For the love of god its drawer..

[hobbledyhoy]

...not draw.

Aaarrrggghhh!

Didn't want to be the arsehole and put it on the thread but I scream inside every time I see it. Feel a bit better now.

And gotten

The endless criticism of 'gotten' on here is one of my bugbears. We use it in NI. 'Got' sounds completely wrong to my ears. It just doesn't flow.

Also agree with 'can I get?' Completely acceptable in NI. Compulsory even, if you don't want an eye roll😆

I hope you went to that teacher and explained why would have is perfectly correct.

What's with all this 'bias' instead of biasED? I've just read 'the judging is bias because...' 🤬 It's BIASED.

My daughter's English teacher told me she'd "wrote" something in her report

"Your" used when it should be "you're" drives me nuts and I see it a lot these days! Possibly due to autocorrect. "Your be" instead of "you'll be" is even worse!

Seen a lot of peak instead of peek, and heal instead of heel lately. It’s never the other way around, weirdly. Also ‘piece of mind’ or worse, ‘piece of mine’ 😤

’Sneaky peak’….. it’s not ‘peakaboo’, why would it be sneaky peak? 👀🗻

When there's an accident and people are "Praying for the poor SOLES involved"

They’re wiv da angles, hun.

Gotten is not incorrect. It was commonplace in Old English. "Ill gotten gains" etc. It just fell out of popular usage (though not everywhere as the Northern Irish poster noted).

It's now commonly used in the US and its rise in popularity in the UK gets dismissed as a new fangled Americanism, which isn't really the case.

Another bugbear I've remembered is "que" for queue. At work all out admin tasks go into one app and are queued in order of urgency. The app clearly states the word "queue" on its home page. Yet the admin team leader repeatedly sent emails referring to the "que". I had to tell her (politely) in the end as I was grinding my teeth to stumps every time I saw it. She was surprised and claimed never to have noticed the different spelling.

I also saw someone post "queue the music" on Facebook yesterday. Nice spelling but unfortunately should have been "cue" on that occasion!

The head teacher of my daughter's school sends out a weekly newsletter littered with spelling and grammar errors. For example "here here" and "dates for your dairies". I assumed that she dictated it and it was typed up by the school secretary whose first language isn't English. I tactfully (so I thought) suggested to HT at one point that it might work well for someone to proof read it before sending. It turned out HT types it herself. Well, that was me struck off her Christmas card list, oops! (Or should that be "that was I"???)

(Or should that be "that was I"???)

Borrowing from American etiquette columnist Miss Manners, in my family we refer to this type of usage as being "excruciatingly correct."

Our new Headteacher sent out newsletters containing awful spelling and grammar howlers.
Now she gets one of us old farts to proofread them as we're the only ones who know how to use these correctly.

Very worrying in a school of a HT, 2 DHTs and 15 teachers

I've not had any notifications for this thread but I'm pleased to see there are so many kindred spirits!

In a similar vein, my DC's nursery gives me a laugh each week, with the plan for the classes often littered with spelling mistakes. This week we have children making 'sick puppets'.

I was scrolling through my FB earlier and saw a piece by some journalist (if that's what they call themselves) on The Viral Feed. It was about a King's Guard horse that bit some tourist and one part 'quoted' the sign as saying:

"Don't touch the reigns"

I was apoplectically trying to find a way to post a comment on it but failed. The correct spelling is literally there on the sign ffs. DP tried to lighten my dark mood by suggesting that maybe the so-called journo was making a clever pun, but I told him that I doubted that VERY MUCH.

Are those the reigns attached to the bridal? 😉

Invite/invitation. Grrr.

That is all.

Just spotted ‘chest of draws’ in a thread with ‘drawer’ in the title. FGS.