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A shocker from our MP! (NB, for pedants only!)

(90 Posts)
Chewbacca Fri 14-Aug-20 00:32:24

You're kidding! Really? That's a shocker!

MissAdventure Fri 14-Aug-20 00:30:29

Do you remember the text I got from the school?

"If your child has accidentally brung home the wrong coat..."

Chewbacca Fri 14-Aug-20 00:26:10

I was looking online for a specific poem earlier today and came across a website of poetry for schools to use during lessons. One of the categories was "Smypathy Poems". I ask you!

welbeck Fri 14-Aug-20 00:19:00

that sounds like the great fork doesn't rhyme with pork thread on MN.
all over the country people were muttering to themselves on trains and buses, pork, fork, in puzzled tones.
as the other passengers inched away from them...
apparently in some areas they do not rhyme.
no, i don't understand it either.

Alexa Thu 13-Aug-20 23:50:11

Scottish speakers simply don' t make errors like that . A Scot pronounces kerb and curb very differently.

MawB Thu 13-Aug-20 23:45:57

I think he needs to tow the line, personally.
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welbeck Thu 13-Aug-20 22:58:09

guttersnipes.

lemongrove Thu 13-Aug-20 22:46:19

I hope there isn’t going to be any curb crawling?

FarNorth Thu 13-Aug-20 22:44:03

A couple of times lately, I've seen 'we must do our upmost...'
(even autocorrect didn't want to go with that one, just now).

sodapop Mon 22-Jun-20 14:57:31

That's the sad thing MaizieD when people don't realise its wrong.

MaizieD Mon 22-Jun-20 13:48:56

I'm reading a very recently published book in which the writer is frequently 'pouring' over data.

I put it down to auto-corrects and very poor proofreading.

MawB Mon 22-Jun-20 13:28:59

Oh I have seen that one (from somebody else)
He or his secretary needs a severe talking to.
And to stand in the corner
And to write out the respective definitions 100x each.
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Charleygirl5 Mon 22-Jun-20 13:23:52

He should read what he signs!

vampirequeen Mon 22-Jun-20 12:46:40

grin Maybe they intend to smack each offender into a kerb but surely that would come under corporal punishment grin

Witzend Mon 22-Jun-20 12:42:09

Dh just forwarded an email from our LibDem MP, with a headline saying that the council is planning to ‘kerb’ anti social behaviour.
I dare say it may have been an aide who wrote it, but still....