To expect people not to use the word hung when they mean hanged.

[cushioncover]

Ok, I know IABU, and I'm no grammar queen myself but I've read this 4 times today and I just had to rant about it! There!

[cushioncover]

And not knowing something doesn't mean you're stupid, just ignorant. A willingness to learn implies the opposite, in fact.

[tigerschick]

Ooh can I join?? Please? Please?

I don't pretend to be the World's best speller or user of grammar ... but ... some things are simply inexcusable!

In Asda the other day they were advertising "100's of organic products". Sadly, though not for them, there was no one at the Customer Services desk. [grr] It's not so much the mistake but the thought of how many people saw the poster before it was printed and put up on the wall - Why didn't anybody notice?

[WanderingTrolley]

I have just realised my pedantry has its own pedantry.

I am annoyed by the following:
? poor grammar, spelling and punctuation on signs of any kind except greengrocers', of which I am paradoxically fond
? most printed matter
? websites that sell, inform or advise, but not forums,chat rooms or mad sites for mad people
? email attachments but not emails from friends
? anythingk wot I've writ rong

[vacua]

Surely it is fora, not forums [sic]?

[RibenaBerry]

Ooooh, oooh, I love these threads.

I want to join WanderingTrolley's fight against 'less'. They even use it incorrectly on the BBC. I sit there muttering 'fewer' under my breath. I can't help it. It's a reflex.

Can I also volunteer 'different from' and 'different to'?

To take pedantry to previously unscaled heights, you can even get yourself worked up about the use of the word dilema when there are more than two choices!

[WanderingTrolley]

According to the OED:

forum n. (pl. forums)

1. a meeting or medium for an exchange of views.
   
   
2. (pl. fora) (in an ancient Roman city) a public square or marketplace used for judicial and other business
   
   Please, someone slap me for being a smug fucker.
   
   
   
   I am going to get me a Latin nickname....

[vacua]

Usually with Latin words we follow Latin declensions, we use English plural forms for words we've imported from other languages though. We're both right but I bet anyone who has studied Latin at school grimaces at 'forums'!

[VagusPabo]

Ta da!

Though I am now a wheelbarrow, not a trolley.

I was going to be ErrabundusPlaustrum but it's a bit of a mouthful....

[LoveAngel]

slaps WT very very hard

Impressive, though!

I cannot stand it when people say 'somethink' instead of something. Also hate 'they're/there/their' confusion. Oh, and people who haven't grasped the 'i before e except after c' rule. Which reminds me - people who mix up except/accept and effect/affect. Just LEARN the difference, will you?

[vacua]

Ah you've just reminded me of people who say 'pacific' instead of 'specific'!

[beansprout]

People (especially those who live in London) who say "Westminister" instead of "Westminster".

[VagusPabo]

Took me ages but I found it - ah! Caecilius...







Could of.



GAAAAAHHHHRRGGGHHH.

[vacua]

people who think 'the converse' is a posh way of saying 'the opposite'.

[VagusPabo]

Converse

[vacua]

nice!

[RosaLuxembourg]

Disinterested gets to me.
Also momentarily. As in 'the plane will be taking off momentarily'...

[VagusPabo]

If it's an American plane, that's correct.

If it's an English one you'd better disembark pdq.

[VagusPabo]

momentarily
adverb
1 for a very short time:
She was momentarily confused by the foreign road signs.

2 US very soon:
I'll be ready to leave momentarily.

[Alambil]

I'm taking it you've all read Eats, Shoots and Leaves?

Brilliant book - well worth the read for the pedants out there.

[PandaG]

thanks for the cambridge latin course link - I did Latin for 4 years, one lunchtime a week, never got very far, but the site brings it all back!

[HorseyWoman]

I shudder when I see a person use 'of' instead of 'have'.

[HorseyWoman]

VagusPabo PMSL

[cushioncover]

Love the new name, VP!

I remember being on a first date with a guy who told me he liked to drink Australian rioja! Before that, I had thought him quite sexy but when he kissed me later, that's all I could think about.

Yes, I know that is not the same thing but it's my thread so, well, so there!

[uberalice]

"... with John and I"
instead of
"... with John and me"

[suey2]

on the weekend instead of at the weekend?
I blame the aussies