grammar question

how come no-one has mentioned the dreaded '

I hate it when you see a sign that says potatoe's

grr

it's not difficult!!

I'm always accused of being pedantic, but "could of" and "bored of" are surely the thin end of the wedge, and will become accepted if we don't shout. According to my children "different to" is now taught at University. It was "similar to" and "different from" in my day, which is surely more logical. Another irritation is the constant use of "y'know" when I don't anyway! I counted 21 from one golfer interviewed this week.

My Yorks pals say 'Oop on't Muers'

Which is probably why one of my DD's pupils (secondary English) appeared convinced DD had misspelled the date on the whiteboard.

'Miss, you've put an extra 'r' in Febewry!'

February seems to have all but lost its first 'r' these days - it's nearly always pronounced 'Feb-yew-ry'...

Yes. One does.

Also things such as September 11. What happened to the 11th of September?

Of course, jinglbellsfrocks, it's true, one does need to be in control of one's tongue, lips, and teeth.

or losing your teeth.

and you are in danger of spitting.

It's very difficult! The 'ss' and the 'xthhh' seem to go on forever!

Why do people pronounce 6th as sickth? I know it is supposed to be acceptable but it's not that hard to pronounce the x before the th. It seems lazy to me. Jeremy Paxman even says sickth. Maybe we should call him Jeremy Packthman.

I would say the English version is 'have you got' whereas the Americans say 'do you have'.

That's why when I ask an American "have you got x?" they reply with "no, I don't" because another American would have asked them "do you have x?" An Englishman would reply No, I haven't.

But that's one of my biggest bugbears - people not understanding the question tag correctly

I keep hearing reporters on news programmes saying 'amblance' or 'amb uh lance' whereas I was brought up pronouncing it as amb yew lance.

We call them alligators anyway.

I'm afraid it is * escYOUlator* , thatbags I am not not sure I would hear the difference between "escalator" and "escuhlator" in the standard station announcement delivered as it is with the nose clenched firmly between forefinger and thumb ,and the head in a bucket.

same vowel sound in york and moor. Easy.

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.

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...

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

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

'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.

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.

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.