grammar question

My pronunciation bugbear - more and more often announcers referring to a serious instead of series!

"You can have a cup of coffee but you may not" is what my old teacher used to say. Think she'd combust if she heard all this "can I get" stuff!

I have heard one brave barrista reply to a bemused customer, ' No it's OK I will get it for you'

WONDERFUL!!
Thanks GNs I don't feel so alone.

'Do you have' not 'Have you got'
Comprises not comprises of......yes, thank you, it drives me crazy too
Regional/cultural pronunciation is fine but when everyone starts doing it, I object....it's aitch (H) not haitch.
Different from.....(aaah not just me, then)

Still no clear rule for 'which' and 'that' - come on all you retired English Grammar teachers.......

Just a small addition to this thread. Why have presenters started saying "crate" instead of "crEate"? Is it my hearing?

And pence are not 'pee'!

Further to pronunciation ("nucular" etc) has anybody listened to the announcements at the taxi level of Euston Station?
"Please do not take luggage on the escUlator, customers are advised to use the lifts."

Is that esc-you-lator, alea, or esc-u-lator, where the u in the second is a northern vowel sound as in mug?

I understand the which or that rule to be that if what comes before it is a complete sentence without what follows, then you use which.

e.g. I own this broomstick, which I'm about to fly on to the next gransnet party.

The broomstick that I enjoy flying on the most is over there.

What about 'tor' instead of 'too-er' for 'tour'? (Not bad grammar, but I'm in Rant Mode!)

I say 'tor'. I also call the Yorkshire Moors the Yorkshire 'Mors'.

I don't care!

My pet hate is the incorrect usage of practice and practise, noun and verb. I pointed the difference to my childrens teacher a number of years ago, she asked if it really mattered. Grrrr.
As well as that..... 'Aswell' also winds me up.

You rebel you!

Everyone knows it's the Yorkshire mours.

My iPad tried to change it to amours!

Which is just for Cathy and Heathcliffe.

GrandmaMia I used to teach my Y6 the difference by pointing out that 'ice' is a noun so practICE is the noun and therefore practISE is the verb.

Most of the above drive me mad I was in town this morning and I heard a mum say to her son 'stop egnoring me when I am speaking to you'. That's quite a common one around these parts. Good job I'm perfect that's all I can say.

So pleased to see the 'bored of' horror debated. I have this argument on a weekly basis with DD who is a grammar Nazi on most things, but refuses to,accept that it should be 'bored with'.
Good mnemonic Anya. I used to teach that if you can put 'nice' in front of it then 'practice' is needed. Probably because I usually taught younger children who would get parts of speech names confused.

'As well' I've yet to see but I seem to fight a losing battle to keep 'all right' rather than 'alright'. Maybe it doesn't much matter.
In fact where I live 'Awright?' seems to be the greeting of choice. The response is, of course 'Awright?'.
Should someone be offered, for example, a cup of tea and not want one all too often the response is 'I'm all right' instead of 'No thank you'.

Recently I find myself spelling out double letters 'ess, ess'instead of saying 'double s' as I've often had people on the phone mistake w for any double letter and spell a word back to me as, for instance 'a,w,se,w,s' for assess.

You'll have to use the phonetic alphabet Eirel because my real name contains several letter 'F's this is often misheard on the telephone as 'S' so I tried saying 'Foxtrot' instead.

You learn a lot about the person on the other end of the 'phone that way. I've had several 'yer whats?'

Another bug bear, and I've had it even from TP students, is 'a lot' written as 'alot' and one who even tried to tell me thst it was 'awright' to write it that way. And these will be teaching our youngsters

Ana I say 'mors' too, but the spelling of 'tour' is different! Perhaps it's a dialect thing?

I wonder if 'always' and 'allright' were frowned upon in the same way when they were first used. Possibly not. I think there was more leeway for inventiveness in writing when fewer people knew the 'rules'.

BTW, my Oxford and Cambridge educated school English teacher told me allright should be spelled with a double el. "Allright is the place where all is right". I often see it with only one.

I expect always was once all ways. Why isn't it all times? Hmmm...

Say muir if you're fussed. I say mors and I come from Yorkshire so no-one can tell me how to say Yorkshire Moors.

same vowel sound in york and moor. Easy.