To say it's QUEUE, not QUE?

[ImWearingReallyJudgyPants]

Every time I see "que" on here, all I can think about is Manuel in Fawlty Towers.

It's a sodding QUEUE.

@Janegrey333

My comment regarding autocorrect was meant to be ironic. But you are taking it literally so I shall inform you that I “don’t use it, either. It just happens to be there. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It doesn't "just happen to be there" if you turn it off. 😁 Sorry, but sometimes it's difficult to get irony from a written text.

I’m not convinced by your argument.

That's absolutely fine. World would be boring if we all agree on everything.

It's annoying, but I try not to judge. There are reasons why people make these mistakes. Refusing on principle to continue reading a thread on the grounds that the OP makes grammatical or spelling mistakes is petty in the extreme. As are posters who claim not to be able to understand posts because of their poor grammar. If that's the case then it's almost certainly your reading comprehension that's below par.

A lot of crap spelling (including misplaces apostrophes) is down to sentient keyboards.

A bit of artificial 'intelligence' doesn't actually confer feelings on my computer, let alone on its input device. (Sorry, this is surely a thread for pedantry.)

I occasionally come across a queue/cue confusion in the term 'depth cue' in 3d graphics - it's 'cue' as in a signal, but I suppose people writing 'queue' are thinking of it as the objects lining up back along the Z axis.

Queue is correct but whoever made that word up was just trying to get more points in scrabble as it should clearly be que.

I've seen viscous three times this week.

@Janegrey333

I'm not sure that I could bring myself to buy furniture from an illiterate.

dons tin helmet

I feel like that about some posts. I’m afraid I stop reading when I come across a “should of” or something similarly nonsensical. If that’s the effect on me, somebody on a mere forum, what must the effect be on potential employers, for instance?

The childminder/nanny thread repeated 'should of' so many times I just had to comment. I usually resist but it didn't make any difference anyway.

@Hyperion100

Queue is correct but whoever made that word up was just trying to get more points in scrabble as it should clearly be que.

😂 I like that theory

This thread reminds me of something I saw online.
It was a guy who called himself ‘the grammar police’ or something, and would stealthily, in the black of night, remove and add incorrect apostrophes from shop signs. 😂

I just googled, and it was actually the ‘Grammar Vigilante’ of Bristol 😂

@LindaEllen

It annoys me in the same way as a 'chest of draws' (or god forbid 'Chester draws).

So long since we last discussed chests of draws!

@LouiseBelchersBunnyEars

This thread reminds me of something I saw online. It was a guy who called himself ‘the grammar police’ or something, and would stealthily, in the black of night, remove and add incorrect apostrophes from shop signs. 😂

I used to want to keep a thick red marker pen in my bag for misplaced apostroph'e's'! Oddly, omitted apostrophes never bother me.

@ivfbabymomma1

It's allowed not aloud!!!!!!

Wow I needed to say that

Being totally indifferent to pop music I was quite surprised when I saw Girls Aloud written down.

My keyboard annoys me intensely- it doesn't like bog standard plurals of days of the week, adds in apostrophes whether I want them or not.

It went through a phase of turning 'it's not' into 'it snot'.

It's behaving at the moment though!

@ImWearingReallyJudgyPants

Every time I see "que" on here, all I can think about is Manuel in Fawlty Towers.

It's a sodding QUEUE.

My lovely best friend does this all the time. When she means ‘queue’ or ‘cue’.

Your keyboard is an innocent intermediary, a mere dumb peripheral.

@LouiseBelchersBunnyEars

This thread reminds me of something I saw online. It was a guy who called himself ‘the grammar police’ or something, and would stealthily, in the black of night, remove and add incorrect apostrophes from shop signs. 😂

I have been known to do the same, and not even under cover of night.

I removed a rogue apostrophe from a notice in Boots about "medicine's" while I was waiting to collect a prescription.

@Janegrey333 I probably haven't seen those threads. I have been around MN since the Very Beginning, but have long breaks when it starts to make me too cross (Covid threads, I'm looking at you).

People using loose instead of lose makes my teeth itch. I see it every day!!

@SonjaMorgan

Lose/loose, wierd, alot, could of...

I care about this alot.

hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

Discrete instead of discreet.

Nobody yet seems to have brought up (so to speak) bought and brought. As in, I brought a handbag from Next.

😂😂

They were doing an interview with hun, and said something like ‘Do you worry that what you’re doing is illegal’?

And he responded with something like ‘I think the misplaced apostrophe is the bigger crime here’ 🤣

*An interview with him

Suddenly I keep seeing bare instead of (I can't) bear it. Another surprising one is how many people write Kier and Kiera for Keir Starmer and Keira Bell.