it's independent and grammar ....

[mimsum]

sorry - but it really bugs me ...

what does?

explain?

Not independant and grammar

I mean not grammer

should this be in pedan'ts corner?

tis tough to get things wrong on purpose, isn't it, rusty?

I'm so glad you posted this. It has been bugging me for ages - and I went to a comprehensive!

here you go sweetie, you'll settle in no problem.

Gah, you're so right, when people type "independant" I want to scream at them!!!!

I know I know (suppose you're having a go at me)

I struggle with dyslexia and dyspraxia but do my best - some words I simply have massive problems with and those are two of them

Yes - it drives me mad when posters say they have a brilliant DC who is at grammer school or that they have loadsamoney and want their DCs to go to an independant.school But then I'm just an intellectual snob.

I don't think she's having a go at anybody, she is just getting something off her chest.

And she apologised as well.

We know that lots of people struggle with dyslexia, dyspraxia, even just the inability to spell, but the inability to ignore spelling errors is a curse laid down on us pedants by an evil witch, so please don't take it personally.

not having a go at anyone in particular - it's just been simmering for ages and the pedant in me just forced its way out incredible hulk-style

sorry - shall slink off to pedants' corner now

sorry maybe over reacted, feleing bit stressed tonigt. I can't talk even wiht dyslexia I get upset when people mix up its and it's!!

well, why don't you come over and join us in pedants' corner as well.... lots of folk get those ones wrong

I posted this last week (after drinking - I know I've been drinking thread title. Really bugs me too. My dyslexic 11yo ds understands and gets it's and its. Could be proved wrong in Sept when he writes xxxxx grammer on the front of all his stuff of course...

yeah, I've posted about this too.

I don't understand how a parent can bleat about their dc deserving a 'grammer' place when they can't even make the effort to find out how to spell the word.

It's as if I said "I should be the first person to visit Joopiter."

I've always wanted to correct those two words when I have seen the spelt incorrectly. I agree with mimsum and fircone but expected to get some flack. I just seethed inwardly instead!

Well my daughter goes to an independant school and I have big problems spelling the word, I have a mental block with it, as I do with another couple of words.

Maybe she doesn't deserve to go there because I can't spell it.

If only we were all perfect or had the time to proof read all our posts instead of grabbing a spare few minutes here and there.

If you don't believe a word is spelt wrongly, you don't think to correct it.

I'm dyslexic but picky about grammar etc., and I swing from caring deeply to thinking Oh feck it. This makes me a pendant.

Easy way to remember independent -e for education

grammar a for academic

Thanks for the tips. I started spelling independent with the a after spending too much time on mumsnet!!!

Thank you for posting-- this has been driving me a bit nuts too.

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I thought it was only me who got het up about such things...

lol at pendant. v.g.