End of year rantette. Populous populace.

[anonymous-user]

I've been about to blow a gasket on this for ages, have resisted, but I decided that I'd go full shouty on it before the year ends.

Populous.

This word appears in approx 947 per cent of all threads in N,P&E, and is used by approximately 437 percent of posters here. The context in which the word is used invariably* shows that the word intended was "populace". Thus: "The populous will not stand for any more MSM denials that N Farage is like Santa, only better." (copyright N,P,&E, all threads)

It's Populace, Godammit! WTF, people? Get a grip!

Over in S,P&L there is a thing about wave. Wave always appears when people want to say "waive".

In both cases, I don't believe that this is always down to predictive text blah.

Anyway, pretty poor rant, I grant you. Insert random swearing or DM reference here [ ] to improve rant quality.

What words that are INVARIABLY misused on PH really do your head in? I don't mean badd spolleng. I mean using the wrong homophone.

Love,

Mrs Malaprop



* This conclusion has been stress tested using standard PH methodology - Data accurate to within .0000000000000001 decimal point, error margin plus/minus 87 billion. Source: made up website.

[Don]

7/10. Nowhere near enough swearing. Content good, however. Pedantry a plus point.

I do enjoy the fact that Pistonheads is a site with standards. Long may it remain so.

[Troubleatmill]

Bread van is two words.


Trouble at mill is three words... So I'm hung by my own petard.

[Justayellowbadge]

Agreed. About thyme someone bought this up, and inner firm manor.

[truck71]

Tire and disk.

[condor]

Loose and lose
break and brake
your and you're
There and their
affect and effect
...I could go on, and on

[Terminator X]

Chap I know says mute point rather than moot ... been saying it for 10 years or so!

TX.

[FredClogs]

1/10 you're being a bit pompace.

[caiss4]

Advise instead of advice!

[eharding]

I find the habit some folk have of neglecting the leading apostrophe from the term "'kipper" - to describe an adherent of the UKIP faith - a lamentable state of affairs.

Anyway..."rantette" - weren't they a popular Scandinavian electro-pop-rock combo in the late Eighties?

[anonymous-user]

Breaks: good call! Breaks for brakes is STANDARD in General Gassing and Readers' Track Slags. It's a fking car site, FFS!

[dandarez]

Bloody hell, I'd have sent you 'Populace' for Xmas if I'd known it would blow your fuse BV. Would have made my year go out with a joyous bang!

Everyone knows Populous is a computer game designed by Peter Molyneux for Bullfrog, first released for the Amiga in 1989.
Regarded by many as the first GOD game.
The first game in the Populous series, before Populous II - Trials of the Olympian Gods and of course, Populous - The Beginning.

[CAPP0]

BV, you defiantly have a point there….

[Diderot]

It's and its.

Oh and phrases like 'truly unique' or 'very unique'. There are no degrees of uniqueness!

Amount and number.

Thanks Breadvan you've cheered me right up

[Diderot]

Would of and should of.

If I were ruler, that would be a capital offence and summary execution would follow without appeal.

[DocJock]

Curb and kerb!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Breadvan72 said:

It's a fking car site, FFS!

One word....license!

I'll go now.

[Eric Mc]

"License" is a legitimate word. It's just that it is a verb rather than a noun.

[Looket]

Would of.

Should of.

ps off!

[Justayellowbadge]

'NP&E' when, as any fule kno, 'Lounge' is correct.