"Per say"

[squishee]

I've just seen it on here yet again.
It should be 'per se', borrowed from the Latin.

Toot Sweet is supposed to be tout de suite (immediately), but it's tongue in cheek when spelt like that I hope

Aksed... just.... how?

@Gubanc

Aksed... just.... how?

Yep. Agreed.

I saw ‘John and I’s birthdays’ this morning. How can anyone thing ‘I’s’ is a thing??? She definitely meant ‘I’ as in herself, not someone with an initial I.
I/me is one of the easiest things to work out too, just take the other person out of the sentence 🤯

Chester drawers

New campers: they are GUY ropes, not guide ropes.

Toot Sweet is supposed to be tout de suite (immediately), but it's tongue in cheek when spelt like that I hope.

Arh, thanks for the interpretation. That makes sense now 😂

I/me is one of the easiest things to work out too, just take the other person out of the sentence 🤯

That's from learning parrot style and not really understanding the rule, isnt it? Children learn it's polite to put the other person's name first with an 'x and I' example and dont realise the 'I' is interchangeable with 'me'!

‘ Rest bite ‘ ( respite)

@Jocasta2018

Prostate/prostrate cancer.

An oncologist friend told me he goes along with whichever one the patient uses during their first meeting.
He considers it bad form to correct a newly-diagnosed cancer patient.

That's really lovely and non judgemental. What a caring friend.

DH and I had a humongous argument after I corrected his use of brought/bought once, in the middle of a smaller argument, ... ah, memories

Wandering instead of wondering is my latest pet peeve though.

I calm myself by assuming it's autocorrect at it again!

It’s because they have heard it said, rather than read it , so they don’t know how to actually spell it

@Cam2020

Self-paste learning.

I dont understand this one?
Self-paced?

Perhaps representative of the role of ctrl-V in the Wikipedia age?

I don't really get excited by poor use of language on forums etc but when it's an advert, or an article - anything official, I do wonder why no one brought in a proof reader.

That said, IABU then to be a bit eye rolly at the people who are going to loose weight or who have a Husband or a Daughter or Thing What Don't Actually Need Capitals, Innit.

@tribpot
I was doing some self-paste learning last weekend.
I was hanging wall paper for the first time and seemed to get more paste on me than it did on the paper

Something I've only ever seen on Mumsnet is people meaning cue, but using que, so, for example, they write something like "I gave the children beans on toast for dinner, que lots of complaining that that's not a proper dinner".

’It should be 'per se', borrowed from the Latin.’

It might evolve into Per-see. That’s pig Latin.

I’ll get my coat …

@Nightbear

’It should be 'per se', borrowed from the Latin.’

It might evolve into Per-see. That’s pig Latin.

I’ll get my coat …

That joke’s a bit Sus....

@SpongebobNoPants

More than 5 times in the last 24 hours I have seen “ect” instead of etc. It’s et cetera!!!!

If it was on here, that will be autocorrect rather than ignorance.

@Nightbear
Brilliant!

@Changechangychange how and why would autocorrect change etc to ect? Ect isn’t a word or an abbreviation of anything... logically it should autocorrect to the correct “etc”

Foot stall

I sometimes wonder when somebody has posted with a word spelled incorrectly and then other people post afterwards using the correct spelling (I don’t mean doing the faux helpful post to point it out, just normal responses) do they realise they had it wrong, or do they think the other person does?

Yes, I should have said "self-paste" was code for self-paced. This was in a professional context as well, not a forum or blog. Because spell check didn't underline the word it was very hard to persuade them it was wrong.

@Borris

Lumbar puncher anyone?

Actually had LUMBER PUNCHER.

Can’t see how hitting wood might help.