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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?

OP posts:
TristantheTyrannosaurus · 05/04/2021 00:44

Borrow instead of lend or loan.

NoNotHimTheOtherOne · 05/04/2021 00:45

Bare with them. Their loosing there ability to spell.

I await the outcome of this thread with baited breath.

GreenlandTheMovie · 05/04/2021 00:48

I await the outcome of this thread with baited breath.

You mean breathe.

Grin
ErrolTheDragon · 05/04/2021 00:48

@TristantheTyrannosaurus

Borrow instead of lend or loan.
That one isn't new - it's so commonplace as to be almost dialect in parts of the country, I think.
junebirthdaygirl · 05/04/2021 00:50

You are in my taughts !!
See this all the time now. Drives me crazy

User97531 · 05/04/2021 00:55

Saw keep 'carm' today.. that was a new one for me!

JovialNickname · 05/04/2021 01:01

Bare with me. I have to resist the urge to flash my tits at the screen when I see this

WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo · 05/04/2021 01:07

I have serious deja vu reading this thread. So much so so that I actually checked the date on it thinking it was a resurrected zombie!

Taikoo · 05/04/2021 01:18

Also - alot.

CharityDingle · 05/04/2021 01:29

What about tennants? Grin

MistyGreenAndBlue · 05/04/2021 01:33

Oh your write. I can't bare it.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 05/04/2021 01:35

But yanno... Smelling piftakes are a prat of leif.

Cloe78 · 05/04/2021 01:39

Que.
no. It's queue. QueUE

steff13 · 05/04/2021 01:42

Now, now, OP, don't loose your cool. 😁

Somanysocks · 05/04/2021 01:57

Ect ect...

grownup2 · 05/04/2021 02:01

What I brought at the shops. Weird but seems to be infectious.

Hollyhobbi · 05/04/2021 02:06

@Cloe78 don't you mean Cue or Q both of which I have seen recently! Or I was sat or I was stood! No you weren't, you were sitting or standing or you sat or stood! My kids say this one a lot, which I blame US TV shows for: I done it or I'm done. No you did it or you finished whatever it was you were doing!

Ginuwine · 05/04/2021 04:54

Every time I see a weight loss thread I inwardly tense because I know I'm about to see this

"It's hard enough trying to loose the weight without someone criticising you. Every one thinks it's easy to loose weight in their 40s until they try"

Ponoka7 · 05/04/2021 05:18

@Hollyhobbi
@TristantheTyrannosaurus

There's a valid argument for colloquialisms being acceptable in informal writing. Likewise people writing in their dialect. Our comprehension skills should be of a standard that we can understand what's being written. Punctuation changes meaning, but not the odd incorrect word/spelling.

CatsBooksAndCoffee · 05/04/2021 05:31

😂 This thread is truely hilarious

punkingscissors · 05/04/2021 06:07

@VestaTilley

YANBU!

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

Name and shame !
BlackCatShadow · 05/04/2021 06:14

Here, here, OP!!

Mummyoflittledragon · 05/04/2021 06:15

I’d rilly like to give you a peace of my mind!

pictish · 05/04/2021 06:58

Should of
Would of
Could of

This is my hill to die on.
HAVE ffs. It makes sense see?

ladyandthechocolate · 05/04/2021 07:07

“We are selling our 4 birth caravan. In good condition, regularly serviced”
I see this all the time and always have a mental image of babies being born in caravans.

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