It's stationEry!!!

[Feenie]

TWO thread titles with this misspelling today!

And breathe.

[southeastastra]

unless it's stationary

[Feenie]

Yes. But neither of them are. I inherited a classroom from our deputy head with neat 'STATIONARY' labels on two of her trays.

[RubberDuck]

I was always taught to remember the difference as:

Envelope is stationEry.
A parked Automobile is stationAry.

[HSMM]

But the labels weren't moving, so they were stationary :)

[fuschiagroan]

I remember it as you buy stationery from a STATIONERS not a stationars. Innit?

[StealthPolarBear]

I learned

papER is stationERy
and
a pARked cAR is stationARy

lol at HSMM :)

[MumInBeds]

Feenie, at least they don't say 'Stationary Draw' as one did at my workplace.

[Clumsymum]

Drives me LOOOOOOPY.

How many people make this mistake, including professional traders on websites and on ebay..

[belledechocolatefluffybunny]

Who cares? The pens were in fact stationary in my hair, they were not going anywhere.
I find it incredibly rude to correct people on their spelling unless it's an important document. You are clearly nit picking on someone who is having a very crap day, surly being told my mother will be dead in 1-2 years excuses me from spelling a farking word correctly?

[Feenie]

Erm......I am in Pedants' corner, doing exactly what it's made for. Had I come on to your thread and said the same, you would have grounds to get narky with me.

I'm very, very sorry about your Mum, your situation sounds really horrible.

[TrillianAstra]

It might also be stationAry... is it moving?

[Clumsymum]

I'm sorry, I didn't know either that it was belle's thread where the error occurred, and I appreciate it's been a crap day for her.

But Feenie, I do agree with you about the general feeling. Spelling etc does matter..

[taffetacatski]

Most stationery is stationary - apart from when its made into paper aeroplanes

I am not normally a pedant (much...) I thought this was a thread about stationery. I love it. I have a bad Paperchase habit.

[TrillianAstra]

Or rubber band balls for throwing and bouncing, they're not stationary.

[taffetacatski]

snurk

airmail envelopes aren't either

[taffetacatski]

Oh I am sorry have just read the thread properly belle didn't mean to be flippant

very sorry to hear about your mum :(

[TrillianAstra]

If I'm in my seat on a plane, asleep, not moving, but the plane is flying, am I stationary? I feel stationary.

[belledechocolatefluffybunny]

It's OK, there really are other things going on in peoples lives though, it may be very important to you that one word is spelt correctly, starting a thread about it is rather rude though, I think these are generally used for things seen outside mumsnet and not to correct a thread seen on here, use it for a leaflet or an advert that you have seen for example. It's going over the line when you so openly point out an error when the person in question can read all about it.

[TrillianAstra]

Just sayin'

[taffetacatski]

Trillian - how very metaphysical of you. We are never stationary I guess as the world spins inexorably on its axis

[belledechocolatefluffybunny]

I wasn't lucky enough to go to a school that taught or corrected spelling. I was quite excited when ds came home with his spelling lists as I'd never experienced this before I learned more helping him then I ever did at school.

[EgyptVanGogh]

Well, I'm slightly embarrassed but this thread is just poor manners. Surely you could have acknowledged my hilarious noteworthy stupidity in an existing thread - don't you pedants have a running one?