To be such a pedant?

[Lincolnfield]

This modern craze for using ‘of’ instead of ‘have’ drives me nuts - so we have ‘I should of’, ‘I would of’ - it’s ‘should HAVE!’ It’s not hard.

The other thing that has me throwing things at the TV is bloody Alexander Armstrong. For somebody who was privately educated and went to Cambridge university, his mastery of basic English is dreadful. I sometimes catch the end of his pointless quiz show - yes, it is absolutely pointless- and he always signs of by saying ‘It’s goodbye from Richard’(and Richard dutifully says goodbye ) and follows that with ‘And it’s goodbye from me. Goodbye.’

He doesn’t have to say goodbye twice! Just ‘it’s goodbye from me’ will suffice.

I know, I have too much time on my hands.........

Now the goodbyes have been mentioned, I've (I of??) just thought about one of our PMs at work, she's always in a bloody rush, probably shit planning just like her projects. When she ends a call invariably in a rush, you get "bye ... bye ... bye bye ... b...." and she's gone. I'm sat there thinking say it once you daft sod and hang up!!!

My problem is probably that I cannot stand Alexander Armstrong! 😂😂

I'd agree, he's definitely a bit marmite.

although, akin with all the other mindless quiz shows, it frequently descends into pure farce

Akin to, not akin with, surely?

I can forgive Armstrong a lot for the joy of Hey Duggee.

The thing which absolutely astounds me is the level of literacy of people selling on Facebook. They don’t even attempt basic punctuation. No fullstops, no capital letters, and every plural noun has an apostrophe before the ‘s’. Everyone in this country has 11 years of education, so how can they not have picked up the very basics of grammar?

I wouldn't loose any sleep over it.

two Ronnies sign off

Why do people shove apostrophes in where they are not needed and omit them where they are? God it's SO irritating. I've just read a baby names thread and apostrophes abound, for example, 'We know three Sienna's.' Then another thread with the title, for example, 'My brothers sons tonsils keep getting infected'. Why do this? I agree completely with a PP who questions why 11 years of education have not instilled the basics of SPaG.

@missmouse101, my favourite ever random apostrophe usage, was on a sign I saw at Washington Services on the A1 about 20 years ago: “Choo’se” 5 items for a cooked breakfast” .

Yikes! That's horrendous! Although I actually once came across a person who had written Jame's. (I silently swore and screamed.)

It's off, not of

Crustycrab, did you read the replies? That was covered on page 1.

I’ve just seen ‘pack lunch’ somewhere - it made me wince.
Ditto whenever I see ‘mash potato’ or ‘mince beef’.

Still suffering with no sleep and the dreaded lurgy! 😏😏 So another one is people who write or say ‘year’ instead of ‘years’, as in ‘he’s twelve year old’. He’s twelve YEARS old!

I live in South Yorkshire but am of Irish birth so I still don’t understand why people here say ‘rate’ instead of ‘right’. It takes no more effort to pronounce the word correctly. My granddaughters (15 and 12) say this all the time and when I’ve challenged them, they roll their eyes and say, ‘Nanna it’s ‘yorkshireish’. I despair!

Now where’s the paracetamol and the cough linctus - or should that be ‘Medsin’ - another pet hate! God, I’m sad. 😂😂

I say should've which I'm sure sounds like should of to some people but it is should've which is in my brain.
Alexander Armstrong is taking off Ronnie Barker in the Two Ronnies,, or that's what i thought, it's 'goodbye from him and goodbye from me'.

I don't think it's a craze, just an increasingly common error (on MN, anyway!).
Brought/bought is irritating as is the ridiculous misuse of "myself" (again, seemingly only on MN).

Putting a semi colon, instead of a colon, to introduce a list.

Apostrophe's in plural's.

PackED lunch.

the ridiculous misuse of "myself" (again, seemingly only on MN).

Sadly, not only on MN. It's as though people think me is too small, they need a bigger word.

PackED lunch.

Are you saying that’s incorrect?

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the use of "too" on Mumsnet. So many posters believe if a sentence ends with "to" then the "too" form should be used, as in "He wants me to ring his DM but I shouldn't have too". I see it every time I'm on Mumsnet.

Another pedant here! Unfortunately the American aluminum is correct - it is us that have changed it (google it's history) - likewise I HATE the word 'diapers' but that is the original name (IIRC named after the inventor Mr Diaper). My pet hate? 'haitch' and not 'aitch' Grrr....

PackED lunch.
Are you saying that’s incorrect?

Of course not.

This modern craze for using ‘of’ instead of ‘have’ drives me nuts - so we have ‘I should of’, ‘I would of’ - it’s ‘should HAVE!’ It’s not hard

If you’re discussing written language then “should of” is of course incorrect. If you’re discussing spoken language then you’re possible hearing “should’ve” as “should of”. The former being perfectly fine.

I sometimes catch the end of his pointless quiz show - yes, it is absolutely pointless- and he always signs of by saying ‘It’s goodbye from Richard’(and Richard dutifully says goodbye ) and follows that with ‘And it’s goodbye from me. Goodbye.’

At least he doesn't say "It's goodbye from Richard and I", which an awful lot of people I work with would say.

I got this e-mail today:
"Myself and the Team look forward to seeing you again on [date]."

Themselves received a reply from myself suggesting that myself would reword it.

I have to read a LOT of statements written out by police officers where the SPAG drives me potty: traffic officers who don't know the difference between "kerb" and "curb"; shoplifting files referring to "isles" instead of "aisles" and lately defendants seem to be shouting "Peado" at everyone they encounter....
(also the number of books (and threads) I read where no-one seems to know that it's "free rein" not "free reign"