Looking for a longmore?

Long more sounds fine to me.You know what she meant.

Just a thought - was it predictive text and she didn't read it before she posted, alternatively is she dyslexic?

Germanshepherdsmum

I’ve tried, but can’t imagine a dialect in which ‘lawnmower’ becomes ‘longmore’.

It might just be possible if you combined Glaswegian and Merseyside!

👍🏻

Like the American way of pronunciation - "I dove into the swimming pool"

kircubbin2000

Don't understand Dove or cove. What should it be?

It was Dove….like the bird….but I pronounced dove like cove at the beach.
Now someone tell me I’ve been pronouncing cove wrong all these years 🤣

Don't understand Dove or cove. What should it be?

Beechnut

For years I always used to think a nearby antique shop was called Dove (as in cove) Antiques. One day the penny dropped.

Still working on it 🤔

For years I always used to think a nearby antique shop was called Dove (as in cove) Antiques. One day the penny dropped.

Well there you go then…it could end up in the dictionary.
A bit like “hoovering”

I typed "lornmore" into here, and my spellcheck suggested 'long more', 'Long More' and (wait for it) 'lawnmower'.
I know its not the spelling the OP used, but I can see how it happened.

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.

Blimey welbeck. Frightening.

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

Granmarderby10

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

bet he lives in a large hice

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

And I do so love a canayp Daddima

I read that as capybaras.

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

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

And I do so love a canayp Daddima

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?

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😄

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

Callistemon213

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

Me too, calli.

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.