Yesterday there was a bloke on the telly talking about the Somali taxi driver who had acted as a go-between in the negotiations to free Paul & Rachel Chandler. He used the word "dialoguing", for which he must be punished. Severely.
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 November, 2010, 01:29:41 pmYesterday there was a bloke on the telly talking about the Somali taxi driver who had acted as a go-between in the negotiations to free Paul & Rachel Chandler. He used the word "dialoguing", for which he must be punished. Severely.Verbing weirds language, as ennysheddi know...
You're/your...
When I was wee (in the middle of the last century) if we wished to assert a state of being, we wouldn't say, "I am". We'd say, "I'm are!". The contrary was, "I'm are not!"
Infer/imply is another one.
To too loose lose infer imply their there.
Help! I'm proofing an article about a couple - Mr & Mrs Wiggins - and the copy says "the Wiggins's then moved to Johannesburg". Should it be "Wigginses" or "Wiggins" or what?
Can't, and this problem pops up several times in the article.