To amend school newsletter

[lia66]

Bit tongue in cheek but for heavens sake, it's not rocket science is it?

"We can develop a project that can be pacifically aimed at....

[Trifleorbust]

lia66:

[happy2bhomely]

GCSEs, GCSEs, GCSEs.

I am conscious I'm not trying to help anyone But you have helped. Thanks for pointing it out. I always get it wrong

There see, you've just learned me something!

[SantasLittleMonkeyButler]

Bad grammar is par for the course in your area is it?

Not in my house! But yes in general, I know.

I'm not the best to judge. I once handed a memo back to my Manager with 46 (no less) spelling & grammatical errors circled in red pen .

[DonkeyOaty]

Surely you'd be emending?

[gamerwidow]

Argh stupid phone ... thought I'd sent a beginning bit to that post! Still as you were nothing to see here.

[gamerwidow]

although maybe I am because I can't manage to not accidentally press send before I've edited my post

[Mimisrevenge]

I did this when my daughters teaching assistant took a permanent black marker to her kit bag and spelt her name wrong in big lettering. Not happy. School paid for a new bag. All sorted. She also apologised.

[JustHappy3]

Thing is it's GCSEs. Not GCSE's.
Plural not possessive.
But I'm not sure how my pointing it out really gains anything. On a CV I'd been asked to proof read - yes absolutely worth pointing out. In this situation I am conscious I'm not trying to help anyone.

[smilingsarahb]

I've sent out a willies email instead of wellies (school office lady) I was mortified. The children were going on a trip and I sent a reminder to not forget their willies. I justify it as it was autocorrected and it's very much a job of constant interruptions (vomit, cuts, bumps, sand in the eye, sellotape up the nose). I am very comforted to see another person has done the same thing.

[bumsexatthebingo]

Why would you amend it then? For yourself? You already know how to spell specifically.

[lia66]

I'm not about to go into school shaming anyone btw as I said in the OP.

[lia66]

trifle chill

olympiathequeen yes. I know her, and yes this is how she speaks. I've heard her say it out loud. ( actually I'm assuming it's written by the receptionist, maybe it's not )

[bumsexatthebingo]

It will have been noticed. But good luck to everyone who would like to go in and point out that a poorly paid admin worker isn't perfect. It seems like a silly mistake but we all make them (even silly ones).

[NennyNooNoo]

Burntbum that's pretty poor. I'd be tempted to say something.

[CaliforniaHorcrux]

Ironically you can be sure when they applied for the job that they said they were good at attention to detail

[Olympiathequeen]

It's a fat fingers! My iPad does it all the time. If I go fast and don't connect with the 's' auto correct will try to make sense of specifically without the s and it's likely to come out pacificallly.

You're not seriously trying to say someone working in a school thinks specifically is pronounced pacifically?

Auto correct does some bonkers things.

[Trifleorbust]

Bloody snobs. So someone doesn't know how to spell 'specifically'. Well done for laughing at them

I bet if we did a spelling test everyone who has commented rudely here would get at least one word wrong.

Tossers.

[lia66]

serin I bet the kids loved that one. We get our newsletters by email so I doubt many kids see them except my dd who asked to read the ofsted report the other day--

[lia66]

lobster

[HesMyLobster]

Just send this in :

[Beeziekn33ze]

Serin. Love it! Snow and a rude word, the kids must have been delighted!!
OP I think you should, very tactfully, bring it to the attention of the head, in person rather than in a letter or email. However it is a mistake also made by the leader of the free world ... 🙄

[Serin]

Our best school letter stated;

"If children wish to play out in the snow, please ensure that you send their WILLIES with them in a separate bag".

Caused much hilarity!

[glitterazi]

OMG, I actually just cringed reading that. Seriously? Pacifically?! Was it written by Del Boy?!
I don't think I could let that one slide. That's atrocious for a school newsletter!
I'm a grammar pedant at the best of times and that one would finish me off and I'd want a lie down. Lie down being preferable to a rant and my blood pressure rocketing every time I looked at it.

[happy2bhomely]

I am sympathetic to poor spelling and grammar. I live in East London with my dyslexic husband, so I experience both daily, and I hate to see people humiliated for their mistakes.

I am getting tired of the 'dumbing down' that is prevalent in schools and hospitals etc. Getting spoken to like I'm a simpleton by professionals. I understand it's to increase accessibility to information, but it is patronising.

I don't judge anyone for not knowing something. I do judge people for making no attempt to learn. My SIL, for example, is looking for work. She doesn't have any GCSE's. I have suggested that she signs up for an adult literacy/numeracy class. She just happily says 'Nah, I'm no good at maths, who needs all that stuff anyway!' She went for an interview where the guy very tactfully told her that as much as he liked her, she didn't have the skills needed to do the job. All she took from that is that he liked her.

I think we do need to point out mistakes like this, in a gentle way so that people can learn. If you can't spell and type properly you shouldn't be working in an office.

I'm far from bright, I have a clutch of B grade GCSE's to my name, but I am shocked at the apparent low level of quite basic skills in our society.

[unlucky83]

It could be a typo that has been corrected using spell checker and the person wasn't paying attention ...I'm sure we have all done that - correct, correct, correct - oh damn it and have to go back and correct the correction...