Grammar that makes you cringe

[Cudzoziemiec]

They are accompaniments which complement the main dish. Or maybe which compliment it.

Then again, does it mean all the little bits and pieces you can put together to make something larger? You know, the accomponents?

<pedant>

I think you mean 'complement'…

I am warming to the term 'trimmings'.

Simple, unpretentious English is best!

<super annoying pedant>
Complement is in the first sentence, compliment in the second.

[hellymedic]

Yeah, you win!

[T42]

ISTR someone, possible not OTP, disparaging (or even deprecating) the use of the word decade.  Does anyone know why?

[Guy]

Dear fellow member of the Narrow Gauge Enthusiasts FB group, while I really liked your video of 90cm gauge electrics working heavy mineral trains, did you really have to describe your video as "very unique"?

[cygnet]

ISTR someone, possible not OTP, disparaging (or even deprecating) the use of the word decade.  Does anyone know why?

Was it along the lines that a decade is a ten year period, and not necessarily the period of years with nY as the last two digits, where n is a constant and Y is a variable?

[Cudzoziemiec]

We are "working hand and love" with our partners. 

[Tim Hall]

We are "working hand and love" with our partners. 

It's when they say "towards a happy ending" that you might want to get worried.

[T42]

ISTR someone, possible not OTP, disparaging (or even deprecating) the use of the word decade.  Does anyone know why?

Was it along the lines that a decade is a ten year period, and not necessarily the period of years with nY as the last two digits, where n is a constant and Y is a variable?

No idea. AFAIK it can even mean a group of 10 things, although you almost never see it used that way.

[Cudzoziemiec]

"Minimalistic" is oxymoronic.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The Graun writing what they don't mean:

Smoking has already been widely replaced by vaping among teenage New Zealanders, and is also attracting many young people who would never have taken up smoking – according to surveying of 19,000 high school students this year, nearly 20% were vaping daily or several times a day, the majority with high nicotine doses.

[Kim]

That's just word salad, as well as being wrong.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I wouldn't call it word salad, it's just the transferred subject that's annoying. All it needs is to replace the "and" after New Zealanders with "which". As for being factually wrong, casual observation and anecdote suggest it might well be correct for the UK, which probably isn't that different in this respect.

[Peter]

They are accompaniments which complement the main dish. Or maybe which compliment it.

Then again, does it mean all the little bits and pieces you can put together to make something larger? You know, the accomponents?

<pedant>

I think you mean 'complement'…

I am warming to the term 'trimmings'.

Simple, unpretentious English is best!

Trimmings - no, never, ever.... aaaagh!

[Wowbagger]

From that there Twitter.

[hellymedic]

Shouldn't that word be 'licenCe'?

[hatler]

Shouldn't that word be 'licenCe'?

That was my first thought too. She could be USAnian though, and they use 'license' for both the noun and the verb (weirdos).

[Peter]

The response that comes to mind starts "People who live in glass houses....".

[Cudzoziemiec]

Twitter says that account has not tweeted. https://twitter.com/yeswehomeschool

[Mrs Pingu]

Draw: to sketch with a pen or pencil
Drawer: those box shaped things for keeping stuff in that slide in and out of a chest

Yes, this one has been getting on my wick of late.

[Mr Larrington]

Also:
The back bit of one's foot vs. making the sick well again, and
Masculine vs. letters and postcards.

Grr.

[hellymedic]

kerb/curb
peddle/pedal

[FifeingEejit]

Using ran as the past participle of run.

No you didn't feckin ran it.

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[hellymedic]

Using ran as the past participle of run.

No you didn't feckin ran it.

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Imperfect imperfect...

[L CC]

Draw: to sketch with a pen or pencil
Drawer: those box shaped things for keeping stuff in that slide in and out of a chest

Yes, this one has been getting on my wick of late.

Me too, me too, me too.

(But I think it's spelling rather than grammar #pedant  )

[Tim Hall]

Draw: to sketch with a pen or pencil
Drawer: those box shaped things for keeping stuff in that slide in and out of a chest

Yes, this one has been getting on my wick of late.

Me too, me too, me too.

(But I think it's spelling rather than grammar #pedant  )

"Chester draws". A thing often seen in small ads.