Are you irritated by incorrect grammar.

Anniebach

No, I am interested in what is being said not how

Same
Also misuse of grammar is often linked to regional accents. My extremely intelligent 6 year old grandchild has a wide vocabulary. I often find myself saying yes x, we were doing xyz. He mixes were and was

I’m listening to an audiobook, the reader keeps saying ‘calmuny ’ instead of calumny and it’s really annoying.

Dickens oh yes!

And another of that ilk that you see on here: ‘do keep up’

End of!

I would never dream of correcting anyone's grammar or spelling - mine's not so hot.

But there is one phrase / sentence that really does grind my gears and I have to sit on my hands if it's in print, or zip my mouth if it's verbal. Those who write or say "end of" after they've made a forceful observation. I find it intolerable. Maybe it's more the attitude behind the 'sentence' rather than its grammar.

Spot on as always maw!

Misuse of ‘myself’ gets me going too. I find once I’ve heard the bad grammar I switch off from what’s being said.

Know what you mean - but there are worse things to worry about with our politicians!

It does irritate me, however, I would never consider calling anyone out for using incorrect grammar.
As for commenting on a person's IQ, I find that unacceptable.

Exactly this. Ditto for poor spelling too.

Oh yes Grandma70s, the I / me thing DOES annoy me! As does the 'should of' irritant! But I don't correct.

It does irritate me, however, I would never consider calling anyone out for using incorrect grammar.
As for commenting on a person's IQ, I find that unacceptable.

I’m very irritated by it. I was brought up that way, with parents who would correct every little mistake.

I’m particularly irritated by the confusion between I and me. I have even heard the Queen get this wrong, saying something like “He gave it to my husband and I”. She should have said me, not I, in that context. After all, you wouldn’t say “He gave it to I”, would you? It’s easy, really.

Or even '..you'd have thought that they'd...' (before I get picked up for mixing tenses... )

My problem is with ‘twenny twenny two’ ! Drives me nuts.

You wouldn't like it here in the NE, Quizzer. 'has went' and 'was sat' are very common.

I get more irritated by supposedly highly educated, literate, people misusing prepositions. You'd think that they'd have picked up correct usage from their extensive reading...

I'm for content every time. I chasten myself every time I do the pedant thing as it distracts me from the topic. I'm SO grateful to have had a wonderful education that I feel shame at criticising others who may not have been so fortunate. As for actually stating a correction...... I shudder at the very thought.

Ilovecheese

I'm not irritated by it at all.

So much snobbery around! Angela Rayner has a really interesting past and path- listen to her achievements, courage, guts- I find her accent annoying, I must say- but who cares!

ooops, with not a word of English!

My MT is French, but I love all local accents, or at least I find them fascinating. And the grammar is often linked to the old local languages, oft brought in by invading tribes in the past. I used to live on the Danelaw border, and you could notice the influence of Saxon and Dane in local speech.

I lived in The Potteries, and got on much better with local accents than Surrey/London flat RP OH. And we then lived in Leicestershire, and same again.

I helped with a group of local people in the Estate near us- and I had no issue with the was/were- it was part of the people and the way they were brought up, and accepted as such, with grace and humour. One old guy was married to my French friend. She arrived in the UK to marry him when she was 55, with not a word of French. She learnt with him and his friends, all lovely people, and she uses the was/were inversion- which is hilarious.

I'm not irritated by it at all.

Rayner has just issued a statement or a tweet or something about being criticised for her grammar today.
James OBrien just read it out

I'm an English teacher and examiner, and I'm with Anniebach. Yes a technically accurate piece of writing (or speech) is nice, but I'm interested in what the person is saying, rather than how, most of the time.

In one of the exams I mark, I am expected to underline every single error. I hate doing it because I feel for the poor student, IF they get their paper back (some schools pay to have them returned).

Rules not rukes.

We keep hearing 'criminality'. Surely criminal activity? When did this become a word.
Language adapts and evolves so it seems just as I strive to improve my english they go and change the rukes. They being the young of course.
Perhaps it is "we was", innit...

Oh, yes, her grammar isn’t great.

FannyCornforth

Who was it?

Angela Rayner