to tell you it is downright and not "damn right"?!

[Needanewhat]

As in, "she was being downright rude" NOT "she was being damn right rude".

I see this one all the time on Facebook groups at the moment and it's silently doing my head in. Why?!

I noticed the other day that my spellchecker on Word thinks 'anymore' is one word and doesn't like it as two.

Would have thought it could be both, as in “we don’t do that anymore” and “is there any more tea in the pot?”

Fault or fort instead of thought is something I've seen regularly. I'm not sure if it's done intentionally, though.

Thank you for “excepting me” is one that annoys me and is all too common.

It cracks me up there will always be someone baying about Americanisation of language. As if language hasn't changed and evolved constantly over time. It's just make the people saying this look daft, especially as they're trying to be smug, bit embarrassing really.

One I've noticed recently is "been" instead of "being".

E.g., my husband was been very rude about my new coat. Do you think I'm been too sensitive?

"oh I'm defiantly going to primark today"

Instead of definitely.

Gives me rage.

Waaallaah? Really? I would never have worked out what that's supposed to be, thank you.

Yes. See also "another think coming", not thing

Another think coming is the older phrase and the one that actually makes sense. Thing is either an eggcorn or based on people thinking you can't use think as a noun like that.

Well perhaps they are defiantly marching to Primark in a rebellious fashion, despite being told by everyone not to go?

@Needanewhat

The "damn right" that prompted this thread was from a woman posting about her misbehaving child.

"She is damn right naughty!"

Damn right she is naughty is fine. She is downright naughty is also fine.

She is damn right naughty is not. Damn right isn’t an adjective.

@smittenkittten

Thank you for “excepting me” is one that annoys me and is all too common.

I draft formal documents for a living and my literacy needs to be almost faultless but I've very occasionally used 'accepting' instead of 'excepting'.

I bet I could beat everyone here in a spelling bee though.

@NinjaJunkie

Americanisation

No it is not.

@CounsellorTroi

I noticed the other day that my spellchecker on Word thinks 'anymore' is one word and doesn't like it as two.

Would have thought it could be both, as in “we don’t do that anymore” and “is there any more tea in the pot?”

I was always of the view that it's (still) two words in both senses.

This suggests you and I are both right (which is a very satisfactory outcome IMO )

writingexplained.org/anymore-vs-any-more-difference

Interesting piece thank you!

There's a girl on my Facebook who seems to have problems on a daily basis while driving, and feels the need to post huge rants about them on her social media. Instead of 'it was my right of way' she says 'it was my right away' and it drives me up the wall. The worst thing is, she's a lawyer specialising in road traffic accidents.

I see ‘alot’ of missing spaces ‘aswell.’ The latter was written in an email by my DC’s form tutor. Her other annoying habit is the incorrect use of reflexives, as in ‘what is the phone number for yourself?’

The reflexives thing really winds me up because it tends to be done when people want to adopt an elevated tone. They try to sound important and superior and instead Make themselves sound like a bit of a knob.

Oh, and ‘definately.’

I don't really get annoyed at SPAG errors, but I was watching the World's Most Evil Killers and I was a bit annoyed at the errors in the serial killer's letters. Apoint etc

At work I saw a copy of a letter that had gone out from the very top of the office which started “Myself and my Directors...”. I was aghast.

I think with 'defiantly' for 'definitely' it's because some has spelt it incorrectly as 'definately', and autocorrect has changed it to 'defiantly' rather than 'definitely'.

Maybe.

I say the word downright a lot so this word isn’t a real word?

Downright is definitely a word: defiantly! 😂

@MissScotland101

I say the word downright a lot so this word isn’t a real word?

Duh! I just realised that the words damn right are wrong and downright is correct! Lol.

Sometimes I would say damn right though in certain situations, or sometimes I use the saying damn straight which is very American.

My pet hate is every day and everyday being mixed up. Every day is an adverbial phrase telling you when or how often something happens. The sun rises every day; A&E is open all day, every day.

Everyday is an adjective describing commonplace, routine things: everyday clothing, everyday sexism. 😕

A posh hotel near me advertises ruinously expensive, branded afternoon teas with a roadside board boasting "Open everyday". I always want to get a .22 and pepper the sign but so far I haven't.

@Gymsmile21

Could of is just a progression in language. It’s shorter so more commonly used.

It will get to a point where we just say letters soon of the first word in a sentence and you have to guess the rest 😂

I thought people saying 'could of' was more a case of them mishearing or misunderstanding, thinking that could've meant could of instead of could have? Seeing as it more or less sounds the same.

But yeah, 'could of' really annoys me!

@NewlyGranny

My pet hate is every day and everyday being mixed up. Every day is an adverbial phrase telling you when or how often something happens. The sun rises every day; A&E is open all day, every day.

Everyday is an adjective describing commonplace, routine things: everyday clothing, everyday sexism. 😕

A posh hotel near me advertises ruinously expensive, branded afternoon teas with a roadside board boasting "Open everyday". I always want to get a .22 and pepper the sign but so far I haven't.

Thanks for the grammar lesson as I didn’t know the differences between everyday and every day!

Seen and saw get me mixed up and I googled the differences but I still didn’t quite get it...my brain is in a fog.