grammar question

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.

Which is just for Cathy and Heathcliffe.

My iPad tried to change it to amours!

Everyone knows it's the Yorkshire mours.

You rebel you!

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.

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

I don't care!

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

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.

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

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."

And pence are not 'pee'!

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

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.......

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

"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!

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

Nobodysays, "Can I have a coffee please?"
Instead it's, "Can I get a skinny latte frappuchino?"

Ugh...

I'm with you there, KatyK - 'sick' instead of sixth drives me mad, too. DG watches the Grand Prix, and it's amazing how many drivers are 'sick' at some stage of each race!

And
"he won 'three thousand pound' " rather than 'pounds'

'get off of'

also new words...listening to the radio this afternoon and a reporter referred to 'emotionality' when 'emotion' would have been perfectly adequate.

Though I do think some of the ' He were sat sitting there' could be argued to be dialect rather than poor grammar!

My mum found it hard to roll her Rs ..it is the same as having a lisp!
But at least she did not call my brother Rory..I had a colleague who had a son that she lovingly referred to a 'Worwy' more thoughtless really rather than wrong!

It's like 'secetary'. Lazy speech...[cross emoticon, angry would be a bit OTT]

Yes that's probably more like it Ana sickth but I did hear someone last week who definitely said sick. Drives me mad.

Don't they tend to say 'sickth'? Similar to my complaint somewhere before about 'fith'

And sick - as in this is the sick time this has happened or he came sick in the race (instead of sixth).

I dislike all the misused or mispronounced words mentioned, but my particular hates are "bored of" and "nucular", with "haitch" coming next, followed by "crated" instead of "created".