Author Topic: Grammar that makes you cringe  (Read 856863 times)

clarion

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2650 on: 02 April, 2013, 09:44:31 am »
In an email this morning:

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Wowbagger

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2651 on: 02 April, 2013, 07:50:13 pm »
Yesterday's Guardian: "However the freezing temperatures in January meant that some species of birds saw an increase in gardens..."

To be fair the online version has been corrected to, "However the freezing temperatures in January meant that some species of birds increased in gardens..."

At what point does a temperature freeze?
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2652 on: 04 April, 2013, 07:24:37 pm »
Ellipsis litter.
Stop it...

hellymedic

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2653 on: 04 April, 2013, 07:29:43 pm »
CTC email today "Make Cycling History".

Oh Dear!

mattc

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2654 on: 04 April, 2013, 08:00:35 pm »
CTC email today "Make Cycling History".

Oh Dear!
One thread not enough for you Helly?

This one isn't even bad grammar - someone's really got an anti-CTC bee in their bonnet today!
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2655 on: 04 April, 2013, 10:43:27 pm »
I managed to use your instead of you're in an email today  :facepalm:

Regulator

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2656 on: 04 April, 2013, 10:47:54 pm »
Pedal and pedalling.... not peddle and peddling.

You're supposed to be a cyclist.  :facepalm:
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2657 on: 07 April, 2013, 08:11:47 pm »
Shame really.
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Same Lorries,
More Luxury
would have been fine!


(although I still can't give a toss about less/fewer ...)
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2658 on: 08 April, 2013, 07:55:57 am »
If you're not sure, just try it  both ways, you'll be 50% correct:

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2659 on: 10 April, 2013, 09:47:29 am »
"Rate of speed"  :facepalm:
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2660 on: 10 April, 2013, 09:49:18 am »
"Rate of speed"  :facepalm:

That would be acceleration then.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2661 on: 10 April, 2013, 10:01:13 am »
Nope. Not referring to changes in speed, just speed.
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citoyen

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2662 on: 15 April, 2013, 10:57:29 am »
Grammar quiz that makes me cringe:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationquestions/9987757/Good-grammar-test-can-you-pass.html

I got 10/12...

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2663 on: 15 April, 2013, 05:48:07 pm »
Ugly. I got 9/12, getting the same ones wrong as you, plus number 9.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2664 on: 17 April, 2013, 03:40:25 pm »
This, on some advertising blurb from our caterers, in one of our common rooms today (SCR=Senior Common Room).



:facepalm:
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Andrij

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2665 on: 17 April, 2013, 05:12:18 pm »
Perfectly good English, as spoken by St. George himself!  :smug:
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2666 on: 17 April, 2013, 06:09:03 pm »
Perfectly good English, as spoken by St. George himself!  :smug:

Nah, wasn't he Turkish? He'd have spoken perfect English!
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2667 on: 17 April, 2013, 07:52:27 pm »
Perfectly good English, as spoken by St. George himself!  :smug:

Nah, wasn't he Turkish? He'd have spoken perfect English!

 ;D
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2668 on: 19 April, 2013, 11:34:02 am »
Not grammar really, but irritating nonetheless.

On the BBC Sport website...

"Pirelli switch tact".

No, that's tack.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2669 on: 19 April, 2013, 02:15:53 pm »
Perfectly good English, as spoken by St. George himself!  :smug:

Nah, wasn't he Turkish? He'd have spoken perfect English!
Greek. Before the Turks moved in.
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2670 on: 19 April, 2013, 02:34:42 pm »
But he died quite a long time before there were any English to speak English
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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2672 on: 24 April, 2013, 12:18:55 am »
Big Horn truck!  :D :D
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citoyen

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2673 on: 26 April, 2013, 12:04:33 pm »
One for the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks:

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Mr Larrington

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Re: Grammar that makes you cringe
« Reply #2674 on: 26 April, 2013, 02:32:33 pm »
Is that the one near the Tate Modern?
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