Would of, Should of, Could of

[Kester]

.... and some letters aren't!!

e.g. .... "herb" being pronounced "erb" .... and yes, it's you bloody Americans again!!!

LEARN TO SAY YOUR AITCHES WHEN YOU'RE MEANT TO!!!

And please note: 'H' is pronounced 'aitch', not 'haitch'!!

I pronounce 'H' as 'haitch' all the time....

Maybe that's why people always tell me they can't understand me when I talk.....

 

[Críostóir]

The changes that bother us are the ones happening during our lifetimes. I hate ongoing. It's only about 35 years old (created, I think, by Richard Nixon's spin meisters), yet anyone born after ongoing came along might think it's older than god. Ongoing? What was wrong with continuing? Or going on?

Bugger. The Ongoing ship onwent.

Have you heard 'ongoingly' yet? Meaning "on an ongoing basis"? It's a horror, but I've even found myself using it! When I notice I rephrase, but my gods, it's fucking insidious.

I'm still fighting against 'supercede', but I think we're going to lose that one too.

 

[ozguy]

Awesome thread!

Love the way we all get our knickers in knots over things like this!

Keep it going, boys!

(Maybe we should start on the correct spelling of words next! )

 

[Yooper]

"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain."

"In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen"

This is a Gay forum, boys.

 

[rareboy]

This thread looks like a meeting of the Grammar-Nazi Party. We can all clutch our pearls and wag our finger at everyone else.

I’d like to mention one of my bête noires…and that’s that the certain four-letter word which is used as an adjective, noun and verb whenever one's too lazy to use the correct one. Here are a few local examples~


‘I get happy when looking through your fæces’

‘I love doing that kinda random excrement when crossing the state borders'

‘Misogynist gays love hanging their fæces on lesbians’

'I love this fæces! Food would be so boring without Sriracha Sauce.'

‘That song, your blonde fuzzy ass and a bottle of red wine…now THATS the excrement!’

‘NASA has got no business up there. This fæces needs to be defunded and shut down'

Of course, we might have expected that your fear/disgust with shit might be given free reign in the thread. The thing is, shit is a perfectly good word, acknowledged by Oxford as possessing a glorious multivalence in the English language.

noun
[mass noun]
1 faeces.
[in singular] an act of defecating.
(the shits) diarrhoea.
2 [count noun] a contemptible or worthless person.
3 something worthless; rubbish; nonsense.
unpleasant experiences or treatment.
4 personal belongings; stuff.
an intoxicating drug, especially cannabis.
verb (shits, shitting; past and past participle shitted or shit or shat /ʃat/)
1 [no object] expel faeces from the body.
[with object] (shit oneself) soil one’s clothes as a result of expelling faeces accidentally.
[with object] (shit oneself) be very frightened.
2 [with object] tease or try to deceive (someone).
exclamation
an exclamation of disgust, anger, or annoyance.

Phrases

beat (or kick) the shit out of
beat (someone) very severely.

be shitting bricks
be extremely nervous or frightened.

do bears shit in the woods?
used to indicate that something is blatantly obvious.

get one's shit together
organize oneself so as to be able to deal with or achieve something.

give someone the shits
chiefly Australian /NZ make someone annoyed or angry.

in the shit
in trouble.

no shit
used as a way of confirming or seeking confirmation of the truth of a statement.

not give a shit
not care at all.

not know shit
not know anything.

shit for brains
chiefly North American a stupid person.

be up shit creek (also be up shit creek without a paddle)
be in an awkward predicament.

when the shit hits the fan
when the disastrous consequences of something become public.

Origin:
Old English scitte ‘diarrhoea’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schijten, German scheissen (verb).

 

[frankfrank]

Reminds me anyway of this good poster in The Oatmeal:
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling

I really love some of the mnemonic devices this guy came up with! Really outside-the-box thinking (and so cumbersome they're TOTALLY useless, lol)

if you're gsdx, you spell spelled spelt.

Yes, there's a grain of truth to that, methinks...

When this Texan says, "I couldn't care less...." for me it's a polite way of saying I don't give a fuck.

But yeah, for someone to say "I could care less?"

That's just ignurt.

Rhymes with yogurt. I use the phrase the same way, and I hear "I could care less" a lot. Sometimes I'll actually use the phrase "I could care less" correctly, always followed by a "but..." - such as "I **COULD** (emphasized) care less, but it's really important to me."

'OMG I'm Gay.I C U R 1 2. lolz' is

Wrong gender, but...U R N D L F 8 R

Y'all is an acceptable contraction for You All.

I use it all the time, it's a word I like and I think it works well. Spanish has two forms of Second Person singular and plural - the formal and the "familiar." The "familiar" TU (singular) is sort of like y'all in singular; their VOSOTROS (plural, but rarely used in Spanish) is like y'all plural. I don't hear the singular counterepart to y'all in the south very often, it seems that I've only heard it commonly used in Texas though. Sometime I'll use y'all singular, and y'alls plural...

All I have to say is: you'd better be pronouncing the R after a vowel.

That last "R" might get you shot in San Bernardino, lol.

the unnecessary pronunciation of the h, before the w (or at all) in "while" as "hwile."

They'll have to pry that dipthong out of my cold, dead fingers...

Another one that sorta rattles me anytime I hear it used, is PLED - as in "the defendant pled guilty." It's PLEADED, folks!

 

[freefall]

Also, the unnecessary pronunciation of the h, before the w (or at all) in "while" as "hwile."

Isn't this a British pronunciation? I read this in dictionaries...

 

[ashonfire]

I don't normally partake in these threads but...

I've noticed this one a lot lately. Faze and phase are different words. "It doesn't phase me" does not make sense, the correct spelling is "it doesn't faze me". I'm not sure I really give a fuck, but thought folks might want to get it right in case they are misusing it in a professional or academic setting.

 

[gsdx]

Keep it going, boys!

If you aks nicely, we'll (NOT a contraction of 'we all') will continue conversating 4 u.

 

[rareboy]

I don't normally partake in these threads but...

I've noticed this one a lot lately. Faze and phase are different words. "It doesn't phase me" does not make sense, the correct spelling is "it doesn't faze me". I'm not sure I really give a fuck, but thought folks might want to get it right in case they are misusing it in a professional or academic setting.

Omg

I'd forgotten this one.....it seems to be appearing all the time now.

 

[gsdx]

It does if you're Capt. Kirk whose ray gun fails to fire during a suicide attempt.

It certainly phases the guys he makes dress in red shirts.

 

[gsdx]

"Acrost"

Need I say more?

 

[hermanding]

Oooooh. english grammar. no mi fuerza.