Does it bother you?
Mar 31st 2009, 4:34 pm
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Mar 31st 2009, 6:50 pm
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Must admit the their and there one does irritate me. My daughter has come home from school with 10/10 on some of her English work and when I've checked it have found mistakes. If the teachers aren't spotting it, what hope have the kids got.
Mar 31st 2009, 7:25 pm
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Mar 31st 2009, 7:26 pm
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My son got a merit award at school for outstanding spelling, and the teacher had spelt his name wrong on the certificate!
Bad spelling and grammar do really annoy me.
Bad spelling and grammar do really annoy me.
Mar 31st 2009, 7:30 pm
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Mar 31st 2009, 8:31 pm
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I think your average Joe Blow in both the UK and Aus are equally as backward with their grammar. However it seems that there are more average Joe Blows running businesses and creating their own marketing/signs over here in Aus. It is much more noticeable I think in Aus.
Couple that with eccentric work legislation and govt style practises in precisely these jobs and its no wonder that clerical routine white collar worker migrants seem to cop it so much.
Mar 31st 2009, 8:52 pm
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Mar 31st 2009, 9:07 pm
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OMG- spelt has been bothering me for years but I've begun to think spelled is incorrect as I never see it used! I too think of wheat with spelt and I shy away from writing either spelt or spelled as I never see spelled but spelt feels so yuck.
Mar 31st 2009, 9:37 pm
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Yes, it bothers me. But it's a world-wide phenomenon, not an exclusively Australian one. My pet hate was the greengrocer's apostrophe ...
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Mar 31st 2009, 9:58 pm
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Apr 1st 2009, 10:20 am
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Apr 1st 2009, 10:24 am
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