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BBC News: Three villages retook in Ukraine

15 Freya5

Where's the Proof?!

49 windmill1

The Americanisation of English

127 avalon123

Lack of Punctuation

70 Redblueandgreen

Since when is ‘lotion’ a verb?

31 Luckygirl3

Con trib ute or contra bute?

4 Norah

A Question which has always puzzled me

5 Baggs

We are yet to discover....

8 Witzend

Prince William’s speech

108 Aely

Σ sigma. Anyone?

14 Aely

‘Step foot’ instead of ‘set foot’ - I keep seeing it!!

14 Sparklefizz

Apostrophes

47 ixion

Affect/Effect

42 sodapop

Of, of and more of

4 Grammaretto

I keep seeing ‘reindeers’! (In print, I mean.)

19 NonGrannyMoll

Sky News early morning

13 Wheniwasyourage

"A Fashionable State"

8 nanna8

What Do They Teach In Schools........?

70 Allira

Effect/Affect

16 MissAdventure

Waitrose radio ad - ‘The phone rung..’

46 Nannan2

When Will We See The Sun Again?

65 Oreo

Love this!

5 Visgir1

Now It's Officially Halloween - Another Money-Making Spree.......

62 Rodborough49

My Fb bugbear

36 Sago

Wordle/quordle US spellings 🤔

4 notnecessarilywiser

Spilling the tea?

2 Doodledog

I thought you’d appreciate this!

9 Stansgran

How do you write

32 Norah

Found on Facebook ....... enjoy!?

24 grandMattie

Not a whinge - just a Brian Bilston poem that caught my eye.

27 MissAdventure

Seen on Gransnet: Is Larry now Felis Catus non grata?

3 nanna8

Competitors

5 Pittcity

What was your babies first words

37 grandMattie

Uptick

11 JamesandJon33

A pedant on Facebook - moi?

153 choughdancer

Star prize

21 Calendargirl

How does a 'lived experience' differ from an 'experience'?

67 Grammaretto

Well, I’ve heard of the Mile High Club, but…

8 Grantanow

Communication skills?

42 RosiesMaw2

"Trained Gherkins"

18 grandtanteJE65

Looking for a longmore?

86 kircubbin2000

BBC Howler!

30 Joseann

And where is that exactly?

14 Oreo

What (if anything) have recent Literacy initiatives taught our children?

125 Witzend

Pronunciation

66 Bumface

It just needs a comma or two…

15 Ali08

Mental health?

23 welbeck

if you need a bump

40 Elegran

what is a pedant

25 M0nica

a bumping thread

15 grandtanteJE65