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

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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

My next door neighbour's house is up for sale.
The adverising leaflets state that it is in a highly sort after suburb.
I can't get excited about incorrect grammar or spelling on a chat site but I do get irritated when I read it on something that should have been proofread.

It's a doggy dog world!
I wonder what the person who says that is thinking of?
Do they mean a ruthless competitive kill or be killed environment, in which case don't they wonder why a slightly comical phrase is used to sum it up?

Or are they trying to convey a sort of dog utopia, where everything is 'doggy'
or what??

it makes no fucking sense, just like chester draws makes no fucking sense unless you make some reference to what chester is drawing

Would anyone think that 'alice sings' is a plausible name for a piece of furniture?

I want to live in a doggy dog world!

Have we done 'by the bye'?

Read the title and my brain screamed that I was not 'aloud' to open the thread but when I did, well I just laughed 'allowed'.

Its no use persuing this. It won't effect anything. You just have to rage in discrete silence.

I don't think there's anything wrong with correcting passively by repeating what people have said back in the correct form or making threads like this. Sometimes it's only because people have never seen something written down (pacific/specific) and it might save them an embarrassing moment somewhere important like a job interview, for example.
But, unless it's someone really close to you who you can laugh about it with, it's a bit rude to openly say, 'ah, I think you mean...'.
Unless they are someone who says 'chimbley'. In which case, correct and punch.

V posh, educated commentator on Sky this morning said " the proof will be in the pudding". No it won't! The proof of the pudding will be in the eating!

Also have intense dislike of "stomping ground" now used universally instead of the correct "stamping ground".

One of the directors at work always says prospective instead of perspective. And starts every email with I hope your well. I have been working on him and he now writes I hope you are well.

But just to mess with your mind, I noticed in an old piece of writing on Who Do You Think You Are? that its was written with a possessive apostrophe (in a possessive context). So it seems that it has probably changed over the years to distinguish it from the contraction for it is.

Split infinitives only became a thing once Star Trek started 'to boldly go'. Nobody seemed to mind them before that, and they were not mentioned when I was learning grammar at school, and were often encountered in books (even books not written by Enid Blyton!).

I think that a lot of pedants just picked the Star Trek example to use, and so more and more people became aware that it was incorrect - though I think by the 60s split infinitives were so rife in the population that they had become colloquial and therefore quite acceptable.

A lot of this stuff will do that.

My bugbear, which no one seems to mind at all is 'led'.
I shall lead my sheep to safety.
I have led my sheep to safety.
Again, that was correct when I was a child. I suppose it no longer is, and we only get the pronunciation change without the spelling change, thus 'lead' is used for both. I think it's a pity, because I like those old (archaic) things and if we still used 'led' then we could maybe use 'pled' - a million times better than the awful 'pleaded' - and we could also then be confident that 'slid' would remain, and perhaps we could also use 'glid' - another pp so much nicer that the ugly 'glided'.

Interestingly, someone has just told me that when doing jury service, the word 'pled' was used officially, though probably spelt 'plead'; and I am not confident that it was ever spelt 'pled' in the first place, as I base the idea on my actual memory of 'led'.

Funny you should mention Sky. I've just been reading one of their articles which says the Brexit Bill must receive "royal ascent"

Not grammar as such but 'pack lunch' drives me mad. Packed! Packed lunch! As in a lunch that has been packed. Feel better for that!

Ooh I've thought of another. Just been in a meeting where I heard phrases such as 'more better' and 'more quicker'.

I seen this earlier and then done it
Aaaaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh

my friend has Asparagus Veins

A very insignificant one that still bugs me is 'disinterested' and 'uninterested'. Seriously nitpicky!

People say 'disinterested' when they mean 'uninterested'. Disinterested actually means 'without a personal stake in whatever-the-discussion-is', 'speaking without any expectation of personal advantage'.

"I would of" - makes me shudder

"Fire a shot across his bowels" livened up a boring day at the office.

Lol, Cottongusset. I love the orginal, but that is a marvellous variation.

This morning on R4, Nick Robinson referred to the Chancellor as "Spreadshit Phil". He pretended it was a slip up and corrected himself but we know you meant it, Nick

This morning on R4, Nick Robinson referred to the Chancellor as "Spreadshit Phil". He pretended it was a slip up and corrected himself but we know you meant it, Nick

Found it so funny, I posted it twice

Found it so funny, I posted it twice