To be getting fed up with "boarders"

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...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?

I am actually surprised at how much I read on MN about teachers making mistakes like their/there, of/have and other basics. Is it really that common or is it just amplified here? I always thought that teachers must have high standard of English.

The argument is often that they're off duty, it's only a forum and therefore unimportant and of course they get it right at work...

To my mind, if you know the right way, you'd automatically do it that way.

I wonder if there's a market out there to offer to correct edit people's business Facebook pages and websites for them

I think, as in all professions, the fact that you're good at one thing, doesn't necessarily mean you're good at others. Rightly or wrongly.

Oh, I get that. We all suck in something. But considering teachers are massive influence for kids, I guess I expected harsher standards. I don't remember any of my teachers making mistakes in absolute basics when they were in a classroom or in school communications.
I would remember, my father was pedant and kept correcting stuff😂

Maybe it is the teaching. As with the Dutch example, we had grammar, grammar, grammar. Memorise, test, memorise more, test. It's how we learned ours and foreign languages. Interesting to hear the differences between teaching styles.

The argument is often that they're off duty, it's only a forum and therefore unimportant and of course they get it right at work...

To my mind, if you know the right way, you'd automatically do it that way.

I agree. If you know the right word, grammar etc it’s harder to get it wrong than right.

Faecal alcohol syndrome made me laugh. Sorry as the actual syndrome isn’t funny and the rebadged one is disgusting

Gardiner (with a capital G) and weary instead of wary

Just seen yuwa for you are on another thread🤯

My nearest garden centre has signs up alongside plants advising on their suitability for boarders. Been doing it for years. I pointed it out politely once but they've never done anything about it, even though they print new signs each year/season.

Can I offer to renumerate you, instead of remunerate. I hear this one in work frequently - even by senior people.

I’ll just have the cash, thanks

@Whosthebestbabainalltheworld

Can I offer to renumerate you, instead of remunerate. I hear this one in work frequently - even by senior people.

I’ll just have the cash, thanks

That one isn't new!

www.lexico.com/definition/renumerate

Took me a minute, I've had wine lol but YES!
Agree lol

Borders.
Countries tend to have them.

Boarders.
People who sleep at boarding school.

I'm board
No you're not!! You're not literally a plank of wood. Unless you are, which would account for your spelling

Formally instead of formerly.

People writing i.e when they mean e.g

Schrodinger "I would remember, my father was pedant and kept correcting stuff"
I think you mean "a pedant" or "pedantic"

I’m on tenderhooks to hear more egg samples of these, though I hope won’t mind if I arks you to be pacific.

Tenderhooks😖

The phrase tenterhooks comes from fabric being stretched under tension on a stenter frame. Not a stender frame😖

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Tenderhooks😖

The phrase tenterhooks comes from fabric being stretched under tension on a stenter frame. Not a stender frame😖

Tenter frame. Back in the day tenters were workers in weaving mills.

It’s a stenter or a tenter. It’s what gives fabric the little holes on the selvedge.

www.textileflowchart.com/2015/04/flow-chart-of-stentering-process.html

[quote ArseInTheCoOpWindow]It’s a stenter or a tenter. It’s what gives fabric the little holes on the selvedge.

www.textileflowchart.com/2015/04/flow-chart-of-stentering-process.html[/quote]
Thank you. I'd only heard of tenter before. Hence tenterhooks.

I can't spell to save my life. I'm dyslexic, and really struggle with grammar, but one I keep seeing on here at the moment is past instead of passed. It's sticks out like a sore thumb everytime I read it.

I've just seen someone write "afto watch what you say these days" on a Facebook comment

Whosthebestbabainalltheworld

Can I offer to renumerate you, instead of remunerate. I hear this one in work frequently - even by senior people.

I’ll just have the cash, thanks grin

i don't understand what's wrong with this

Oh, got it.