Honestly, to all intensive purposes you will thank me for this one day

[MutePoint]

I'm in no position to join the grammar police but some MNetters might be grateful to learn that

all intensive purposes should actually be: all intents and purposes

per say should be: per se

mute point should be: moot point

'make hens meet', ie. an introductory service for chickens.

Am imagining a Far Side style-cartoon of chicken speed-dating.

(Oops, i.e.....)

I had someone at work say to me

"Come see, come saw"

🙄

lets roll out the drums its laughteris birthday!
ehem...friends... its do a drum roll

ie without stops is fine and is a convention in legal writing

make hens meet'
Now that's just ridiculous.

LOVING this thread. I admit I'm a grammar pedant.
"Bowl in a china shop" anyone? And "from the gecko"?

If you think this thread will make a difference, you've got another thing coming...

I think the first MN thread I posted on was think/thing.

in the words of del boy Que'lle Fromage !

I am loving "from the gecko".

"School roles" always gets to me - how can people conceivably think a word meaning an actor's part in a play, or the part played by a person or thing in a particular situation, can conceivably be correct for a list of pupils in a school? Yet schools themselves are frequently amongst the worst offenders.

Every year an acquaintance writes on Facebook the following statement about their lost relative:

It's been 5 years but I hope you are having fun in haven.

I am not an expert and frequently make mistakes but can anyone here clarify this one thing that really gets to me.
I have often read on here "I left it on top of the chest of draws" and I don't want to ask because it's nothing to do with the thread, whether the passport is in the "draws" or the drawers, but I can barely look at it.

Is it wrong?

It's drawers so yes it's wrong

iremembericod Could it be the person is trying to put a spin on 'heaven'?
maybe the departed one loved going to Haven park on holiday whilst alive

So, it is defiantly time for advocado on otast, I brought some the other day.

"pore over a book" not "pour over a book"
"pique his curiosity" not "peek/peak his curiosity"
"toe the line" not "tow the line"
"bated breath" not "baited breath"
"fazed by the challenge" not "phased by the challenge"
"regardless" not "irregardless"

or toast

Thanks for the avocado!

Just been on another thread where a PP has described something basic as Bob standard. Nearly did myself a mischief. I'm not laughing at, I'm laughing with, ok?

Bone apple tea everyone

Who axed yous anyway?

"pore over a book" not "pour over a book"

You know, I've never written that sentence but if I had, I think I would have written pour

And I'm the snotty, sneery OP!

Of course you are Isitjustme.

You just keep telling yourself that.

Did you tell the poster you were going to scuttle over and talk about them on another thread so they could come and laugh as well?