Grammar that makes you cringe

[Nuncio]

erm...

The Dr Fruehwald quoted in that report is my boy's personal tutor.

[Ian H]

Definitely sic headline.

Emergancy serviced were called to Honiton yesterday evening after a car collided into a building on the Hight Street.
Read more at http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Car-crashes-building-Honiton-Hight-Street/story-23056923-detail/story.html#C4TqokXbHzHvzxuu.99

[clarion]

Can we have this in the Spelling that etc etc.?

[drossall]

I gather that the Pedants' Revolt is doing the rounds on Twitter:

[Tim Hall]

That'll be the Pedant's Revolt, as led by Which Tyler, I guess.

[red marley]

^--- There may have been fewer than expected, but there was more than one.

[Ian H]

Can we have this in the Spelling that etc etc.?

In both places perhaps. I put it here because of "collided into".

[Tim Hall]

^--- There may have been fewer than expected, but there was more than one.

Arse. The regimental revolver and a bottle of whisky if you please.

[Cudzoziemiec]

However Johnson – who aides say is “instinctively libertarian and not temporarily inclined to ban things” – hinted that he thought the plan was too interventionist.

Not exactly grammar - maybe we need a "copy editing that makes you cringe" thread!

[T42]

From another forum not too far from here:

touring book storie's..

Unread postby ####### » Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:07 am
What's good book's are out there about people's touring adventures ?
I'm looking at cycling home from syberia. . is there any other good reads.
thanks in advance.

If was instead of were merits the regimental revolver, this one gets the full Danny Deever.

[jsabine]

From another forum not too far from here:

touring book storie's..

Unread postby ####### » Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:07 am
What's good book's are out there about people's touring adventures ?
I'm looking at cycling home from syberia. . is there any other good reads.
thanks in advance.

If was instead of were merits the regimental revolver, this one gets the full Danny Deever.

Celebrate the positive - two of the apostrophe's are in appropriate place's.

[T42]

^^^so subtract one drummer and shorten the rope.

[Jaded]

[rogerzilla]

Elvis Costello: it's "one fewer white nigger", not "one less white nigger". 

Always amusing how that word is considered absolutely taboo* yet you hear the song on AOR radio about twice a day.  I suppose "white" makes all the difference.

*unless you're black yourself, and you spell it "nigga".

[Mr Larrington]

Funny how infrequently one hears Patti Smith's "Rock'n'Roll Nigger" on the wireless, too.  I can't remember the last time it was played by either Radio 4 or Classic FM.

[Auntie Helen]

On the Stena Ferry last month. I spot the Dutch influence.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Dutch influence?

[Tim Hall]

Dutch influence?

I thought Dutch allows/must have an apostrophe in a plural if the singular ends in a vowel.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Didn't know that, thanks!

[Mr Larrington]

If something can be "made all the more worse" then I'm entering a Trappist monastery forthwith.

[Ian H]

From a generally fascinating local history - well, fascinating if you live here :-
"One of only several... "

[Wowbagger]

From the dining hall, Blenheim School, Southend.

[hellymedic]

I saw 'Eat fresh' on a van yesterday. I think it was  from one of the big supermarkets.

[T42]

The adverb is an endangered species. I blame the Germans.

[Ian H]

I feel a bit mean posting this, given that it's from a generally well-written local history.

The Temperance Hotel: One of Honiton's only lodging establishments where alcohol was definitely not sold.

From the list of hotels, taverns and inns.