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Prospector said:
This is a pet hate of mine - people who use the apostrophe incorrectly - eg 'its' 'it's' etc.
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This is a pet hate of mine as well. It's especially painful to watch when people start putting apostrophes in plurals, such as "car's" or "avocado's".

I see these all the times on signs for fruit and vege shops. (CARROT'S $2/KG).
 
i never know when to use "license" and "licence"

and the other one is "practice" and "practise"

Yes i still haven't learnt!!!! *ashamed*

Maybe someone here can help me out while we are on the topic.
 
One mistake that always gets my attention (in a bad way), and which is fairly common on trading forums (fora?), is when people write about "pouring over charts". Pouring what? Coffee? Presumably they mean "poring" ...

Cheers, Staybaker.
 
hypnotic said:
i never know when to use "license" and "licence"

and the other one is "practice" and "practise"

Yes i still haven't learnt!!!! *ashamed*

Maybe someone here can help me out while we are on the topic.
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I was taught that Practice with a C is a noun - eg Doctor's practice. Practise with an S is a verb - eg practise your tennis game.

But I have checked on the internet and according to Websters, they are the same thing. But I dont agree - :swear: I think they have taken the easy way out!
 
Staybaker said:
One mistake that always gets my attention (in a bad way), and which is fairly common on trading forums (fora?), is when people write about "pouring over charts". Pouring what? Coffee? Presumably they mean "poring" ...

Cheers, Staybaker.
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Or when someone 'important' dies, "the tributes pour in" Pour....pore.... in to where, exactly?
 
Prospector said:
But I have checked on the internet and according to Websters, they are the same thing. But I dont agree
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I think it's a regional thing. I also learnt that 'c' is the noun and 's' the verb, but "practise" is primarly British use. Apparently Americans generally use "practice" for everything.

Cheers,
GP
 
Re: ASF spelling thread - Your / You're - Arghhh!!!

G'day all.
Now - I don't wanna be a pedantic B(*&^$^$ard !! cause I know I make plenty of mistakes...but the one that gets to me most, mainly because I see it in every second post is this....

" YOUR a funny dude Mr XYZ..." etc.

People... It's "YOU'RE a funny dude..." that's short for "YOU ARE a funny dude..."

If what you're thinking of writing is short for "you are"... then you can type "you're"; but it's NOT "your".

YOUR denotes ownership - eg. "It's your pen Mr XYZ.."

Jeeze!! No wonder everyone is whining about the standard of teachers these days!!!

OK OK - settle petal. So that's my little rant for today!! Back to work all youse ozy stuck phorem peepul.
 
Re: ASF spelling thread - Your / You're - Arghhh!!!

Dukey said:
...but the one that gets to me most, mainly because I see it in every second post is this...." YOUR a funny dude Mr XYZ..." etc.
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HEY - HEY - Your a funny dude TOO, Dukey.!! Their you go!! Stick that in your pipe!! Personally I think it's a case of one two many boozups and two many miles behind!!".

To change the subject - personally I cant stand people who aren't metricated - should be kilometres !!! pronounced "KILometres !! to rhyme with MILLimetres ... (PS I could give a shinbone how you pronounce Kilometres, - but I know this old bloke in a retirement home who can talk about that for bludy hours lol. Mind you, whenever they sit down for breakfast, because he used to be Managing Director of a big company, he bangs his knife and fork on the table and demands ..."THE MEETING will come to ORDER !!!" lol

PS Like they say, the world still waits for USA to go metric - poor bugas are still measuring "3 foot 2 and 13/64 inches", sheesh. As they say, "The USA is going metric inch by inch". lol.
adios amigos - happy hour - ideal time for a stir!.

PS btw, m8, imho, theirs been a sp8 of bad spellin L8Ly
 
They're know miss steaks in this post cause we used special soft wear witch checks yore spelling.
It is mower or lass a weigh too verify. How ever is can knot correct arrows inn punctuation ore usage:an it will not fined words witch are miss used butt spelled rite.
Four example; a paragraph could have mini flaws but wood bee past by the spell checker.
And it wont catch the sentence fragment which you.
Their fore, the massage is that proofreading is knot eliminated, it is still berry muck reek wired
 
Prays the Lord for the spelling chequer
That came with our pea sea!
Mecca mistake and it puts you rite
Its so easy to ewes, you sea.

I never used to no, was it e before eye?
(Four sometimes its eye before e.)
But now I've discovered the quay to success
It's as simple as won, too, free!

Sew watt if you lose a letter or two,
The whirled won't come two an end!
Can't you sea? It's as plane as the knows on yore face
S. Chequer's my very best friend

I've always had trubble with letters that double
"Is it one or to S's?" I'd wine
But now, as I've tolled you this chequer is grate
And its hi thyme you got won, like mine.
 
123enen said:
Prays the Lord for the spelling chequer
That came with our pea sea!
Mecca mistake and it puts you rite
Its so easy to ewes, you sea..
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Lol - 123 - I sent this business letter the other day - I said "I suggest that the total should be obtained by pro-rata-ing" -
Spellcheck changed it (I didnt think as I clicked "accept") and it came out as :-
"I suggest that the total should be obtained by procreating"
Gotta watch that spellcheck lol.
PS I picked up the mistake a few weeks later - couldn't understand why they hadnt responded to my offer lol.
 
You already know the 'i' before 'e' ones...I also learned this.....

A NOUN is the name we give to something, a person, a place, animal, idea or thing.
An ADJECTIVE tells us about the noun, beautiful, spiky, blue or brown.
The VERB is the action being done, eat, swim, hop or run.
Doing, being and having are verbs as well, he is, I am, and we can spell.
The ADVERB tells us where, when or how, early late, quickly and now.
PRONOUNS stand in for a noun, I am Australian and we live in Georgetown.
CONJUNCTIONS join sentences together, I like the sun and the warmer weather.
PREPOSITIONS introduce a phrase, under the umbrella Tree or in a daze.
Two types of ARTICLES highlight nouns, an abalone, a bilby and the Darling Downs.
The DEFINITIVE ARTICLES indicate the noun is one of a kind, a lizard, a wallaby and an imaginative mind.
An INTERJECTION expresses a feeling, ouch! wow! yuk! and is full of meaning!
Learn this poem and you will see just how easy English can be!!


If whomever is reading it and they have no trouble with comprehension I reckon the deed is done.........

Cheerful
p.s. You get the meaning when people use 'pour' don't you....?
 


Thanks for that, Nelly. It could be quite useful.
I'd also mention, though, that many people just can't get hold of words like "interjection", "conjunction" etc. I tutor adults in literacy, and have to say, e.g. "joining word" instead of "conjunction". Everything has to come down to really simple, almost child like words.

I do agree about "your" versus "you're". Drives me mad. Can't honestly see why it's difficult to grasp the difference between the concept of ownership for the first and the abbreviated version of "you are" in the second.

What annoys me even more is the widespread misuse of apostrophes, especially at the fruit shop: "banana's for sale"!!!

Julia
 
Julia said:
misuse of apostrophes, especially at the fruit shop: "banana's for sale"!!!Julia
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Like the un-original fish shop competing with the fruit shop -

the fruit shop would put up "my banana's are the GREATEST" to which the fish shop would reply " my sole's are the GREATEST"
next day ...

"my banana's are the BEST" to which the fish shop would reply " my sole's are the BEST"

finally the fruit shop twigged "My banana's ARE banana's" ? - there was no reply lol.

PS as for sentences ending in prepositions , these are things up with which I will not put!! ( as winston Churchill said )
 
I hate postmodernists. Any words that they use should be banned. How about a full stop ceunts! Or should that be with a question mark? Interesting how loquaciousness is such a long word.
 
The Rules Of English

1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.

4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat).

6. Always avoid annoying alliteration.

7. Be more or less specific.

8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.

9. Also, too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.

10. No sentence fragments. No comma splices, run-ons are bad too.

11. Contractions aren't helpful and shouldn't be used.

12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.

14. One should never generalize.

15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

16. Don't use no double negatives.

17. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.

19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.

20. The passive voice is to be ignored.

21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.

22. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.

23. Kill all exclamation points!!!!

24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.

25. Understatement is probably not the best way to propose earth shattering ideas.

26. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.

27. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

28. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.

29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.

30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.

31. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.

32. Who needs rhetorical questions?

33. Exaggeration is a million times worse than understatement.

34. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

Cheers, Staybaker.
 
lol - Nice one Staybaker
and likewise Nelly's poem bak there

I'd post a post here except it would be like "challenging a school of piranhas to a game of water polo" lol - especially considering the number of spelling errors and typos I personally make.

You know what DNA stands for don't you? - National Dyslexic Association
 
Prospector said:
Or when someone 'important' dies, "the tributes pour in" Pour....pore.... in to where, exactly?
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The tributes pour in to their letterbox.

Seems logical to me...
 
when people use double negatives it really s**ts me!

ie- "I don't know nothing"

Springer-English or "Bling-lish" as I like to call it!
 
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