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?

Discrete/discreet. I hate these being used interchangeably. They mean completely different things!

@QuentininQuarantino

Less and less people seem to have a grasp of countables and uncountables these days. I guess there’s fewer importance placed on grammar.

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Stationary/stationery
Complimentary/ complementary
Lose/loose
Practise/practice
License/licence
Boarder/border
And my real pet hate which I’m so sick of seeing

They’re/ their/ there

And immigration/emigration

They should defiantly tow the line on boarders.

But then, I’m bias.

Oh I can't stand to hear
" He was drawring a picture" Ahhh, there's no R in drawing.

Someone on my Facebook always writes "carnt" 🤯
Too many animals are malting, and I "carnt" stand the way people put an extra r into words like drawing - it's not drawring! And it's not JessicaRennis and the dog food is not BellaRand Duke! They even sing about Bellarand Duke on the advert and it makes me shout at the TV 😂

@Glitterblue

Someone on my Facebook always writes "carnt" 🤯 Too many animals are malting, and I "carnt" stand the way people put an extra r into words like drawing - it's not drawring! And it's not JessicaRennis and the dog food is not BellaRand Duke! They even sing about Bellarand Duke on the advert and it makes me shout at the TV 😂

It's called intrusive R and about 50% of worldwide native speakers of English use it.

@Nelia5

Rest in piece my angle....every time

Just spat my tea out ! 🤣🤣🤣

Affect/effect.
One is a verb, the other is a noun.

Local dialect swaps 'was' and 'were' as in
"I were going", "They/we was going" 😱

Phased when they mean 'fazed'

@QuentininQuarantino

Less and less people seem to have a grasp of countables and uncountables these days. I guess there’s fewer importance placed on grammar.

I was just messaging M&S about something and thought I'd point out their fewer/less confusion on much of their website

Discrete and discreet being used incorrectly is happening more frequently. I saw discrete used on an upmarket estate agent's website the other day. Apparently they offered a discrete service to clients.

@Pottedpalm

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

It can be spelt either war when referring to the edge of the pavement.

@CharityDingle

What about tennants?

Well they could be talking about David and Neil, and forgot the capital T.

Useless fact of the day.....David Tennant couldn't use his real surname....i think there must have been someone else with the same name in Equity or something, and it's against Equity rules. He "borrowed" the name Tennant from Neil Tennant.

Rather serendipitously, there's quite a long thread about the discrete use of less instead of fewer (with countables) in Pedants' Corner (quite a while back now, before it was taken over by threads taking the piss out of other people's SPaG) David Crystal also has an interesting article on it.

@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!)

You've just used one of my pet hates! No need for a space after the bracket when you open a parentheses. Just look in any book or newspaper - no space!

A friend of mine wrote “walla” on her FB crafting posts and I thought it was a young person word for ages until I realised it was “voila!”

Back to "boarder".

Do you think users actually pronounce it "boarder"?

Curb is the North American spelling. We are in the UK.
So kerb is correct.

@GreenlandTheMovie

Back to "boarder".

Do you think users actually pronounce it "boarder"?

As opposed to?

ˈbɔː(r)də(r)= boarder
ˈbɔː(r)də(r)= border

Oxford English Dictionary.

Effect/affect and reigns/ reins bug me but the one that really sets my teeth on edge is bridal path instead of bridle path. I always end up with an image of a confetti strewn path with bows in the hedge.

@Pottedpalm

Curb is the North American spelling. We are in the UK. So kerb is correct.

Examination boards accept both UK and US spelling (obviously) Though it's important to be consistent.

‘Accept’ as in ‘don’t penalise’? Doesn't make it correct.
They accept ‘eyesossiles’ instead of ‘isosceles, but that’s not correct either.