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Re: Uk's Most irritating things
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:43 pm
by thecocker
Yes I can relate to that one warren. It's almost the same as people who put apostrophes when they are indicating a plural word.
Re: Uk's Most irritating things
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:28 pm
by slamdaddy
thecocker wrote:
> Yes I can relate to that one warren. It's almost the same as
> people who put apostrophes when they are indicating a plural
> word.
Oh bugger! I just noticed I wrote "get's", and I know full well there shouldn't be a ' in there.
Re: Uk's Most irritating things
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:17 pm
by Sam Slater
[quote]It's almost the same as people who put apostrophes when they are indicating a plural word.[/quote]
I'm sometimes guilty of this, if I think a word just doesn't look right without an apostrophe. !blush!
However, if this is in your 'top ten' most irritating things, then your life must be a breeze!
!laugh!
Re: Uk's Most irritating things
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:43 pm
by thecocker
It's not that my life is a breeze, it's just that I find it so annoying that people don't know how to write their own language properly. It's such a common mistake that even occurs, on a regular basis, in shops and in magazines. If people whose first language is not English can understand the difference between belonging and plurals, why do some of us find it so difficult?
Re: Uk's Most irritating things
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:53 pm
by Snake Diamond
I was never very good at English Lit... in school.
I'm Dyslexic, everything looks weird or wrong to me, even when the Dictionary shows the correct spellings LOL!
Re: Uk's Most irritating things
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:55 pm
by Snake Diamond
Madness? Like this?
warren zevon rip wrote:
> Well's, in the future's, use an apostrophe's to show somebody's owns
> something's n's (Warren's overdraft's) or that's a letter is missing's
> (don't). Not because you think's a word looks better with one's!
> In that's direction lies madness's.
???
???
!laugh!!laugh!!laugh!!laugh!!laugh!!laugh!
Re: Uk's Most irritating things
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:56 pm
by Snake Diamond
School, upbringing, laziness...