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

No, Bumps, because we can't let people go around writing "intensive purposes" because one day they might be ridiculed and we could have prevented that. It's a bit like letting a stranger walk out of the loo with her skirt tucked into her knickers and not saying anything!

This thread has effected me badly.

It's not quite on the point, but we once drove past a B&B on the outskirts of a town in lowland Scotland. The B&B was called Nessun Dorma.

Up with this I shall not put!

Mute you don't need to persuade me, I'm not with the grammar police but am fully paid up member of the grammar gestapo.

What do you make of "deceptively spacious" on estate agent adverts?

Love the idea of a goodwill jester

Bumps terrible name for a B&V! Do you think they know what it means?!

B&B

None of these would bother me but the 'draws' one I just can't understand, it's leaving a syllable out. It's a different word, it like writing "sist" instead of "sister".

Is there an accent where 'draws' sounds like 'drawers' ?

Sorry bit morbid but 'hung' rather than 'hanged' annoys me....anyone else?

For anyone confused about '..... and me' and '.....and I', there's a simple trick to make sure you get it right.

Take the '..... and' out of the sentence and pretend you are only talking about yourself. Whatever answer you come up with is the one you should also use in '.....and......'

So if you were saying 'Aunt Jane gave DP and (me/I) a toaster for Christmas', taking DP out of it as if the toaster was just for you, you'd say 'Aunt Jane gave me....', so it would also be 'gave DP and me.

Whereas if you were saying 'DP and (me/I) are having a party', if it was just you you'd say 'I am having a party' so it's 'DP and I are having a party.

I genuinely hope that helps someone.

Draws drives me mad, it's so silly.

I'm wondering whether the Bob of "Bob standard" is the same Bob referred to in "Bob's your ankle"?

I am taking my neice to see Little Mix in July and now, thanks to @SummerHouse and her 4 yo shouting out to his eggs, I will be doing the same

..and I fucking spelt niece wrong, didn't I?

3luckystars - in my London accent they sound the same!

Really?
(I'm trying to do a London accent, with my Irish accent) so it sounds like 'drause'

Ah, That makes sense! Thank you, I will be more understanding in future!

Oh I have a funny one about Little Mix! A girl at work told her colleague was gone to 'Little Mix' and I asked her who 'Little Mick' was. (I thought she was visiting his house and was looking at her, completely confused as I had never heard of him)

They laughed for days.

That's brilliant 3luckystars. I spent ages searching online for the band "Jason Status" but it turned out to be "Chase and Status".

"Is there an accent where 'draws' sounds like 'drawers' ?"

Both are pronounced /drɔːz/ in most non-rhotic British accents.

All this talk of Chester drawers, but what about the walldrobes?

Favourites at work:

the whole gambit (they mean gamut, but no one I've met seems to have heard the word)
I have to do this too as well
wrong sort of there/their/they're - pick your circumstances
stationary instead of stationery (all together now "a" for attending, "e" for envelope..!)

If I sit here long enough, I reckon I could fill a book since I recognised every single one !

They're they're , every1 , you all need to carm down.

emmageddon if it helps you remember I now add "shout out to my eggs, you're really nice with ham"

It's a doggy dog world!