To wonder how people make it to adulthood without knowing

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That a Christmas tree decoration is called a "bauble", not "ball ball"? Or how they make it through junior school without knowing the difference between "his" and "he's"? What happens in schools these days and don't people ever read anything?

@Ivy455

Probably always been said but spag bowl is the one that gets me.

I've seen spag bowel and it still makes me giggel👀

I do not accept that anyone in UK grows up and has no idea about WW2 or Holocaust. That's ignorance. That's not on schools or anything else. That's pure ignorance

"We got onto the topic of WW2 and I said that we were covering the holocaust which was upsetting for Y6 but needed to be talked about to stop it happening again!"

It might be that this 'snowflake' thing was the reason why she didn't know about the holocaust. When I was at school, we watched films from the liberation of the camps in history class in 3rd year. One girl had nightmares and her parents complained so it was stopped. That was a terrible thing because history was optional after that so one complaint stopped the film being shown to everyone.
Some things are worth having nightmares over.

The other thing that strikes me about this young girl is that must have not watched very much television. British TV is pretty obsessed with WWII.

r/boneappletea

My DH always says a ball point figure rather than ball park. It makes no fucking sense. I’ve considered divorce.

On the flip side, I read a LOT as a child. I’ve mispronounced a lot of words because I’d not heard them before, I’d only seen them in print and as a 90s child, I didn’t have Google to easily find proper pronunciations (and the pronunciation symbols meant nothing to me as a 10-year-old, so forget those).

Spag bowel or bowl really gets me too because surely people must realise “ bol “ is short for bolognese?!
I used to correct people but stopped because I don’t want to offend ( possible dyslexia etc). It’s really difficult sometimes though!

Imagine getting to adult life and thinking you’re superior than other people just because you have better spelling and grammar?!?

YABU. Get over it.

I heard this one on the radio recently. Bearly or barely??

It is always bear the animal unless you are naked.

It is partly for this reason that there is a campaign for children’s TV and technology platforms to turn the subtitles on - turnonthesubtitles.com
This would dramatically improve children’s literacy skills.

I was had my hair done by a lady who looked just like someone I know. I asked her if she had a sister. She said no. I then said she must have a doppelgänger. She said “I don’t know what sort of dog that is”.

I find it kind of sweet and tbh it doesn't merit an entire slew of posts it ain't that important

Honestly I think it depends on how much folks read rather than general intelligence or quality of education.

My spelling, grammar and understanding of the English language comes from being an avid reader not from my IQ or education as neither are anything special.

Chimley. There instead of their. Bear instead of bare. Recently I came across "I dernt do that" instead of "daren't. I've seen "weather or not" instead of "whether". And people saying "ek-cetra" instead of et cetera. I do try not to get all superior or let these things aggravate me too much. I realise some people just aren't good at spelling, just as some aren't good at maths, but it still does my head in.

A lady i no says lingerie exactly as its spelt lin ger ee.
I now call in lin ger ee 😂

I am an intelligent woman and I thought it was bobble (not bauble) until I was about 35 🙄.

@Yespresh

I heard this one on the radio recently. Bearly or barely??

It is always bear the animal unless you are naked.

I might be misunderstanding your post, but "bearly" isn't a word...

I agree it's always "bear with me", but "bearing with someone" and "having barely finished something" aren't related at all (other than the root words being homophones).

Am I the only one who has never seen someone refer to a 'ball ball' ??

I personally like angles instead of angels! Makes for amusing reading!

I call dd my little angle. Sometimes I tell her how many degrees she is

Page 1 and someone has opined that it’s a “regional thing”. No, it isn’t. It is due to ignorance of the correct spelling.

My brother is a teacher. In fact, he’s a head of year. However, he doesn’t know the difference between “their” and “there”.

@BunsyGirl

My brother is a teacher. In fact, he’s a head of year. However, he doesn’t know the difference between “their” and “there”.

Oh my goodness! That is shocking. Please tell me he is not an English teacher. You said Head of Year, though, which is often a position PE teachers are given, weirdly. Everyone knows spelling is not their forte...

@Janegrey333 No, he definitely doesn’t teach English. He had to retake the English test when he did his PGCE as he failed it the first time. He’s not a PE teacher though!

There just should be minimum language standard for teachers...

Just to add my sibling ais a teacher (not UK) and if he didn't knwo basics of our language, he wouldn't get a job even though it's not what he teaches. It's nkthing personal, it's about being an example and knowing taht kids read what you write so they can actually pick these mistakes up because "Mr X writes it like that so it's correct, isn't it?"