Eachother is not a word!

[LaPerduta]

These are not words either:

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

Call me unreasonable if you like...

Kerb, curb, Kurb, cerb.

Curb your enthusiasm
The car was parked on the kerb.

If you're trying to make a verb plural, then a mistaken apostrophe is the least of your problems.

Have you come across Muphry? @follyfoot37 ?

@TimeForTeaAndG a lot of my family live in South Shields. 'Yous' or 'Yeezys'

@BernadetteIsMySister

ibsee it frequently on MN. It makes me 😂 but I always think that people needing or being told they should get some respite care have bigger things to be worrying about!

it just makes me🤣because I wonder if they really think it's rest bite & why or if they realise it's respite, but are unsure of how to spell it?

Or just have naughty phones like mine?

Could care less instead of couldn't care less and brought instead of bought, drives me potty!

@NameChange647

I'd put good money on that being an iPhone!!

No, aswell is not a word.

Do people not look words up in a dictionary any more, rather than relying on the autocorrect function on their phone?

I'm afraid led is very much a word. However it's the past tense of "to lead", not "to lie", as in, "I led the horse to water."

I remember being corrected for making that mistake. In Primary 1.

Precisely LaPerduta thanks for the clarification.

use the word correctly please people.

I lead (the race), I lie (on the bed), I lay (the table)

I led, I lay, I laid

I have led, I have lain, I have laid

I am leading, I am lying, I am laying

You're very welcome!

Such ashame.

I always read it as if it's French. "Non."

Like your apostrophe key?

I'm still trying to come to terms with the increasing use of alright, which seems to have taken over from all right even in formal writing.

When I was growing up it was always any more. Now it seems to be anymore. This confuses me.

But the mistake that I hate most is people always insisting on saying, for example, “DP and I” when they should be saying “DP and me.”

“The house belongs to DP and I.”
When it should be “the house belongs to DP and me.”

Heard Kate Garraway do a classic one like this on telly the other day and you just think well if a journalist can’t grasp this, what hope is there?

any more and anymore have different meanings.

Do they? Can you explain @SecondhandMuck as I don’t get it!

anymore refers to time 'I won't be working there anymore'

any more refers to quantity 'I don't want any more chips'.

Thanks - I never knew this! I can’t ever remember being taught the one word version, only ever used two words all the time.

On the "definitely" and "defiantly" thing. Many people in the west of Scotland pronounce the word deff-inn-ATE-ly rather than DEFF-in-it-ly. So they way they say it, it sounds as if there's the letter "A" in there somewhere.

So they type "definately" and the software autocorrects.

less and fewer is a fad with no basis in grammar. Within for in is one I currently come across a lot

I think 'I could care less' is one of those things that has established itself as an acceptable variant by force of habit, like 'another thing coming'. A lot of these 'wrong' things come about because of people hypercorrecting - they assume that it must be 'another thing coming' because 'think' isn't a noun (although it can be), or that 'I couldn't care less' must e wrong because we all get told not to use double negatives. The 'send it to X and I' thing is similar - we get told it's not 'me and X', but 'X and I', and forget or aren't aware (because nobody explains cases to English natuve speakers) that there's a subject/object difference. Looked at it from that POV, it's prescriptivism eating itself.