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You are not the only one Sue who gets annoyed at pronunciation.I also think grammar is lacking these days.
If ,for instance,We would have said.."I was sat on a chair in the lounge" our teacher would correct the tense ....I was sitting....
It's funny that if we learn a foreign language we get the tense right.
Also It annoys me when t is not pronounced.
I could go on,but everything seems to be hit and miss these days.
I may be a grumpy old woman,but it's the way we were brought up.

Hope you soon feel better Sue xx <3 :-)

I think there is a bit of an excuse for the breaking news banners and sub- titles.

Aren't they trying to type it as they hear it?

What has happened to the word 'who' as well?

I am referring to the people who say "that say" when talking about what people have said!

I agree, Brenda. Lie and Lay is another example - "I was laying on my bed".

My father used to correct us when we said "Can I do such-and-such?" by replying "You can, but you mayn't." It used to infuriate us!

Also, what happened to "might" as a past tense of "may"?

Don't watch Pointless then Andysmum, Alexander Armstrong make the can error every day.

I always cringe when someone says 'me and x went' or similar. It was drummed into us that others came first, let alone getting the pronoun wrong.

On pronunciation I hate the phrases 'later Ron' and 'Ee Stanglia' that crop up often.

and what about "could of" instead of "could have" - grrrrrrr!!! Jeremy Kyle says it all the time - basically :-D :-D :-D :-D

Absolutely Ann! (Sorry!)

grrrrrrrrrrrrr :-D

Just to widen the discussion a little - my regular gripe concerns some radio interviews or, more precisely, interviewees.

For example, there was a chap being interviewed the other day on our local station. He had invented some smart gadget - its purpose has now eluded me already.

Anyway, this fortunate young fellow had the airways at his disposal for about 15 minutes to publicise his invention. Speech clearly was not his keenest attribute & I suspect he didn't prepare properly for the event.

It took the programme interviewer all the power of his verbal dexterity to gradually draw him out to explain the workings of the invention - it was as woeful as pulling out a wisdom tooth without a pain-killer.

A golden opportunity gone to pot!

Ahoghill in N. Ireland. There was hysterical laughter when I pronounced it as it looks in order to ask where it was!

Pronounced Aah hoc ill. Say it quickly and that's it.

Thanks Brenda x

I gave a live radio interview some years ago (without prior prep) and it was scary. Not only being careful as to the content but also how I phrased the explanation of the content. It isn't easy but then I am not in any way a professional broadcaster.

The phrase 'me and ??????' makes me cringe. It doesn't matter whether '????? and I' is considered old fashioned I will continue to use it.

I can certainly appear careless (or dim) when I write as my brain works in mysterious ways (which even I don't understand). I think I have typed one word and a completely different one is on the page :-(

It's the American style pronunciation which is becoming acceptable too which grates on my nerves.

Grumpy in Wales

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I or me is pretty easy when you know how but people don't seem to know how any more.

The way it was explained to me was to try the sentence without the other person in it.

Sometimes I watch somebody who wants to look clever using the wrong word and, purely for pleasure, try their sentence without them in it.

I or me is pretty easy when you know how but people don't seem to know how any more.

The way it was explained to me was to try the sentence without the other person in it.

Sometimes I watch somebody who wants to look clever using the wrong word and, purely for pleasure, try their sentence without them in it.

That's how I was taught Sharron - to say the sentence without the other person and then you know whether or not you are using the correct term of 'I' or 'me'....simples.

I'm amazed at the number of people who don't seem to know how to use the words borrow and lend.

I tried explaining to someone about trying the sentence without the other person and was informed that you should say "He gave it to me" and "He gave it to John and I". I gritted my teeth and gave up.

As for "Me and so-and-so" I haven't heard that for years. Not since everyone started using I all the time.

As for "More bigger", don't get me started.

'He eluded his captors after alluding to their blemished characters'.

Wish I woz perfick like u lot.

H'ackchoolie.........nah

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here's one to test your spelling and grammar


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Outside a cemetery sat a harassed cobbler and an embarrassed oculist, picnicking on a desiccated apple,

Outside a cemetary sat a harassed cobbler and an embarassed oculist, picknicking on a desiccated apple and gazing at the symmetry of a lady's ankle with unparalleled ecstasy!!!

have I done it correctly? think so

My spelling is woeful - so please excuse any spelling mistakes I may make.

May and can -- drummed into me by the nuns at junior school.
If a child put their hand up and asked "Please sister ---, can I go to the toilet?"

The answer would be "I don't know - can you?" We always had to ask "May I" as we were asking permission, not questioning physical ability.

Another thing that annoyed the nuns was "all of a sudden!" we would get told that there was no such thing - the correct thing to say was "suddenly" This phrase is used often on t.v., always makes me want to set the nuns on the perpetrator.

What really gets my goat now - people especially newsreaders and presenters saying "gunner" or "gonner" when they mean "I am going to - ---"

Has gunner or gonner made its way into the O.E.D. and therefore become an accepted word - or are all these people just lazy.

I'm not so bothered about place names - sometimes wonder if the BBC have been pronouncing place names incorrectly for years and have just decided to correct their error.