The "how hard can it be?" thread

[UnquietDad]

It's loth to do it, not "loath" or "loathe".

It's accept something, not "except" it.

It's affect the outcome, not "effect" it.

It's publicly, not "publically".

It's never mind (two words), not "nevermind" (pace Nirvana).

It's liaison, not "liason".

Any more (not "anymore") ?

(Apologies, as I've just seen someone has already used this title!)

You can say loath can't you? I always do.

So, quite hard it seems.

Loth looks all wrong.

Surely it's just a variant spelling of loath - and both are acceptable?

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Nurses loth to report abuse of elderly

GPs loth to report child abuse

Economist Feb 28th 2008:
"They should keep the PKK at arm's length, though the Turks say they should clobber them, something Kurds are loth to do to each other."

Still think you can have loth or loath to mean reluctant.

And loathe to mean hate.

Loathe is hate, yes. I have seen "I am loath", but still not convinced by it.

More, please!

In my dictionary under loath it gives loth as a variant spelling. Under loth it says '= loath'. Like I say, this is only according to my dictionary.

The ones that annoy me are when people confuse off with of and been with being.

And "off off".

"That Graham Norton off of the telly." Aaagh!

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So I think it is quite hard really.

I think loath stands too.

I don't like pedantry though. It's so picky and prim.

i HATE it when people use "how" insted of "why"

"how are you doing that?"

"how is it that...?"

ARGH

'of' instead of 'have'

a la 'I could of went earlier'...

LOSE weight not loose (that's what happens to your clothes)

OK, I might give you loath as a variant, but NEVER loathe!

All right. NOT alright.

Naily, that's Scottish I think. I'd never heard it till I moved up here.

Fewer and less.
Accommodation not 'acommodation' or 'accomodation' or anything else.

Cod is wittering about rice because she never makes grammatic or syntactic errors so she's above all this. We just can't tell because of her typography unfortunately.

Different from, not to

owing to, not due to

jump off. not off of (pace one for the vine)

Don't understand the rice thing, sorry???? Is it a dead funny joke?

I personally like to use "off of" to show my superiority to people who do it without that knowing irony thing..

Now I started a thread about "any more" a couple of weeks back and was told that there is a time when you CAN use "anymore."

Can't remember when that is anymore though, so please do remind me someone!

Actually, I think that's it...

SepArate

i could of, instead of i could have

heard someone say obeast instead of obese!

allergict

life assurance, not life insurance

anymore and any more have different meanings don't they or can't you use anymore anymore at all.

It;'s life assurance, of course, because it's "assured" that you will die! Not insured "against" the eventuality...

definitely.

not definately or definetely.