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News headline "Eat healthy"

(8 Posts)
Sparklefizz Tue 14-Feb-23 08:16:10

"Eat healthy" ... Grrr No!! It's eat healthily.

NanKate Tue 14-Feb-23 08:18:57

Absolutely Sparklefizz 👍

Greta Tue 14-Feb-23 10:27:19

You'll also have seen "Find your Perfect". "Find your Happy".

grandtanteJE65 Tue 14-Feb-23 17:40:35

Eat healthy! What or whom?

My pet hate is "It was a fun day"

No, it cannot ever be a fun day, it might have been a day with a lot of good fun, or one on which you had fun, or even a funny day, although this last is probably something completely different to what the person who talked about a fun day meant!

Chardy Tue 14-Feb-23 17:51:39

Adverbs will be an extinct species one day.

Germanshepherdsmum Tue 14-Feb-23 18:01:12

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Mollygo Tue 14-Feb-23 18:01:17

My pet hate is very fun. It seems to be creeping in to descriptions.

Yammy Tue 14-Feb-23 18:17:41

I'm not hot on punctuation but even to me Eat healthy is either an instruction, so I say to myself "No I won't, or I want to say what is healthy and where can I buy it?
The one that gets me is a sign saying "Pick your own". I used to pass it every day and my boss used to ask me what I'd scratched each day. Her pet hate was "Plant crossing".