Common mistakes or misnomers
Discussion
motco said:
...in green ballpoint on a sheet torn from a spiral bound shorthand pad?
No, they were perfectly literate and, it has to be said, written by hand with a fountain pen in lovely cursive script. He was just a pedant, not a nutter. We did get the 'green ink, scrawled across a torn notepad sheet with random capitalisation' as well, but this wasn't one of them. Those usually came if we said anything negative about some stalwart British classic, where we'd be accused of being subversive communists trying to Destroy British Culture by saying that the Morris Minor wasn't perfect. Or sometimes we'd accidentally step on a landmine we didn't know was there, and find ourselves in the middle of a long-running and deeply personal dispute between the Humber Sceptre Owners Club and the Humber Sceptre Register or something like that:
"I was shocked and appalled to see you included a picture of Joe Bloggs' Humber Sceptre on p40 of your last issue. Any so-called expert like you should be able to tell that Joe's Sceptre is NOT representative of these marvelous cars and has been RUINED by a PATHETIC restoration attempt, as can be evidenced by the off-side sill drain hole being 1/8th of an inch too far forward. This clearly shows the use of PATTERN PARTS, almost certainly FOREIGN MADE [here follows two paragraphs of anecdotes from that days of National Service, dense with racial slurs]. I am also AMAZED that you did not spot that Joe's car PURPORTS to be a Mk1 car but has the quarterlight handles from a Mk2, or if you did notice this that you still saw fit to publish the picture. Please pass this letter to your editor, and I would be grateful if in future all approaches relating to Humber Sceptres could be made to me. Yours, John Smith, Founder, Permanent Chairman, Treasure and Executive Officer of the HSR."
Drew106 said:
J4CKO said:
Brought used in place of bought.
I am not spelling or grammar pedant but that one gets right on my tits, seems to be an age thing with younger folk getting it wrong.
Do they teach that in schools ? Its the wrong word, its not hard.
I assumed this was a midlands thing? Very common around here, most guys in the office under 30 regularly say brought instead of bought. I am not spelling or grammar pedant but that one gets right on my tits, seems to be an age thing with younger folk getting it wrong.
Do they teach that in schools ? Its the wrong word, its not hard.
Evoluzione said:
We have to decide whether something is waste or recyclable.
Anyhow, lets have a game of 'Recycle or waste'. Come on Stevie, SPIN THAT WHEEL!
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, click.
So Stevie, for 2 points:
Someone has carelessly thrown chips on the floor. Recycle or waste?
Come on Stevie, clock is ticking.
10 seconds.....
Ooh - trick question because there's a caveat to the answer.Anyhow, lets have a game of 'Recycle or waste'. Come on Stevie, SPIN THAT WHEEL!
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, click.
So Stevie, for 2 points:
Someone has carelessly thrown chips on the floor. Recycle or waste?
Come on Stevie, clock is ticking.
10 seconds.....
Said chips can be collected and placed into an in-vessel compost unit (along with other organic material). The decomposition creates methane which is captured and used to generate electricity and what's left at the end of the process is used to improve soil on fields.
Thus the organic composition of the chips has altered to create two beneficial outputs. So recyclable.
Caveat......
This assumes said chips are collected and delivered to an appropriate facility. If that doesn't happen, then they remain as waste.
Do I win a speedboat?
Evoluzione said:
We have to decide whether something is waste or recyclable.
Anyhow, lets have a game of 'Recycle or waste'. Come on Stevie, SPIN THAT WHEEL!
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, click.
So Stevie, for 2 points:
Someone has carelessly thrown chips on the floor. Recycle or waste?
Come on Stevie, clock is ticking.
10 seconds.....
'Looks at clock' - Lunch!Anyhow, lets have a game of 'Recycle or waste'. Come on Stevie, SPIN THAT WHEEL!
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, click.
So Stevie, for 2 points:
Someone has carelessly thrown chips on the floor. Recycle or waste?
Come on Stevie, clock is ticking.
10 seconds.....
StevieBee said:
Evoluzione said:
We have to decide whether something is waste or recyclable.
Anyhow, lets have a game of 'Recycle or waste'. Come on Stevie, SPIN THAT WHEEL!
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, click.
So Stevie, for 2 points:
Someone has carelessly thrown chips on the floor. Recycle or waste?
Come on Stevie, clock is ticking.
10 seconds.....
Ooh - trick question because there's a caveat to the answer.Anyhow, lets have a game of 'Recycle or waste'. Come on Stevie, SPIN THAT WHEEL!
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, click.
So Stevie, for 2 points:
Someone has carelessly thrown chips on the floor. Recycle or waste?
Come on Stevie, clock is ticking.
10 seconds.....
Said chips can be collected and placed into an in-vessel compost unit (along with other organic material). The decomposition creates methane which is captured and used to generate electricity and what's left at the end of the process is used to improve soil on fields.
Thus the organic composition of the chips has altered to create two beneficial outputs. So recyclable.
Caveat......
This assumes said chips are collected and delivered to an appropriate facility. If that doesn't happen, then they remain as waste.
Do I win a speedboat?
But as you said rubbish is recyclable i'll give you a point
Tyre Smoke said:
Over over under steer said:
There’s instead of there are
People use there’s instead of there are dealing with plurals. It’s got so bad that even BBC Radio 4 is guilty of it now, previously my gold standard.
There's loads of examples of that.People use there’s instead of there are dealing with plurals. It’s got so bad that even BBC Radio 4 is guilty of it now, previously my gold standard.
'Should/could/would of...'
I know there are those who say that these sort of mistakes don't really matter so long as the meaning is clear, and I suppose that's true to a degree. However whenever somebody commits the above grammatical atrocity it raises a strong presumption in my mind that they are thick and probably not worth paying attention to.
I know there are those who say that these sort of mistakes don't really matter so long as the meaning is clear, and I suppose that's true to a degree. However whenever somebody commits the above grammatical atrocity it raises a strong presumption in my mind that they are thick and probably not worth paying attention to.
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