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To be getting fed up with "boarders"

221 replies

joystir59 · 04/04/2021 22:57

...which are not children sleeping in school dorms rather than going home at the end of the school day; but the boundaries between countries, the correct word for which is borders. Borders!!!! Anyone else sick of boarders?

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STARmyarse · 04/04/2021 22:58

YANBU!!!!!! Can’t stand this

littlepattilou · 04/04/2021 22:58

Stop moaning, and go buy a chester draws. Grin

ViciousJackdaw · 04/04/2021 23:00

Solidarity! When they talk of 'closing the boarders', I wonder what on earth Darrell Rivers did to get them so wound up? Mind you, she did always have a temper...

DramaAlpaca · 04/04/2021 23:01

YANBU and you are quite right. Most annoying.

Have you had a look at Pedants' Corner? You'd be right at home there Wink

VestaTilley · 04/04/2021 23:19

YANBU!

An MP in a Commons debate actually used the word “pacific” instead of “specific” the other day. Appalled.

Devlesko · 04/04/2021 23:24

@VestaTilley

YANBU!

An MP in a Commons debate actually used the word “pacific” instead of “specific” the other day. Appalled.

Sounds like Priti Patel. Practically illiterate.
SchrodingersImmigrant · 04/04/2021 23:26

Defiantly, OP!

Mumblechum0 · 04/04/2021 23:27

Also, I reckon at least 30% of TripAdvisor reviewers are bolshy. They’d defiantly recommend this hotel/restaurant.

Mumblechum0 · 04/04/2021 23:27

@Schrodinger x posted!

DioneTheDiabolist · 04/04/2021 23:28

Word.✊

Topseyt · 04/04/2021 23:29

I can't stick this either.

I've even seen someone write about their dog saying that it was a boarder collie. No! It isn't. It is a BORDER collie.

FlibbertyGiblets · 04/04/2021 23:29

Yeah close are boarders , Borris.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 04/04/2021 23:31

Funny thing.
If you try to search "boarders" on twitter, it shows tweets with borders and boarders.

And if you go on Argos site and search "chester draws" it shows chests of drawers

Cadent · 04/04/2021 23:32

@joystir59

...which are not children sleeping in school dorms rather than going home at the end of the school day; but the boundaries between countries, the correct word for which is borders. Borders!!!! Anyone else sick of boarders?
What a long-winded way of saying you don’t like borders being misspelled as boarders.

I hate convoluted posts like these.

Mumblechum0 · 04/04/2021 23:32

Also, aloud, as in, are we aloud to do that 🙄

Missdread · 04/04/2021 23:33

My kids love Pepper Pig! 😬😬

Missdread · 04/04/2021 23:34

Plus, "Generally, I thought I was going to die!" 🥴🥴

SchrodingersImmigrant · 04/04/2021 23:35

@Missdread

My kids love Pepper Pig! 😬😬
I am sure I saw that on BBC good food🙈

Adorable

Pottedpalm · 04/04/2021 23:35

Curb, when they mean kerb. I have seen that several times lately.

Mucklemore · 04/04/2021 23:52

But I'm so grateful we don't have to listen to "bregsit" all the time.

I used to find myself screaming at the radio - there's no fucking G morons.

Tartyflette · 05/04/2021 00:18

And I give you 'expresso'.
Although i think we have already lost on this one.

Lineofconcepcion · 05/04/2021 00:20

'Should of' drives me mad.

GreenlandTheMovie · 05/04/2021 00:38

Its weird. Where did it come from?

I know literally not one non-native English speaker who makes this error.

How can people not tell that its a completely different word for a completely different thing?

Worse still, I live near the English border with Scotland, and was subjected to various attacks on FB during the worst of the pandemic insisting "the boarders closed". When I regularly cross "the border" to go to my nearest supermarket. In fact, I can walk across it. No police, bored or otherwise.

ShurelyNot · 05/04/2021 00:40

"Text" instead of "texted". Aaaargh

ErrolTheDragon · 05/04/2021 00:41

@Pottedpalm

Curb, when they mean kerb. I have seen that several times lately.
Actually 'curb' is a valid alternative for 'kerb', and the usual spelling in the US. But 'kerb' can only be the 'edge of the pavement', not the other meanings of curb.