It is not "WOULD OF" it is "WOULD HAVE"

[frumpygrumpy]

"she would of complained" NO

"she would have complained"

AAaaaaargh!

People just repeat how they hear things - tenderhooks is how it sound (btw do you know what tenterhooks are )

Not pacifically....

but it's just lazy Almeida, most people would have learned to write 'would have' at primary school, and if an idiom is confusing it's not hard to look it up

I can't hear the difference between would of and would've (which is were the confusion arises)

mind I thought it was tenderhooks until now!

I hate 'give it me' which apparently is grammatically correct (please someone come and tell me otherwise)

I always get madder'n mad when I see it too.

And STILL people are using LOOSE instead of LOSE - HOW do they think you get the past participle of 'lost' from 'loose'? FGS.

I also hate when people say others are talking "dribble" - it's DRIVEL, ffs.

lol at these! Lots and lots of my pet hates here.

A friend of mine is always talking about whan an erotic person she is. She means erratic!

Oops what not whan...

Ok mine is .....
"so fun" er no, it was SUCH FUN
and
surely it is just 'both of us', not 'the both of us'.
Oh god, I have turned into my mother

I love this thread

Oh God, yeah- LOOSE instead of LOSE drives me scatty!

Pet hates:

'been' for 'being'. i.e. "All that been said". NOOOOOOOOOO.

Also, 'then' for 'than'. If you are making a comparison, it is always 'than'. Always. I've actually noticed this in some published works, so it looks like proofreaders no longer know the difference.

was instead of were

There's a dj on my local radio station, who says things like "If you was at school in this year..."

My steering wheel has TEETHMARKS!

Tenterhooks:

Tenterhooks were used as far back as the fourteenth century in the process of making woollen cloth. After the cloth had been woven it still contained oil from the fleece and some dirt. It was cleaned in a fulling mill and then had to be dried carefully as wool shrinks. To prevent this shrinkage, the wet cloth would be placed on a large wooden frame, a "tenter", and left to dry outside. The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from the Latin "tendere", to stretch) using hooks (nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvages) were fixed so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size.[1] At one time it would have been common in manufacturing areas to see tenter-fields full of these frames.

By the mid-eighteenth century the phrase "on tenterhooks" came into use to mean being in a state of uneasiness, anxiety, or suspense, stretched like the cloth on the tenter.

From Wikipedia

Has anyone noticed how 'off of' seems to have slipped into everyday usage on radio 1? I mean, "Pete off of York phoned in....."

What's going on there? Can anyone confirm that this really is gramatically incorrect? It winds me up so much.

I've never heard "off of" used like that april. What's it supposed to mean? "Pete from York"?

I think 'off of' is an Americanisation - I certainly remember noticing it on TV years ago. As is to go do as opposed to go and do - and yes, they do crop up on radio 1.

I also cringe when I hear 'text' rather than 'texted' - as in 'I've just text him.' I suppose I'll allow this if there's an implied apostrophe: I've just text' him.

Yes it means 'from' a place. I first noticed it about two years ago when one of the DJs used it. Now they all use it! Maybe I'm too old for radio 1.

Bumping this back up, should be a sticky!

And another thing: (warms up) people in RL have for a long time been adding a question mark at the end of a statement, but I'm now seeing it on MN.

My toes curl when I read 'I wonder why you feel this way?' It's a statement, not a question.

Please stop doing this? You must know that it's wrong?
If I see this again I'll scream?

nontoxic, I think that people tend to write in a shorthand stlye on MN, though, and the the ? at the end of a statement is intended to indicate that you would like the person you are addressing to respond to this point rather than just accept it as your statement. Not OK in real life though! Maybe I'm saying this because I know I abandon much of my proper gramatical knowledge for the sake of expediency when posting on MN.(was going to put a ? there, but resisted )

The one that bothers me is world-wind replacing whirlwind. "embarking on a world-wind tour" for example.

a thread after my own heart!

Just to add - it's definite NOT definate

Also, IT'S - this is NOT used for the possessive

I don't think would've sounds like would of. At least, it doesn't when I say it. I make a sound more like the u in run, represented in the phonetic alphabet by ^ (I can't actually get the symbol properly on my keyboard, but if you look up run you will see which one I mean).

Maybe and may be anyone?

Oh really bubbaluv? In that case, I fink I'll definately forget the hole correct grammar thang?

I can't see the point of having pedants' corner if anything goes for expediency?

(I' m enjoying this too much now?)

Slither and sliver always make me chortle. My DH asked for a little slither of cheese at Christmas.