Annoyances!

Wow factor!!!! That really winds me up!

Yes to all the above!

I know someone who always 'jumps' in the shower. The mind boggles!

I got told off for mentioning that on a similar thread, anno!
Apparently lots of people do it...

My little grandson did jump in the shower, slipped, fell down, cried and wouldn't have a shower again for weeks!

KateK we're not Australian!
Some of us could be? Just saying? You wouldn't want to offend any of us would you?

The checkout people at our Sainsbury 's jump on a till!

Well "at the end of the day" it get's dark, like! D'ya know what I mean?

If I jumped in the shower, I might go through the bottom of the bath, incurring an almighty insurance claim, not to mention a fractured hip!

What about that upright lady Laura Norder?

More power to your elbow Rosequartz if you're a genuine Aussie! Fab country! (Back-pedalling furiously!!!!) Just don't like the inflection tacked onto that dreadful Estuary English. Don't like Estuary English anyway.

I am not as yet katek but one or two on GN are, I think?

However, DD, SIL and DGC are all Aussies and we spend a lot of time there?

Lol!!

This one is to be found in several places on GN at the moment, but I name no names. It annoys me at work too (I read medical notes and letters and it appears frequently). It is "loose" instead of "lose", as in "she wants to loose weight". Why is it so common, particularly when the two words are pronounced differently? NB, that was a question, with or without an Australian intonation.

Oooh, I do so agree, Wheniwasyourage...

That's a relief, Ana, I thought I might have to go into hiding as it's such a common thing, but at least now we can share the table to hide under. After you!

Another one is 'to' instead of 'too'. They sound different to me, and the meaning certainly is, but obviously not to some...

(Is that table reinforced?)

There are going to be several of us under that table. I told someone recently that I needed to lose weight. Back came the reply "I am trying to loose weight too". Arghh.

I liked the Laura Norder wheniwasyourage will use it as a knock knock joke with DGs

With you and Ana on the loose/lose, to/too, 'too'

Perhaps reading the following link may explain a lot:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2750072/The-teacher-English-graduate-admits-I-m-illiterate-SARAH-SMITH-blames-liberal-education-dogmas-creating-generation-hopelessly-ill-equipped-teachers.html

What I should have said is:

'Perhaps one may be enlightened if one reads this article from the dreadful Daily Mail, the link to which follows:'

Scary though innit?

Doesn't explain why so many of our age-group seem to be affected, though.

People see wandering apostrophes, grammatical errors and misspelling everywhere and think that it must be correct and that they are wrong.

I am nervous about posting now in case my spelling or grammar are not up to scratch.