Are you irritated by incorrect grammar.

You should read Shakespeare and Chaucer!

I don't think anyone has said that they actually correct someone, but we're allowed to think our thoughts.

I didn’t comment on that person’s IQ. I know that particular politician to be vey intelligent.
I just said that subconsciously bad grammar leads me to believe that a person is not so bright.

It astounds me how many people on the Facebook forums use "there" and "their" and "to" and "too" incorrectly. I clearly remember being taught these at infant school and my GC, aged 8 and 6 know the difference. How can adults not know?

I have just received a work email, about 25 lines long asking me to do something. It hasn't got a single piece of punctuation in it, not even a solitary full stop. I've read it several times and can't make head nor tail of what she wants me to do so I'm going to ignore it.
Reasonably accurate punctuation, not perfect but reasonable, does matter especially when giving instructions. After all 'Let's eat, Grandma' and 'Let's eat Grandma' mean totally different things.

My grammar is far from perfect but what really irritates me, and it seems to have become more frequent recently, is starting a sentence with 'Myself and OH' instead of OH and I.

Soroptimum

How about Priti Patel dropping her ‘g’s?
I have 2 bugbears - using invite as a noun (it’s a verb, invitation is the noun), and ‘very unique’. If something is unique it’s unique- it can’t be ‘very’!!!

invite as a noun, meaning an invitation, is in the Oxford Shorter dictionary. It's not new. It was used by WH Auden, apparently, but predates that be several centuries according to other sources.

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.

crazyH

On the other hand:
Three hundred and fifty pounds were stolen ? Just asking……

It's a confusing one, I know, but sums of money usually take a single verb.

eazybee

I have discovered another use of a word to annoy me, courtesy of Mrs. Rayner: the use of 'critique' as a verb.
' I've been on the media this morning so my accent and grammar are being critiqued'.
In my three dictionaries 'critique' is a noun, but online dictionaries quote it as a noun and a verb.
What is wrong with criticized, or criticised, whichever you prefer?

eazybee.

The verb form of critique is in my thirty-year- old Oxford Shorter dictionary. '

On the other hand:
Three hundred and fifty pounds were stolen ? Just asking……

kathsue

Just heard on local radio that £350 were stolen from a charity box. It sounded wrong to me. I would have said £350 was stolen. It wasn't as if there were 350 individual pound coins.
Maybe one of gransnet's pedants can enlighten me.

I would say that you are correct, because it is one sum of money.

Do you live in Yorkshire perhaps?

Just heard on local radio that £350 were stolen from a charity box. It sounded wrong to me. I would have said £350 was stolen. It wasn't as if there were 350 individual pound coins.
Maybe one of gransnet's pedants can enlighten me.

The only time I would correct anyone's grammar is if they asked me (nobody does) or if some rude individual is hurling personal and ungrammatical insults at me on Facebook - which has happened a couple of times - because they don't agree with / like my point of view. I don't feel any qualms about being impolite to such individuals.

... I then wait for the inevitable response along the lines of the last rude individual who told me to "get a life, looser [sic]"...

Not in speech, particularly with different accents. And not on forum posts so long as I can understand what the poster means. But on official letters, forms, posters - yes.

Yes, ‘we was’ would definitely grate on me, and it’d affect my opinion of the speaker.
I once worked with a qualified EFL teacher who said it, and refused to adapt when speaking to her (Arabic speaking) students, even though it was confusing them. She was a very arsey type though.

Ditto people dropping Ts all over the place. I sometimes think they’re actually instructed to do it, even on the Beeb, in order to sound un-posh.

Ditto leaving the ‘g’ off ‘ing’ endings. Goin’, bringin’, etc.

And while I’m at it, people writing kinda, sorta, too, though I don’t see that on GN - plenty on MN though.

I’ve been known to write on posters in shops/banks etc the correct spelling/punctuation, much to my DH’s embarrassment.

Slightly off piste I listen every night to a sleep story on an app to help me fall asleep (and stop worrying). I chose a brand new one last night all set in an old fashioned book shop. It was very atmospheric until the reader said ‘the shop was a few blocks away’ surely that is an American description, followed by sidewalk instead of pavement. I did fall asleep but won’t listen to it again.

Innit

In a swift word..... YES

Wo’evva

Do you mean “who woz it”

Many years ago as a new teacher intent on ironing out Geordie accents when a boy said "Miss, X keeps 'ittin' us" I said "You mean "X keeps hitting me". Child looked at me mystified and said "No Miss 'e's not 'ittin' you."
Eventually I adapted and got to love the accent and there is a ;lot of "Yous was" or "Yous'll have to" in it.

I get annoyed by apostrophes in the wrong place on public signs - Shopfitter's, etc.

But in general no, it doesn't bother me too much.

I absolutely cannot stand posters coming on and correcting people's grammar. You see this a lot on mumsnet. It's unbelievably rude. It's also usually misplaced.

I'm an English graduate and write for a living. When I'm writing a quick post I will often include typos or miss an apostrophe or comma.

I don't need some patronising idiot giving me a lesson in spelling and grammar, thanks.

I noticed Angela Rayner's 'slip' this morning, but I didn't for a second think that it betrayed a low IQ. To be honest, I think that anyone who links dialect with IQ can't be too bright - there is no link whatsoever.

To me, a sign of someone with a good education is that they have learned (or been taught) not to judge someone others by the way they speak, but by what they say, and there are several posts on this thread that I'm judging pretty harshly.