff in the news, much less controversial!) And I keep getting emails from a colleague about the problems with boarders. But they're just school children!

Stealth- nothing, it's the most obvious option IMO.

I blame auto correct for many of these. I don't remember the confusion between definitely and defiantly being a huge issue until a few years ago. I think that people communicate through type and text so much more than through hand writing now that when autocorrect anticipates your thoughts and offers to (wrongly) complete a word for you, people who are not strong spellers or big readers start to read that proffered word as the one they need and assume the man who lives in their computer knows best. Then they start misspelling those words even when writing them by hand.

Myself/yourself is the pronoun of choice atm.

Yes, completely agree. People seem to think it's more polite than saying "me". We had a very long, badly written and poorly punctuated letter home from school once which ended up: "If any parents' would like to discuss this further, please contact myself".

I was SO tempted to send it back with "see me" written in big letters.

Say lavee

"Aswell" is not a word! It's two.

Also "I seen..."

Fills me with rage.

I saw this on a public page yesterday