Spelling and grammar bug bears

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Ok I'll start

Greatful

That's dialect use in places (like round here,) but yeah...

@FraiseRoyale thank you! That has introduced me to a new word and sent me off on a happy Internet search to learn more. Interesting! (But I still think the non-rhotic (or "non-robotic", which autocorrect wanted me to say) speakers need to learn to spell.)

The 'flu annoys me too. You don't say the arthritis, the cancer, the tonsillitis or the the diarrhoea. I've got 'flu. Simple.

Come to Wales. That fucker is everywhere 🤬🤔🙈

Can you link, please? Or a further explanation would be useful.

Do you say nooooooon in your head when you see this? I do!
I bristle at should "of"- interestingly I just noticed it auto corrected to should have so I put "" on to stop it changing

Don't know if this is the thread @BlindurErBóklausMaður was referring to but it's the first result on Google and has a good discussion:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/pedants_corner/1778694-Less-than-or-fewer-than#:~:text=Fewer%2C%20because%20you%20can%20count,that%20are%20not%20realistically%20countable.

If you search for PC threads with Prism, or DadDadDad posting, you'll find quite a few. (Around 2013-2015)

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/pedants_corner/1778694-Less-than-or-fewer-than

It's to do with discrete and non-discrete use.

A year is countable.
But we don't say "fewer than 4 years", we say "less than 4 years" because we are considering (semantically and pragmatically) not a "year", but "time".

Individual objects in a pile of shopping are countable. Boxes of cereal, tins of soup. Shopping isn't. So "5 items or fewer" is correct. (If semantically you consider the individual items and not what the individual items are a part of) But "5 items or less" isn't wrong (if you consider the individual items as part of the whole)

It's really only at a very simplistic level that countable= fewer, uncountable= less. Corpus studies' findings also indicate that "fewer" will soon (in linguistic terms) be obsolete. Won't be in our lifetime, obviously.

So many!!!

Brought/bought
Loose/lose
Ect/etc
Off/of

We was 🤯

Chester draws

There/their/they're
His/he's

I have to hold back from correcting it on social media (and MN) and it's so difficult 😂

Try to reserve some sympathy for those of us working in Education. When you have to communicate information about and to younger/junior staff multiple times a week, it completely confuses Autocorrect and Spellcheck.

WHY did they decide to rename NQTs Early Career Teachers? WHY?

Are you deliberately littering your posts with bad spelling and grammar or are you completely unaware?

I'm baffled.

Equally, now I am supporting a very bright child who has severe dyslexia I feel quite frustrated how judgemental people are.

"I try to eat healthy."

Adverse instead of averse and vice versa.

Gateau's.

Fo par (faux pas)

Curriculum vitae's. The correct spelling of the first word is a often a bonus.

Dinning table (beloved by Ebay sellers it seems).

I do say nooooon in my head, with a peculiar, sort-of-Newcastle accent 😂

Another one

Looking in vane.