Wrongly used words - a pet hate

You know, If it weren't for spellcheck, none of the things in the thread would bother me.
I'm a pretty good speller, and I never send anything out without spell checking it. When I get something, especially in business, with several errors, it just makes me think the person who sent it is incredibly lazy.

In online chat, I'm not very picky. I'd rather it be colloquial and slang filled, so as to give me a better feel for the personality of the typist.

You'll have to take it up with the http://www.yourdictionary.com website, you affable flat fronted person. I can't be bothered with grammar checking as well as cut and pasting!

I would never begin to talk about others use of the English language as I am a High School drop out and not well educated. I'm not even sure what the difference between a verb and an adverb is...

However saying that, I do have one pet peeve .. people who use the word Lite instead of Light. ie: It's getting lite outside.

I blame a lot of the poor spelling seen today on Advertisers who purposely misspell words to make thier add's stand out or allows then to trade mark them.

I also blame Meriam Webster, he purposely misspelled words like Colour or Centre in his dictionary so as to differentiate American english from the Queen's.

That's why they usually hype it up before hand, impending doom is on it's way. So you run out and buy bottled watter, batteries and toilet paper. Charmin/Duracell always advertise during the weather.

Damn you to hell, Webster!

Was he also the pervert responsible for dropping the extra "i" in "aluminium"?

It is NOT "aluminum". No, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO.

I think that was Tom Brokaw. He turned huh-RASS-ment into HARE-is-ment and everyone just went along with him. Now we're stuck with it.

I was going to add my rant about the verb to 'attrit' as a horrible US bastardisation of the noun 'attrition', which I first heard during the recent Middle East set-to, until I checked and was humbled to find it's recognised by linguists as an acceptable derivation by means of 'back-formation' (New words from longer old words).

Doesn't mean I have to like it, though. I still suspect our former colonial cousins!

It's the internet; you can't expect everyone to type like an author. :-\

Oh, and I bloody hate the seemingly new verb "to medal", which gets trotted out by commentators at the Olympics. You do NOT "medal", you win a medal, philistines!

Did any Philistines actually win anything?

Yeah, because serious communication would be dead.



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Let's give Indy the benifit of the doubt but...See above.



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QFT I lived in Teesdale for a year.



I think you understand show business well enough.

No. Rameses III saw to that.

and according to my husband you do not "graduate" you are graduated.

That still strikes me as PC-speak gone awry. huh-rass-ment sounds too much like HER-ASS-ment, and to take the reference to female buttocks off, they decided to reform the way we pronounce the word. Geesh. Give me a break, already! I have no evidence to back up my suspicion, so it may just be paranoia, but I really would be surprised if this were not the case.

Marvellous. My Dad and generations of his family before him hail from Thirsk. A short ride away.

@ Brenda, the only OIC I know of is Officer in Charge

I'm afraid I will have to return your husband's paper with a less than stellar mark, Kaimi.

Actually I didn't realize any Americans said HARR-es-ment. Even though I watched Tom Brokaw a lot I thought we all said Hu-RASS-ment.

Really? Do you know Cotherstone? I lived in the curate's house there. (There was no curate at the time so the church was renting it out.) This was back in 1969-70 and I don't remember Thirsk, I'm afraid. We shopped in Barnard's Castle and went to a pub in Romald's Kirk.

Really? I'll tell him. Are you sure?

You see it more on the news than in general use. That's one of the things I find suspicious about it.

I had a drunken weekend in York once.
Some of our crowd may still be banned from a Chinese restaurant there.
and a chip shop...
and a bar or two...
and a taxi firm...

good weekend

Suspicious indeed. I watch the BBC news every night too, perhaps that's why I haven't noticed.

Passed through, for sure. Cotherstone produces a celebrated cheese, I believe.

Positive. It's a transitive verb.