Looking for a longmore?

My very clever Dyslexic DGD used to write

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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.

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.

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.

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!

"Chimbley" where I come from, grammarderby 😁

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.

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

😂

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.

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

MissInterpreted

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.

I didn't say your OP was unkind. I commented on the fact that I would be mortified if I was being talked about on social media in a mocking way. I think you may have misinterpreted what I was saying.
There are posters on GN, who are very quick to jump in and not always in a kind manner, point out errors in posts.

If you think the site is anonymous, you are a wrong. A number of posters have either left or changed their user name, because they have been outed.

What does irritate me (as a pedant, with dyslexic tendences) is when posters write pedants corner.
Should it not be Pedant's Corner or Pedants' Corner, (depending on how many are reading the thread) or am I just being fussy or totally inaccurate? 😉

BTW, despite previewing three time, I have found errors, you may find others.
None of us are perfect.

Callistemon213

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

Me too, calli.

“More poo (horse manure) for the the flars” often said by someone at our local agricultural college.

Granmarderby10

“More poo (horse manure) for the the flars” often said by someone at our local agricultural college.

Either very posh or an East Londoner😄

Need to be careful with longmores, in case you run over one of these.

My friend was horrified when she realised she had been talking to her new, posh neighbour about having drinks and ‘canayps’, as they called them, and don’t we all call them ‘muriels’, a la Hilda Ogden?

And I do so love a canayp Daddima

Oreo definitely quite posh, he was head of the equestrian department 🐎

Baggs

Callistemon213

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

Me too, calli.

I keep practising it and can imagine our dear Irish friend saying it

Granmarderby10

And I do so love a canayp Daddima

I read that as capybaras.

All the letters, not necessarily in the right order. Or as this pic says I'm playing all the right team not necessarily in the right positions.

Granmarderby10

Oreo definitely quite posh, he was head of the equestrian department 🐎

bet he lives in a large hice

some of you might 'enjoy' this discussion over on MN,

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5106024-my-job-share-teacher-has-poor-spelling?page=4&reply=136319079

Blimey welbeck. Frightening.

welbeck

some of you might 'enjoy' this discussion over on MN,

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5106024-my-job-share-teacher-has-poor-spelling?page=4&reply=136319079

I remember one Mum I know marching into school because the teacher corrected her child's spelling.

The child was right, the teacher wrong.

Poor teacher, she was never very good at spelling, she must have been among that generation of pupils which was told correcting spelling and grammar stifled the imagination.