Grammar that makes you cringe

[Moloko]

Campagnolo: 75 Years of Cycling Passion.

It's "breathe in" not "breath in".   

[Greenbank]

Hurrah:
losers spell it 'looser'
   

[Mr Larrington]

WI Lady on R4 yesterday: "We have a specific criteria by which we judge marmalade"

Get in the cannon, woman.

[Moloko]

Hurrah:
losers spell it 'looser'
    

That needs to go on the side of every bus shelter in the country and all the London underground.   

[Wendy]

What if you get lose/loose wrong despite knowing what the difference is?  It's not easy for everyone.   

[Jaded]

What if you get lose/loose wrong despite knowing what the difference is?  It's not easy for everyone.   

There is no hope for you.

[Cudzoziemiec]

WI Lady on R4 yesterday: "We have a specific criteria by which we judge marmalade"

Get in the cannon, woman.

Obviously, you judge marmalade by a criterium. Nothing to do with that criterion racing, that's for critters.

[hellymedic]

What if you get lose/loose wrong despite knowing what the difference is?  It's not easy for everyone.   

You'd be caught with your pants down when you lose the trousers with a loose waisband.

[Cudzoziemiec]

And you become a loo's cannon.

[drossall]

... despite knowing what the difference is ...

There are a number of word pairs, such as stationary/stationery, that gave me no problems until my English teacher told us not to confuse them. This was, I suppose, a case of not having noticed what the similarity is

[drossall]

True, but until she mentioned it I didn't need such tricks

[peliroja]

A new piece of business boll*cks I've not come across before:

"Let's float [the issue to] to Geoff for his sign-off..."

Float? Float?

 

[citoyen]

Probably on one of those rafts they keep going on about.

d.

[CAMRAMan]

We're having a team "download" next week. I'm not sure what she means, but we seem to be having a meeting at the same time, so I'll ask. Should I also tell her that, despite my crap Nintendo Wii Baseball skills, I still do not "touch base"...? No matter how often I hear that one, I still feckin' well hate it.

[clarion]

Touching base could be regarded as sexual harrassment.

[Moloko]

I was watching the cycling last night and the commentator clearly said "he's loosing speed"


Arghhhh, it now even exists verbally as well as written.

[clarion]

Perhaps 'loosing' was correct if the rider was unleashing his majesty

[clarion]

Not grammar, but, if you can't even spell 'trolley', I'm not going to buy one off you. 

From the same catalogue, however, WTF is 'Lifestyle seating'?

[Cudzoziemiec]

It's where you set your lifestyle down nice and comfy.

[Moloko]

Perhaps 'loosing' was correct if the rider was unleashing his majesty

Maybe his QR lever was undone.

[citoyen]

From the same catalogue, however, WTF is 'Lifestyle seating'?

It's probably something you use to create a "lifestyle ambience", a preposterous phrase I heard used on some ridiculous home makeover programme a few years ago.

My son, who must have been about 6 or 7 at the time, misheard it as "lifecycle ambulance", which to be fair, makes just as much sense.

d.

[TimO]

My mother used to take the mick with paperwork that my sister brought home from school.  I think she'd got to the point where she resented putting down housewife under occupation, so one of the phrases she used was "Lifestyle Coordinator". 

[citoyen]

My friend's mum favoured the term "Domestic engineer".

d.

[Cudzoziemiec]

"Lifecycle ambulance"

The same one that takes you to the maternity ward in womb takes you to the mortuary.

[windrush]

Bit o/t but why do the people who bang on about needing 'me time' employ cleaners and always have way more time on their hands than I do ?

Actually next time I hear it I will point out in a pedantic way that time does not actually belong to them, it a universal variable over which they have no control.   At least they'll probably stop talking to me then