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

Autocorrect is the spawn of Satan if you ask me. Sneaky little fekker is always changing things at the last second!

If I may add one - it's a bridle path. Bridle. Like on a horse. Not bridal!

Can't think of pacific sentences in which to be clever but...

Dose = does
His = as in "His going out"

pulling own hair out now

Eye new it was "All intents and porpoises"! Vats because I'm tangfastic at grandma. Eye was never taught the rules at school. I wish eye had bean introduced to grandma, and the proper way two construct a sentence. Never had a single lessen about verbs, nowts and additives. The secrets of punctuation was kept from me. (Is Pre school two separate words? Or does it need to be hyperventilated?) Everything eye no now about righting I leant from Bill Bryson.

mutepoint This was funny but now you're just being snotty and digging yourself deeper with each post.
Best pack it in.

We was so happy you was able to post about this.

One I see a lot on retail Facebook pages: "pillow to post"! 🙈

I think everyone no's this type of Fred isn't going two make the blindest bit of difference?

Then you add autocorrect into the mix...the outcome isn't pretty!

I do recall a rather cringe worthy moment. I had sent an email to the SEN department regarding a horrific incident that had happened to my son. Only I hadn't put 'horrific' autocorrect had altered the word to 'orifice' I still recoil in horror at my faux pas :(

Everyone calm down and we'll have a nice cup of tea and a slither of cake!

My autocorrect certainly seems to think I have a real interest in duck, ducks and ducking...

I do not.

These things don't tend to bother me but I must admit I inwardly cringe at 'of' in place of 'have'. I mean reading it back it looks so wrong and sounds so wrong, say it out loud and it sounds ridiculous so how can people not know they have don't it.

That is the only one that bothers me, I'm probably guilty of crimes against grammar myself but I know my 'have' from my 'of' at least.

Maras2 - point out where I've been snotty?

Should of, Phil??

I saw 'a casian' the other day instead of occasion. Loved it!

It's pretty easy to understand how Rita - people aren't transcribing "could have" they're going for "could've" which sounds pretty close to "could of"...not rocket science that one

When I saw this thread I turned around and told DH. Then I turned around and told my mum.

I shan't be thanking you any day soon. Pedants set my teeth on edge far more than grammatical mistakes. If someone has managed to communicate effectively that is all that matters.

Flogging- yes, it was a joke, in the spirit of the thread...

Mute. So you were trying not be sneery? That's a fail then.

But hey, let's all have a good laugh at people with less than perfect English. We don't want their sort on Mumsnet anyway do we?

It's unkind to sneer at people who may not have had the benefit of a good education. How would you learn spelling or good grammar if you have never been taught?

Would you like to lend my dictionary?

Yes, the whole thread leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Sneering at people who are less educated than you is not a good look.

Dc had grammar homework yesterday inserting verbs into the correct tense in a text. Part of the PRINTED text said 'I ringed the doorbell'

Bit of a mad mistake for published material.

I do find myself hard pressed to get that bothered by mistakes on MN, certainly can't bring myself to feel a thrill of superiority that many seem to get on these threads. Something I see 'rediclous' and wonder how the writer hasn't noticed it spelt different elsewhere and cottoned on.

Plus i certainly make enough myself I'm very sure. In fact my whole family used 'tenderhooks', as did I, until I read tenterhooks in a book. There's often the scoffing about "what did you think tenderhooks were?'' comment. But as with many sayings people tend not to analysis them and just use them. If pushed I'd have said it was a hook that was weak and could break easily (so being on tenderhooks means you feel like you'd easily go to pieces). Mind you I had too look up what tenterhooks were - so I warrant there's many using tenterhooks without knowing what the actually are or the origin.

I do think you have to be especially stubborn to pretend you can't figure out how the incorrect version came about or is used.

Oooh, just the other day I saw a new one - 'I yousto' instead of 'I used to'

Well it doesn't really explain how silly it looks written down NotRumpole. I still think it sounds wrong as well, maybe with some accents you don't notice it as much but I'm Scottish and you can definitely distinguish 'could've' from 'could of'.

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