AIBU to say it's not "ect"

[IceCreamWoes]

I've seen about 8 threads in the last 2 days with posters writing ect when they obviously mean etc. I probably am being U but it really does irrationally fucking irritate me!

I need to get out more, yes. I've had two (big) glasses of wine 😂.

So, am I?

Can't read whole thread, but my personal gripe is "on accident". I work with kids and it's all I hear!

I'm a proofreader, and I recognise that most people these days are almost completely illiterate and I move on.

Outside of work, there is a consensus among most that we must never correct spelling and grammar in those over 10 or get utterly derided for it. Those who should be corrected can just go on looking like fools, as far as I care any more.

I do my job and get paid really handsomely for it because people who can spell and use grammar properly are very much in the minority these days.

I’m a ‘different from’ 😀

I don't get too irritated by most of the examples given but get irrationally annoyed by " full fat Coke " . There is no fat in Cola .

Yes, when did this one start? I'm secondary and it's only been about the last three years. Suddenly, ALL the children say, "I did it on accident!" (Except those who read a lot.)

How did your parents never explain this to your sibling?

Did you learn it at school and your parents were none the wiser?

We speak and listen a lot more than we read and write. It is the poor grammar in speaking which grates on me the most because I hear it frequently.

• My 40+ stepdaughter says ‘Egnore’ not ‘Ignore’. I said to DH ‘For God’s sake, why hasn’t anyone ever corrected her!’
• people who say ‘was you’ when they are trying to be very correct 😀
• A school secretary who always said ‘I’ve RANG…’ As it was part of her job to ring people frequently, I had to cringe frequently. I wish someone had told her because she was the butt of jokes ‘ Maybe Shirley has RANG her’ ‘ Don’t tell me Shirley hasn’t RANG!’ It was a shame because she was a very nice person.

Either is preferable to 'different than'.

It’s said as a joke. Most people saying it know it is sugar they are talking about. It’s just a play on full fat milk, and it trips off the tongue more easily than “full sugar”.

there's always a debate on here, over whether it's Pedants Corner or Pedant's Corner. I didn't 'miss' an apostrophe, I chose not to use one

No there isn't, there's no debate either grammatically or as a matter of observed reality. It's Pedants' Corner. If this thread was on the correct board you'd be able to see that.

And it is Etc. And not etc.

Tried for a clever response, but not clever enough to know that gotten isn't an Americanism...

So you and your friends where taking the piss out of a someone you say is a nice person. You sound great, maybe before judging others you should look at yourself

It's "needs to be done". "Needs doing" and "needs done" are both used informally in different regions. Needs doing is just as wrong as needs done, it's just more familiar to you, presumably because of where you live and/or grew up.

It's Pedants' Corner so you chose to put the apostrophe in the wrong place.
There's no debate to be had about it as it's a simple rule.

There is a choice to be pleasant or unpleasant though. The OP was neither mean nor bitchy.

Oh, excellent!

I would be judging so hard if any parent in my DC's class was slagging off the school secretary because of the way she speaks. What utter dicks.

Think it might be archaic English that we exported, stopped using and then object to when we get it back. Like Halloween.

Complaining about dialectical constructs and regional variations in pronunciation is its own form of ignorance.

Kerb and curb.

One of my (too many) pet irritants is incorrect plurals of words ending in y - so people write baby’s, family’s, party’s, etc.

They’re enough to make anyone despair at the standard of English language teaching in our schools.

@verityrosa this has a really simple answer.

It is never ever correct to say “I seen”.

Or “he seen”, “we seen” or “they seen”.

You can only use “seen” with have, has or had in front of it.

It is, but it also never left Ireland, most (?) of Scotland and parts of England. If you read someone from the UK or Ireland using "gotten", they're probably doing so because they've always used it as have their parents and grandparents. Not because it's been reimported.

Lose/loose.

I want to loose weight....
I cant seem to loose weight....

All over the weightloss threads (obviously!)

Drives me nuts.

I’ve screen shot this to remind myself, thank you so much!

I received an email from an English teacher at a grammar school that ended the message with 'if you have any queries, contact myself on ..,'