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It's 'YOU'RE Fired.'
Without sounding like a snotty pedant, I just have to point out that the show that follows the Apprentice is called:
'The Apprentice: You're Fired'. NOT: 'The Apprentice Your Fired' as some people have renamed it. Yes, yes, pedantic, but it needs to be said. It's a mistake made an alarming amount on this forum.
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Absolutely right, completely agree!
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Can't be worse than SAS continually saying "You wuz..."
Or maybe that's just his "man of the people" thing? :yawn: |
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Can't be worse than SAS continually saying "You wuz..."
Or maybe that's just his "man of the people" thing? :yawn:
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I agree completely
![]() It also bugs me when people put "to" instead of "too" and "too" instead of "to" ![]() Oh and "its" instead of "it's", think I'll stop there lol i could go on all night
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How about these persistent errors:
"loose" instead of "lose" "ect" instead of "etc" "could of" instead of "could've" ![]() I don't know what they teach in schools these days, but judging by the standard of writing in the majority of forum posts they don't seem to cover the English language. |
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How about these persistent errors:
"loose" instead of "lose" "ect" instead of "etc" "could of" instead of "could've" ![]() I don't know what they teach in schools these days, but judging by the standard of writing in the majority of forum posts they don't seem to cover the English language.
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Hurrah, I'm not alone!
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Rolls over time and again in pedant heaven.......
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Hurrah, I'm not alone!
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Your dead right, its so annoying !
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There is a pedants forum on General Discussions.
I would consider ect to be a typo rather than a grammatical error. |
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Your dead right, its so annoying !
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What annoys me most is when you see a sign saying something like...
"APPLE'S £1"
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What annoys me most is when you see a sign saying something like...
"APPLE'S £1" ![]() |
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Without sounding like a snotty pedant, I just have to point out that the show that follows the Apprentice is called:
'The Apprentice: You're Fired'. NOT: 'The Apprentice Your Fired' as some people have renamed it. Yes, yes, pedantic, but it needs to be said. It's a mistake made an alarming amount on this forum. ![]() |
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There is a pedants forum on General Discussions.
I would consider ect to be a typo rather than a grammatical error. I think it probably comes from the way they say it (eck cetra), having never seen it written down (et cetera). Similarly they've probably never seen ‘could have’ (or could've) written down so they write to the nearest equivalent pronunciation (could of). Now that ‘ask’ is being increasingly pronounced as ‘arks’ by younger people in the south of England it’s only a matter of time until we see it in written form in web forums like this. I must have a look at the pedants thread! |
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I saw another really stupid error on ITV Nightscreen this morning.
While giving information about an episode of Emmerdale, they informed us that one of the characters with mental health issue was going to go for "councilling". Nothing more needs to be said, does it? |
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ooh! when people type or say that they went to a shop and brought something when they actually mean bought!
phew! I feel better now!
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What about when people say "Nuke-u-lar" instead of "Nuclear"? Even some newsreaders do this, and I think George Bush does it too. What's going on there? It's not just pronouncing it wrongly, it's actually rearranging the order of the letters. Weird.
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really?
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How about these persistent errors:
"loose" instead of "lose" "ect" instead of "etc" "could of" instead of "could've" ![]() I don't know what they teach in schools these days, but judging by the standard of writing in the majority of forum posts they don't seem to cover the English language. Omg, am i seriously doing that wrong? As an A Level English student, i am shocked at myself
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How about these persistent errors:
"could of" instead of "could've" ![]() |
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