Just seen my first 'spag bowl' on FB. I feel like I belong here now

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I'm honoured.

Think I've mentioned this before on a similar thread, but, after doing this -> 🙄 at a Facebook post, I put up a PA post saying 'there's no such word as carnt'. Two people told me I was wrong

I haven’t read every page but am loving this thread! My biggest current bugbear is ‘lay down’. Please someone agree with me, I’ll need to lay down otherwise! 🤦‍♀️

Well I’ve just spotted
A Christmas reef and
Kitchen intensels
Gotta love it

Rest bite - respite
Depoll - deed poll
My own personal annoyances.

Someone on our village FB page posted about a child’s coat she found on the “wreck”.

Uttally ludicorous

Pleased to see some decent posters calling out the smug twattery on this thread.
Deeply uncomfortable reading for the most part. Pages and pages of piss-taking and mocking of people whose use of English isn't perfect.
Give yourselves a pat on the back. You're all hilarious.

Woman on my FB has got the slow cooker out and has had chilli concarny twice this week!

Also on a local selling site some shappy chick draws for sale

Dinning room. Can’t bear it.

This thread has gone on too long now.

I'm board.

Umpteen times a day on fb 'admin please delete if not aloud'
Drives me insane.

@TheCanterburyWhales- I feel the same. I’d rather be in the company of someone kind, who can’t spell (or gets sayings mixed up), than a mean spirited hysterical (gives me the rage- really??) pedant.

I love the English language, but if I was craving grammatical perfection, I’d be inclined to pick up a book, rather than look at Facebook.

Innit.

Re PP's slight on New Zealand, I used to live there and 'pottle' is an actual word, as I understand it a plastic container for food.

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"Lay down" might be fine, it just depends on the context, and the verb you're intending to use!

The verbs are to lay (put something down), and to lie (become horizontal) but confusingly, the simple past tense of to lie is lay. To make it even worse, the past tense of to lie (tell fibs) is lied.

Present tense:
I lay the coat on the bed. (I am laying...)
I lie on the bed. (I am lying...)
I lie about my past.

Simple past tense:
I laid the coat on the bed.
I lay on the bed.
I lied about my past.

Perfect tense:
I have laid the coat on the bed.
I have lain on the bed.
I have lied about my past.

So it would be "lay down your burdens, then have a lie down".

A relative just posted this to Facebook.

Poor old apostrophe. Doomed.

Here we just get

"deffo".

Which means they just can't spell; definitely.

@TheCanterburyWhales I couldn’t agree more. Very uncomfortable reading and extremely mean spirited.

I also hate how Bolognaise now seems an acceptable spelling because people can't spell Bolognese

Blame the French: Spaghetti à la bolognaise. I can never remember how many ps are in aparte...apparte...flat either because of French.

I love the English language, but if I was craving grammatical perfection, I’d be inclined to pick up a book, rather than look at Facebook

It’s getting to the point now though where i genuinely struggle to understand the meaning of posts. I find myself having to read aloud in various accents before I get it.

“Ano” took me ages. Was only when i realised it was a NE thing and read it in the correct accent I realised it’s “I know”.

Plus in selling sites, job sites or anywhere else a keyword search is used, you’re ackwarium isn’t going to come up in a search for aquarium.

Grammatical errors and typos i can cope with. But these people are seriously disadvantaging themselves- in my job we check social media of future employees. Anyone that illiterate would not get the job.

Someone on our village FB page posted about a child’s coat she found on the “wreck”.

I'm from Manchester and we always used to say "the park", never heard the abbreviation "rec" for "recreation ground." For years, when they mentioned it in Coronation Street, I always wondered what on earth "the red wreck" was.

When it's from people who really should know better, I find it really annoying.

Second sentence in a promotional email from the University of Bristol:
"From the social enterprise and non-conformity of Stokes Croft to the Georgian architecture and upmarket boutiques of Clifton, each area has it’s own unique appeal."

Delete if not aloud

I’m not a native English speaker, I learnt it at school and became fluent when as an adult moved to London. Ridiculous spelling mistakes does annoy me, I do expect more of the native speakers.

How do you not know the difference between there, their, they’re? Or allowed/aloud, bought/brought, to/too, have/of and so on. I rarely see other non-native English speakers make these mistakes. Granted I’m not dyslexic but I wasn’t brilliant at school either.

A local mum friend always writes no instead of know and it is really grating to read. I don’t want it to seep into the English language and become normalised.