Looking for a longmore?

I will always think of it as a longmore from now on. 🙂

Granmarderby10

I suppose if you’ve not done much reading it is easier to just repeat phonetically what you may have grown up hearing.
Reading is so important for me as it has helped me recognise when a spelling just does not look “right” to me and to use a dictionary.
The drawers thing is an easy if lazy mistake but the chester is due to listening to poor grammar and pronunciation.
I knew of someone who thought the word chimney was pronounced as “chimpney” into adulthood until corrected ( not by me) I had just assumed she had a nasal complaint! 😸
Some words have - sort of, become irrelevant to most youngsters.
In our house (as kids) we even used to read the cereal packets out loud at breakfast for example ..just because. It is a habit.

I agree, and not everyone does much reading do they, so wouldn’t know the correct spelling.I can imagine Hastings from Line Of Duty saying longmores for lawnmowers😃
My DP says chimley for chimney, we’re both Londoners but that was what his parents and friends called a chimney.
There are loads of reasons for misspelling, travellers who’ve not had much education and those with dyslexia or autism as well as not having seen a certain word written, but just heard it said.
Firms and newspapers have no excuse for it, but individuals do.

Granmarderby10

I had at first thought that the OP was referring to a
“grand estate” named Longmore?
I’ve been longing for that most of my life

😂

When I was young my siblings and I thought everyone learned to read by reading cereal packets on the breakfast table. We certainly did, at least in part. Probably mispronounced a lot of the words too. It did us no harm and even though our parents would tell us correct pronunciations (and grammar), I reckon it prepared us to be tolerant when other people mispronounce words.

A good dose of Taoist 'chill' never goes amiss.

I had at first thought that the OP was referring to a
“grand estate” named Longmore?
I’ve been longing for that most of my life

"Chimbley" where I come from, grammarderby 😁

My dad – very well educated – used to say Chester Drawers because he thought it was fun. He also called a street in Leeds "Gipton Apricotch" because that's what he 'read' when he first cycled past it in his youth. It actually said Gipton Approach.

Similarly, when I'm talking to family members I might well say "veehickle" for vehicle because when I was about eight and noticing road signs, that's what it seemed to say. My dad told me the correct pronunciation but we stuck with veehickle between ourselves For FUN!

MrB and I still use a lot of Minibaggs's toddler words for fun too. Computers are ompinters in our house.

All such things are enjoyable!

I suppose if you’ve not done much reading it is easier to just repeat phonetically what you may have grown up hearing.
Reading is so important for me as it has helped me recognise when a spelling just does not look “right” to me and to use a dictionary.
The drawers thing is an easy if lazy mistake but the chester is due to listening to poor grammar and pronunciation.
I knew of someone who thought the word chimney was pronounced as “chimpney” into adulthood until corrected ( not by me) I had just assumed she had a nasal complaint! 😸
Some words have - sort of, become irrelevant to most youngsters.
In our house (as kids) we even used to read the cereal packets out loud at breakfast for example ..just because. It is a habit.

I don't think my OP was unkind - and in any case, the person who posted about 'longmores' is highly unlikely to see this anyway, not to mention the fact that this site is anonymous.

MissInterpreted

Marydoll

This thread has been indeed amusing.

However, imagine that you became aware that you had been mocked on social media for your, ignorance/lack of education/poor spelling\inaccurate grammar, etc.,etc. How would you feel? I think I would be mortified.

So why bother having a 'Pedants' Corner' on here at all then? Do you make the same comments about all threads on here?

I am a pedant, however there are ways of commenting on errors, without mocking. I often visit Pedant's/Pedants' corner, but try not to be unkind.

FYI, I do comment on other threads, if I feel posters are being unpleasant.

My very clever Dyslexic DGD used to write

Eye won one or I 1 1

She much preferred Maths to !nglish as she xplaned that numbar fore all ways meant 4 things, .2 = 2 things, not going to sumewhair and 8 was 8 things not what U had for T and 40 was quite a lot butt knot what U were best at and sew on anon

Marydoll

This thread has been indeed amusing.

However, imagine that you became aware that you had been mocked on social media for your, ignorance/lack of education/poor spelling\inaccurate grammar, etc.,etc. How would you feel? I think I would be mortified.

So why bother having a 'Pedants' Corner' on here at all then? Do you make the same comments about all threads on here?

Marydoll👍

This thread has been indeed amusing.

However, imagine that you became aware that you had been mocked on social media for your, ignorance/lack of education/poor spelling\inaccurate grammar, etc.,etc. How would you feel? I think I would be mortified.

Q : What should you say to comfort a grammar Nazi?
A : There, their, they're

RosiesMaw

Oh I remember a reference to reefs from a thread about burials v. cremation

There are wonderful woven coffins available smile. At natural burial grounds, flowers and reefs on diabolically toxic polystirene bases are not allowed at all.

I was once in a shop that had Christmas Reefs for sale…

In an interview with Prince Harry a while back, Aveline, I was surprised to here him say exactly that!

I, apparently, speak something called Norfolk but I learned to write in English. It seems there is a difference.

I notice how many people (on tv and radio as well as real life) speak really badly. No attention seems to be given to speech in schools, and yet it is very important. With clear speech nobody could confuse ‘chest of drawers’ with ‘Chester draws’.

Celieanne86

I saw an advert yesterday for a six BIRTH CARAVAN. No thank you I’ll stick with the three births I had. I did laugh though as it looked like a lovely caravan.

😂😂😂

Chester draws? Certainly sounds nothing like chest of drawers.
Looking on these local sites the standard of spelling and comprehension is woeful. The education system had failed so many.

I thought it might be Scots. It read like lawnmower to me. Funny nonetheless less.

I advertised my wee flat on Gumtree and got one reply which I was about to dismiss. The spelling was so awful.

A friend said he may be dyslexic and indeed he was. We let the flat to him and he was a perfectly good tenant. He was actually a singer/songwriter.

but how would most people know that, about chest of drawers.
i doubt many people have ever seen it written down.
chester draws is exactly what it sounds like and is perfectly understandable.
it's not going to be confused with a table or a lamp, is it.
so the purpose of language is fulfilled, to communicate information or a meaning.
(i probably don't belong in this corner, just wandered in for a look round...)

She's Scottish, not in Belfast, by the way...