Are you irritated by incorrect grammar.

Well said, MissA.

Too many former teachers on here with the dreaded red pen to mark our papers!?

Personally, I think it rude and unkind to correct anyone who has made an obvious error and I cringe when I witness posters being taken to task on GN. At this age, I care not a jot as the content of a post is more important for me.

Kalu, I always used a green pen!!! ?

Boz

All that really grates on me is using a breathy H when talking about the letter "aitch". I think it come about from a fear of dropping your H and looking ignorant.

In N Ireland people who say haitch are Catholics. I don't know why that is but I don't know any protestants who pronounce it that way.

I see autocorrect doesn't give protestants a capital letter!

I always had you down as the edgy type Marydoll? I’m afraid our teachers only ever saw red, in bold letters??

‘They’ bought in the bloody green pen thing because they reckoned that red was aggressive and upset the kids.
The reality was that green pen didn’t show up in the page easily, didn’t photocopy well and the pens weren’t widely available.
I bought boxes and boxes of Staedtler bottle green fine liners.
I still have dozens of the things!

GD1 had a teacher from the north east of England who, when teaching pupils the alphabet, insisted on pronouncing aitch as haitch, which shows up underlined in red as I type.

I made the mistake of correcting her to no avail as her reply was, whatever the teacher said was correct! Grr.

Fanny, forty forty five years ago at university, my fountain pen contained green ink. I was so ahead of my time! ?

Mary that’s brilliant!
I went through a phase of brown ink in my fountain pen.
Oh for the days when you could choose which colour pen to use!
At one school I worked at the kids, teachers and TAs had to use five different colour pens for strictly differentiated activities.
It was a flipping nightmare.
You’d spend literally half of every lesson going through the presentation policy (DUMTUMS - did you have that?) and the pen policy! ?

The only thing that upset me Fanny was seeing the word ‘wrong’ not what colour it was written in.

Obviously showing my age as I had no idea green pens are now used to soften the blow. ?

Oh, and then they became evangelical about cursive?

FannyCornforth

In fact, everytime I see the title of this thread, I am really, really irritated!

Everytime should be written as two separate words: every time. While some compound words like everywhere, everyday, and everyone have become commonplace in the English language, everytime is not considered an acceptable compound word

Small tip from a once impoverished student nurse. Buy a bottle of pearlised white nail polish, mix a small amount with coloured ink and, voila, instant eye catching green, blue or red finger nails. Those were the days. ?

This is the funniest thread for ages! Everyone's posting to point out the errors of previous posts and, in so doing, slips up themselves! We're all tripping over ourselves!

That is what grammarly says, anyway.

eazybee

Coastpath makes the point that her mum's education was lacking, but writes that she seized the opportunity to improve her learning at night school, as so many did.
Angela Rayner considers she has no need to improve her grammar, or lack of education, which is shocking coming from someone who was for a time Shadow Secretary of State for Education.

She is not talking about grammatical errors, but accent.

Melvyn Bragg describes well the snobism he met when he went to Grammar school- mocked about his Lancashire accent and sayings. He got rid, very fast, as it was the only way to go up the ladder. Sad, I think.

I remember the Dean of my University, at our inauguration lecture- telling us we had to get rid of our local accents if we wanted to progress in the teaching profession- in the strongest klipped South African accent.

So much snobbism and false superiority linked to accent and grammar.

Kathy but the difference is, I’m not setting myself up as the Grammar Police.
I don’t give a stuff about Angela Rayner’s grammar, which is what the op was about.
I was just trying to apply a ‘glass houses’ policy

kircubbin2000 my husband, who is of a Catholic family in Belfast does not say haitch. But my children, from a probably predominantly Protestant S Hampshire, bought up by an atheist mother, do. It’s how they were taught using the Letter Land alphabet.

'Febury' cripples me every time. Ugh!

That odd about Letterland. That programme was taught in all our local schools and the h sound was always silent.

Not in this version Marydoll maybe Scotland had a different one.

Not very readable: Harry Hat Man (h as in hen)

Jaxjacky

Not very readable: Harry Hat Man (h as in hen)

But (I think) that is the phoneme / grapheme correspondence; as opposed to the ‘letter name’, which is aitch

I’m not au fait with Letterland, but I’ve earned my stripes phonics wise