Another grumble....

The use of ‘conversated’ instead of ‘conversed’ seems to be used a lot lately.

Rectified??

I always assume these 'errors' lie in the lap of predictive text rather than any ignorance or lack of education on the part of the sender.o

I saw one for sale ward rope

Being a historian of comparative religion, I read redified as re-deified meaning making someone a god for a second time. I doubt even the late Roman emperors actually did so,

Thank you all for many good laughs and yet another reason why I don't like Facebook.

The response 'good' to the question 'How are you' sets my teeth on edge!

Ooh 'scarey'.... Grrr

I too have seen chester draws! My latest bugbear - I seem to have rather a lot! - is 'hotting up' instead of 'heating up'.

pedant's hat on

Weren't we all born illiterate? (Even in the 21st century)

pedant's hat off

One of the funniest I've ever seen was an expectant father excitedly telling the world that his wife was having 'contraptions'!

Great Twitter one - someone's Grama (Grandma) had die of beeties (diabetes).

Loose instead of lose, calandar and'super' as in 'super fun!'

sarahellenwhitney

I too had a cane wielding English teacher - who like yours would most certainly "pounce" . . . . I LOVED her . . . she looked and dressed like Dolly Parton . . . . she certainly encouraged my sesquipedalian tendencies . . . . I can't get to grips with many of the FB "shorts" though. . . .

Bathsheba
Your 'rendering' comment made me smile
I cringe when listening to these so called educated persons and have visions of my cane wielding English teacher walking amongst the class ready to pounce on the unfortunate who as she informed us had most certainly been born illiterate.
Doubt that 21C she would have got away with that comment.

The one that annoys me is"do you ship this couple". Seems to mean they make a nice couple.

Hate the the phrase ‘so fun’ , seems to be in use a lot in the States........

I was surprised when I read a letter complaining about some black bits found in a tin of peaches. The writer said that she had rinsed the peaches to remove the black bits and the peaches were then consummated !

I once worked with a girl who's adored boyfriend was up there on a 'pedder stool'

One of the posts from someone on my FB page stated that it was "wrapped up like a trustup turkey"

From someone who works in a primary school I saw. 'Are Sam' instead of 'our'. Argh. The funniest I thought was 'good will jester'

'were' and 'did' seem to have disappeared on FB too, replaced with 'was' and 'done'

I spoke with a young person recently about exams and when I said about English Language they said they didn't do grammar in English Language but poetry etc. At my school that was English Literature. It could also explain a lot!

I've seen Chester draws advertised too Gypsy. I think sometimes it's pesky predictive text but yes it sets my teeth on edge.

I did see an advert once for a second hand ‘Chester Draws’ ?

On the local FB selling page recently someone was advertising their hand made "reefs" (wreaths) I wanted to correct him but didn't.
Someone did though as it was edited later that day