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Eachother is not a word!

153 replies

LaPerduta · 23/03/2023 18:06

These are not words either:

Inbetween
Infront
Alot
Loosing (unless you're loosing the hounds)
Non

Call me unreasonable if you like...

OP posts:
Rosula · 24/03/2023 07:53

Been when they mean being.

follyfoot37 · 24/03/2023 07:54

Starryskiesinthesky · 24/03/2023 07:23

In Scotland outwith IS a word eg they live outwith the catchment area. Means out of.

Yes, outwith is an English wword too - 'it was outwith the scope of the project...'
But not so commonly used nowadays
I used the term 'abroad' in a report and several people did not realise it can just mean 'not local' as wellnas overseas

follyfoot37 · 24/03/2023 07:55

GayforMoleman · 23/03/2023 23:41

My current favourite is "the end is neigh" - a Facebook comment in response to a post about alert systems on mobile phones being tested by the government.
I’m sure the horses will enjoy their takeover.

Reign and rein confuse the fuck out of people too

LaughingSomnambulist · 24/03/2023 07:55

*Gradually, a long time ago, it changed…

Sorry. New phone and the comma quick key on this phone is a full stop. I keep forgetting and still using that key!

Doesthepopeshitinthewoods · 24/03/2023 07:55

Plumbear2 · 24/03/2023 07:02

Aphasia, stroke, dyslexia. All these can affect the way people write ( 2 also affect speech) but so long as it makes OP sounds clever that's all that matters right?

I think people just being a bit thick is considerably more likely then everyone on Facebook being afflicted with neurological conditions.

PhotoDad · 24/03/2023 08:06

LaughingSomnambulist · 24/03/2023 07:53

Oh, that is actually interesting. There are a lot of words which have totally changed because of this happening. I can’t remember lots of them without looking it up but I think one is apron.

The word was actually napron. A napron. Gradually. A long time ago. It changed from a napron to an apron and now we all say apron.

There are a lot of those.

My favourite of these is "an orange" which started as "a norange" and then also became the colour word for that fruit! (Spanish: naranja. Arabic naranj)

BreviloquentBastard · 24/03/2023 08:08

follyfoot37 · 24/03/2023 07:02

No, there's no excuse!
And he used '...and I'm like...' noooooo!

Wow you're a really boring joyless person.

follyfoot37 · 24/03/2023 08:14

BreviloquentBastard · 24/03/2023 08:08

Wow you're a really boring joyless person.

Because I think punctuation and grammar are important ant I don't like speech littered with 'like'?
But why with argue or explain to stupid?

Butchyrestingface · 24/03/2023 08:17

uhOhOP · 23/03/2023 22:47

And when two words get hyphenated for some bizarre reason. I think I understand why people do it, but I hate that they do it. I can't think of any of the really good examples I've seen, though.

I hyphenate ALL THE WORDS in essays when there's a word count limit and I've gone over it. 😬

As well as removing all the "that/s".

CoffeeChocolateWine · 24/03/2023 08:20

PeriwinkleForever · 24/03/2023 07:52

Good spot @CoffeeChocolateWine my kindred spirit! Can you tell I was just lying in bed randomly trying to think of a last example for the list!?

thanks for catching that one. I’ll now be beating myself up all day about that - the shame 🤣

😆

WeCome1 · 24/03/2023 08:22

uhOhOP · 24/03/2023 05:11

"His" instead of "he's"... 🙄

I saw this the other way round the other day. 😫

uptheantrimcoast · 24/03/2023 08:24

Chester Draws

...no, just no.

Annoyingwurringnoise · 24/03/2023 08:31

I feel that way aswell

jay55 · 24/03/2023 08:38

Inbetween just makes sense. It should be a word.

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welshpolarbear · 24/03/2023 08:45

@Tropicaliyes

Thisismeyeah
Your smart. Youve learnt me something new today

Someone cannot learn you something.. They have “Taught” you something.

learning is something you do, not what someone else does for you. You can “learn something new today” however if someone has made you aware of something you never previously knew, then they taught you, not “learnt” you.

@Thisismeyeah was JOKING! Jeez!

Annoyingwurringnoise · 24/03/2023 08:52

Oh, my son showed me one the other day.

FOR SALE Coughing, 6ft2 long. Selling due to wrong diagnosis.

MarchMadness23 · 24/03/2023 08:58

RobertaFirmino · 24/03/2023 00:21

I can see this is really getting to you. You need rest bite.

That one makes me laugh though 😂

@welshpolarbear it was perfectly obvious you was joking!

Yants · 24/03/2023 09:02

I've never established if aswell is a word of not?

Sometimes autocorrect separates it and other times not?

DashboardConfessional · 24/03/2023 09:07

I'm waiting for the avalanche of posters who like to chip in saying there's no such thing as "wrong" words and grammar, because language is always evolving and they know a professor from Cambridge who agrees with them.

MarchMadness23 · 24/03/2023 09:13

MarchMadness23 · 24/03/2023 08:58

That one makes me laugh though 😂

@welshpolarbear it was perfectly obvious you was joking!

Urgh this quoting keeps catching me out

@welshpolarbear

i fink I meant it was obvious @Thisismeyeah was joking!

@LaPerduta for me it's the fact that people use non & none incorrectly.

uhOhOP · 24/03/2023 09:25

PeriwinkleForever · 24/03/2023 07:25

This is the only bit of this full thread I disagree with. I have a huge issue with people who don’t hyphenate when they should. For example when they are joining two words to form a compound adjective. This is the difference between a sentence making sense and otherwise.

her first-born child
the world-class athlete
that award-winning film
the second-rate actor
those locally-grown apples

I'm not talking about compounds. I'm talking about, for example, if somebody writes "each-other". As I said, I know why people do it – when the two words are spoken they kind of run into each other. It's like a different version of writing two words without a space between them – "abit", "alot", "infront".

FrogsWormsandButterflies · 24/03/2023 09:28

Bodybags · 24/03/2023 07:25

Led. No led is not a word. Led in bed. No. Just no.
neither is chestadraws.

These are the 2 I came to add. LED especially winds me up.

PeriwinkleForever · 24/03/2023 09:32

uhOhOP · 24/03/2023 09:25

I'm not talking about compounds. I'm talking about, for example, if somebody writes "each-other". As I said, I know why people do it – when the two words are spoken they kind of run into each other. It's like a different version of writing two words without a space between them – "abit", "alot", "infront".

Stop please @uhOhOP - this is too painful. I hate that too. Shudder.

NetballHoop · 24/03/2023 09:34

Annoyingwurringnoise · 24/03/2023 08:52

Oh, my son showed me one the other day.

FOR SALE Coughing, 6ft2 long. Selling due to wrong diagnosis.

Ha ha. That's reminded me of this:

It's not the cough that carries you off
It's the coffin they carries you off in