To be getting fed up with "boarders"

[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?

[pictish]

God yes...berth you berks. You own a caravan, you should know this basic term.

[Nelia5]

Rest in piece my angle....every time

[tabctrlnoanykey]

SHOPPING ISLE

drops the mic

[0blio]

I don't care if curb is a valid word, when you're in the UK and referring to the edge of the pavement it's kerb.

And again in the UK it's driving licence not license.

[Seymour5]

He was lead away. All the time. No he wasn't, he was led. He might however have been in the lead when he was led.

[Nith]

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

I don't thing it is a valid argument on a parents' website. Our children are in a system where their test and exam results will be adversely affected by poor grammar and spelling, so really it is all the more important that parents set the best example possible.

[Nith]

Rediculous.

It's ridiculous that people think this is correct. It's not as if it's pronounced that way.

[DropBearThere]

Yeah I’m bored with borders too

[metellaestinatrio]

@VestaTilley

YANBU!

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

I had an English teacher who did this! Perhaps she also taught said MP...

[skodadoda]

I am loathe to 😤

[Fkrkrodps]

Writing ‘none’ when it should be ‘non’. It’s rare now that I see ‘non’.

[NotATomato]

Your getting so worked up about this.

[Geamhradh]

@Mucklemore

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.

Actually, in fast speech, many people pronounce /breksit/ as /bregsit/ and it's a perfectly correct way to say it. It's to do with unvoiced consonants becoming their voiced counterparts when they fall in specific positions in a word or utterance.

[SchrodingersImmigrant]

@GreenlandTheMovie

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.

I know a handful. 2 went to uni. Also use defiantly and pacific.1 I know uses "of".
Funnily the two people with the best English are not "highly educated". 1 has just basic GCSES and 1 scraped through A-levels. Their English is amazing! Especially one is just amazingly articulate. They had personal issues at the time so the exams took a hit.

My English is by far not perfect, but I think I manage these basics (🤞 at least I hope so).

[Geamhradh]

@Nith

Rediculous.

It's ridiculous that people think this is correct. It's not as if it's pronounced that way.

It's because the first "I" in "ridiculous" isn't stressed, so is often given the weak vowel schwa pronunciation.
Over time, the spelling might well adapt too. It won't be in our lifetime though.

[BreatheAndFocus]

‘Weary’ when they mean ‘wary’ 😡
“There’s no street-lights in that road so I’m weary about going up it”

People in the U.K. suddenly calling the woman who has been ‘Mum’ all of their life ‘Mom’.

I’ve also seen dogs in ads described as ”non-malting” and puppies as home-bread!

[Geamhradh]

@WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo

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!

Well, tbf, the last thread like this was only on Saturday.

[Geamhradh]

@BreatheAndFocus

‘Weary’ when they mean ‘wary’ 😡
“There’s no street-lights in that road so I’m weary about going up it”

People in the U.K. suddenly calling the woman who has been ‘Mum’ all of their life ‘Mom’.

I’ve also seen dogs in ads described as ”non-malting” and puppies as home-bread!

People in the west Midlands (among other areas) have always used "mom".

[missfliss]

These make me weary:

Birth when they mean berth ( tents / caravans)

Bare when the mean bear ( can't bear it)

Aloud when they mean allowed ( are we allowed)

Here when they mean hear ( hear hear!)

[Foxyloxy1plus1]

I belong to online craft groups. So many people ask what colour they should do their boarders.

I noticed yesterday, that an advert for Google, has curb side deliveries. Wouldn’t you think someone from the advertising agency would proof read?

[PurplePansy05]

I'm with you, OP. Also "brought" instead of "bought" makes me rage inside!

[lynsey91]

My village facebook page contains so many spelling mistakes. It makes me more angry than it should.

I have logged in this morning to see "a tabby cat has appeared in my garden, had anyone lost there's?"

A couple of days ago someone said a cat was causing "havark"!

[SchrodingersImmigrant]

Just want to say that the UK vs US spelling, as annoying as it can be for natives, is REALLY hard to deal with sometimes 🙈
Many non natives learned on combination of textbooks and a TV. Most things on TV are American so you get it in your ear.
I am consciously trying to say UK "either" whenever I can but it still comes out US way usually. Same for spelling. Most books I had in English when I was younger were from American writers.

Have mercy on us😂

[user1493494961]

We need to reign it in.

[SuperintendentHastings]

I saw a post on FB recently when someone was 'affended' by someone else's post. I mean, for the love of God ...