Another one to go "grrr" about!

Aepgirl I get that on our buy and sell sites as well. Another favourite is “shabby sheek” What has happened to people that they just don’t know the language they’re supposed to be speaking??

Dave Gorman did a really good programme on misunderstandings once. Really funny, I need to find it and watch it again. I’m such a grammar nazi that I can’t bear some of the things I see on social media.

Yes that happens to me too- I clearly type a word and check it’s correct , only to find it’s been changed before sending. Infuriating!
Of course I sometimes make typos too. It’s also much harder to write and put in apostrophes when writing on an iPhone as you have to keep changing the keyboard.

Oops! Typo! Apostrophe! Why is it that autocorrect regularly makes nonsense of my words but didn't correct my typo when I wrote 'apostrphe'?

It's people saying "should of" or "would of" that get me. It's should've or should HAVE, grr

I regularly see on our local ‘buy and sell’ FaceBook page, Chester draws. Do people now know what a ‘chest of drawers’ is?

Perhaps you’re right Shortlegs.

I used to shout at the television every time I heard “for free”. Then I realised I couldn’t change anything anyway so kept quiet. I give you this information for ............ nothing!

People do things off their own bat, not back as some seem to think.

A friend refers to herself as a ‘Country Pumkin’ - I don’t have the heart to correct her!

Sorry scottiebear my comment was for your ‘should of’

Oh that really ‘gets my goat’

I spit tacks when I'm really cross!

The one that irritates me is when people say 'Spitting feathers' when they mean angry. Spitting feathers refers to being very thirsty. When you're very angry, you spit fire.

Scottiebear

I have a bugbear about the use of 'should of' rather than 'should have'.

Even worse is when the 'have' is changed to 'of'

Spangler I love finding out about the origins of our idiomatic phrases and sayings. By coincidence, (ain't the internet grand?) I was looking at the Wikipedia entries for various occupations, just the other day and, while reading about fullers, the origin of tenterhooks came up. Auto correct substituted 'generations' there, Shortlegs, but I typed the word I wanted and applied my teacher's rule!

I had a cleaner whose daughter lived “ over a dellincontestant”
I did suggest she just referred to it as a deli

My mum used to say "San fairy Ann" when I was a kid. It was a long time before I realised why, or where it came from. :-)

When my sister was a toddler, Adam Faith's hit 'Poor Me' was in the top ten and often on the radio. I just looked up the lyrics because the words were mostly incomprehensible. The line goes, 'Sit and cry, that this was meant to be,' but my little sister heard and repeated, 'Sit and cry, assa sessa pee,' so we always sang that when the song came on. ?

I have a bugbear about the use of 'should of' rather than 'should have'.

As a child I often wondered what was meant by an escaped goat. My teacher always encouraged us to look up the meaning of words that we didn't understand, so the first time that I came across scapegoat, I discovered that it's a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency. But it's origins are Biblical, when the sins of the Jews were symbolically laid upon a goat and it was sent off into the wilderness. You live and learn.

Shortlegs Hey! I passed O level English Language (OK, over 50 years ago) but I still get caught out by autocorrect because I know I can spell and I know what I've typed! My fault is in forgetting to apply my teacher's rule before sending: Always read what you've written!

I'm currently in mourning for the terminal decline of the apostrphe.

I hate it when contestants on Count Down ask for a "continent" or a "constant".

My all-time favourites have to be 'not necesscelery' and 'hydra-dangers'.

I was under the impression that if you are using social media it was compulsory to have a poor grasp of English grammar, spelling etc. The get out clause always seems to be "damned predictive text".

Unfortunately Lucca we are stuck with the joker.

MawB2

I’m thinking Gadarene swine??

Very true! ?