This thread has just about touched every grammatical nerve in my body. It's been so amusing - but may I add: "dissection" pronounced as "dyesection". As my teacher taught: you Dissect a body and, in geometry, bisect an angle." Even doctors get it wrong! Don't get me started on missing syllables: Battry for battery. Secertry for secretary. Cumftable for comfortable. And my pet hate is, as mentioned upthread, the inability to distinguish between the subject and the object of a verb. "Give it to my friend and me" not "my friend and I." One of the worst offenders is John Torrode on Masterchef: "I want you to cook for Greg and I". Now that's one that gets me hurling stuff at the TV.
' pushes your buttons' is annoying me - and I said it😒
I didn’t like to say that seeing as you started the thread😀 Another phrase that gets me is ‘I don’t get off on that’ or ‘I do get off on that’ Is it some sort of sexual attraction.
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Don't get me started on missing syllables: Battry for battery. Secertry for secretary. Cumftable for comfortable.
And my pet hate is, as mentioned upthread, the inability to distinguish between the subject and the object of a verb. "Give it to my friend and me" not "my friend and I."
One of the worst offenders is John Torrode on Masterchef: "I want you to cook for Greg and I". Now that's one that gets me hurling stuff at the TV.
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Have we all been thinking INSIDE the envelope up to this point?
Another phrase that gets me is ‘I don’t get off on that’ or ‘I do get off on that’ Is it some sort of sexual attraction.
Another irritating one