Grammarians UNITE!

[coffeelady3]

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Good one Master Yoda!

 

[JennsPeeps]

The other thing that has been on my last grammar nerve lately is the ubiquitious use of "you guys". Of course, the plural or possessive of "you guys" is "you guyses".

I earned my undergrad degree in French. I worked hard to learn proper grammar and pronunciation. It's hard to change ingrained habits, but it is possible.

A few years ago I realized that I couldn't stand the prounciation of coupon as "q-pon". The primary reason for it was that an irritating coworker pronounced it "q-pon". So I decided to change my pronunciation to "coo-pon". It took time and careful monitoring of my speech, but I was ultimately successful.

Now that I have chickens I'm cognizant of "lay" vs. "lie". I'll let the girls lay in the coop while I lie in bed.

 

[goobhen]

I agree with you.

 

[waynesgarden]

Lose and loose.

I've been told to let my chickens run lose and I've been called a looser by certain members of other forums. (I guess it's because of my talent for making things less tight, though I might more correctly be called a loosener.)

Oh, well, "win or loose," it's all part of the global conspiracy to undermine the foundations of spelling, vocabulary and grammer.

Wayne

 

[waynesgarden]

You had to get me started.

Not a grammer question as much as a rant against pretension:

Why did the American media suddenly drop the article from the phrase "in the hospital" in favor of the more British phrase "in hospital?" Example, long ago I was ill and "in the hospital" for a week. Nowadays, the more pretentious news scribblers would write that I was "in hospital" for a week.

Wayne

 

[JennsPeeps]

Wayne - I hadn't heard that one yet! Nicely caught & ranted! lol

 

[Opa]

Try watching the home improvement shows and not be driven to distraction by the experts mispronouncing the word "caulk".

 

[greyfields]

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The letterboard outside the high school here one week said:

"You booze, you loose."

It was laughable, if not the neighboring church was advertising "Super Bowel Sunday".

 

[MissPrissy]

Dumb TV chefs can't even pronounce Vidalia onion-

Vie - dale - ya

NOT vi - doll- ya

 

[debilorrah]

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The letterboard outside the high school here one week said:

"You booze, you loose."

It was laughable, if not the neighboring church was advertising "Super Bowel Sunday".

Oh dear