Sadly, and with much regret, I hereby rescind my membership of the Pedants' Club

[Twiglett]

I am no longer able to differentiate between 'who's' and 'whose'.

I am putting in hyphens where none belong.

I am struggling for words.

And once, yes once dear friends, I wrote and email that included the words "I don't no" and only noticed when I re-read it.

ARF!! Very good Threadworm

Ah, like the many angles that can dance on the head of a pin........

lol -- and we pedants are the pinheads.

I sent this thread to dh who said....

"These people have weigh to much time on there hand's."

(Note the four deliberate mistakes in that sentence !!)

Twig - find a new corner for pickled pedants.
I'll join you - I got a who's/whose wrong on here recently and felt quite outraged with myself.

You lot would (I hope) be proud of me - we were on holiday at the seaside last week, and someone had written on (in?) the sand 'Don't dissapoint me', so I corrected it.

but did you add 'You already have - 7/10, must try harder' underneath?

Damn - missed a chance there, didn't I. DH was already looking at me strangely - I don't think he'd have appreciated my annotating it.

(And I hope to qualify for extra pedant points for the use of the gerund there)

Ooh, that is very tasty, JackieNo! You've got me quite excited with that one.

'gerunder that rock and stop embarrassing me with your pendantry', exclaimed Mr No

Excellent, Janni!

Janni.

whoops pendantry - a penchant for extreme pendant wearing?

Jura - you're good, you're very good.

Hey Twig!

You have me to thank.

I had a boyfriend (brilliant PhD physicist,fistfulls of MScs,earns tonnes in t'city) who had (and has) absolutely no bloody idea.

For a luagh I would dictate something like the following to him:

'Oh look over there.There's a bear, eating their lunch.'

Wonder why he finished with me.