Spelling and grammar bug bears

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My husband always says "can you borrow me whatever"

Aaaaaaaaaarg

I always reply, "no but you may borrow it dear, I shall happily lend you it" in my best Queen Elizabeth accent 🤣🤣

We have a behaviour management system at school to log incidents and lots of teachers write, ‘He was consistently talking over me’ when they mean ‘constantly’. I have to mutter under my breath

My MIL will talk about 'learning' the children how to do something. Sets my teeth on edge.

I was saying that could have etc irritate me because I know it should be “have” in each case. My additional point was that even my phone knows they are wrong. I had to reverse the autocorrect in order to make my post. I was not being sarcastic; I’m genuinely grateful to Apple if they can reduce the number of ofs that I see.

My grammar and spelling are pretty good. I count my blessings for my good fortune and privilege rather than seek to find fault with others to show how clever I am. And I make some quite ridiculous errors when typing on a phone, or even on my laptop.

Also I use some Mancunian regional dialect terms in speech and informal writing. If that bothers anyone, tough, it's part of my identity and in spite of living in the south east for 25 years, I am not going to be subsumed by the boring middle class generic southern English hegemony.

Aaaaaaargh. When I edited this post it autocorrected the first “of” to “have” to make it nonsensical. It should read - “could of etc irritate me”. I wish I had never started this.

Spelling 'off' as 'of'.

I see a lot of 'everyday' instead of 'every day' - There is a difference!

I have a lot more tolerance for not using full stops in abbreviations. Let's face it, how many threads on Mumsnet don't have MIL, omg, LOL or similar in them somewhere. They are all abbreviations of longer words. Does capitalizing the letters make it ok to forego the full stops?

Also applesauce instead of apple sauce annoys the pants off me for some reason

My grammar and spelling are pretty good. I count my blessings for my good fortune and privilege rather than seek to find fault with others to show how clever I am.

Same here. I'm a languages teacher - I know very well how much harder it is for some people than others to use correct SPAG. I think there's a big difference between light-heartedly venting about common mistakes that drive you dotty on a thread for that purpose and actually correcting other individual people's mistakes though.

Unless you are a monopedal mammal on a waiting list for extensive and delicate reconstructive surgery, you are NOT 'favouring a wide leg trouser', nor are you 'sporting a red lip'. You're wearing a pair of wide legged trousers and used red lipstick when putting on your makeup.

"Apple" cider vinegar. What else could cider vinegar be made from, ffs?
Discrete (separate) used wrongly when it should be discreet.
I love these threads.

I'm a 20 years qualified contract lawyer and only found out there were two spellings and meanings of discreet/discrete about two years ago.

It wasn't that I was using anything incorrectly (I hope) but had only heard/used discreet and wasn't aware of the word discrete at all. And luckily I didn't find out in an embarrassing work situation!

I found there were quite a few grammar rules I didn't know when I had my work corrected as a trainee. Life long learning!

I quite like "a trouser". Started saying it in jest with a good friend as you say "un pantalon" in French (meaning a pair of trousers).

Me too! Sounds a bit PG Wodehouse.
Trouser is also a little-used verb, which I didn't realise for a long time.

Most housestyles specify open-case punctuation for those abbreviations. I rarely see them punctuated like that in the UK. Unless you’re in the States?

Same, this makes me seethe inside (and sometimes outside). And the singular, "draw", as in "I'll pop this in the draw". You'll pop it in the where?

English is not my first language, I studied it for years in school, and, although I still struggle with some aspects (like articles, for instance), I find English grammar very logical.
I’m now in a class WhatsApp chat and OMG there are so many mistakes!

off when it should be of
Could of/should of/would of
no instead of know
his when it should be he’s
your/you’re, there/their, too/to mixed up

so here is my genuine question - is grammar taught in school or people just write as they hear?

The "draw(s)" mistake tends to be limited to non-rhotic speakers.

Hrtft so don't know if these two have been previously mentioned but reigns for reins and alot written as one word.

"We / you was going out". "Was you going to come with me?"

"A women"

Alternative instead of alternate and vice versa.

Myself and my friend...

Elicit instead of illicit.

The list isn't exhaustive by any means. The advent of social media has certainly exposed the drop in educational standards, if nothing else.

Noone instead of no one. It's constant on Mumsnet.

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I was sat
He was been sick
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