justheretoread99
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Oooh guilty. I’m from Yorkshire and we don’t pronounce our ‘H’s so automatically say and write ‘an’ before any H words
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scot_nursey003
Active member
Grocer’s apostrophe is the use of an apostrophe in plural words e.g. apple’s, orange’s etc.
AliceInWanderLost
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i may or may not have, on occasion, made corrections to unnecessary apostrophes on signs...I once went up to a blackboard menu in a pub and wiped out all of the dodgy apostrophes.
and although i have angrily scribbled corrections on takeaway menus that have been shoved thru my door, i have resisted the urge to post them back thru the door of the takeaways! talking of unnecessary apostrophes, the ones that really grate are the signs which say "CD's and DVD's". ARGH.
Fledgling Psycho
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Do you all believe in "the sanctuary of marriage"?
stupid question alert - when exactly would you use either of them? I understand generally, that the apostrophe means it belongs to someone or when you miss out a letter, such as won't.
and to put it online, NOONE has realised the mistake
there are SO many phrases where people do this, there is a true crime podcast I listen to by a couple of american women and they make mistakes like this ALL the time. Unless you are a nonnative speaker mistakes like this are ridiculousTHIS. the irrational anger is real! i genuinely don't understand how people don't realise that by messing up the phrase, they are saying the exact opposite of what they are trying to say! "i could care less!" - you very much COULD care less, meaning it is a situation/issue you DO care about.
TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo
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I don't think so but now you've asked I'm going to have to do some research because I'd quite like to know too. I know three is far more common these days as the official number. It might be quite interesting to find out when one became more popular than the other as well.
Happy Lady
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I hate to see "reoccurrence". There is no such word and "recurrence" should be used.
Pink blancmange
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When I get random adds on Snapchat from quick add and every single one of them says "show me u." I can't even explain how much that irritates me!! Why can't they say can you show me a picture? Can I see what you look like? Why does every single male say it?!?!?!
TapToBoreMeRigid
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Christmas at the Hobson's
Christmas at the Hobson is what?
Christmas at the Hobson is what?
god I despair!i'm genuinely so embarrassed! mistakes like that usually stand out at me and i notice them immediately - i definitely would have if it had been a comment written by someone else - but i was far more focused on capitalising the letters and didn't notice. of all the places to make a grammatical error!
i can't remember the context, but i have actually seen someone use "two" instead of "too"...!
yes! how on earth could you guess?Is it the crime junkie podcast by any chance?
i listened to it today and she made a mistake with a very basic verb as well I don't know why I put myself through it sometimes
Instagram Sham
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Genuinely, this is honestly brilliantly helpful! If only my KS2 teacher had explained it to me this wayAn apostrophe is when your connecting two words the apostrophe goes where the missing letter is e.g has not - hasn’t.
I’m not sure if this has been mentioned I haven’t read through the whole thread but I’ve seen this three times this morning ‘generally’ instead of ‘genuinely’ two different words with totally different meanings
What’s the possessive thing about? Also, say a name ends in an S, what happens then? James’s or James’ or neither? Why?
AliceInWanderLost
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urgh, it irritates me when people do that in reefernce to their family in Christmas cards! "happy Christmas from the Jefferson's x" or whatever. the jefferson is WHAT?!
princessmaire80
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‘Isn’t it’ like ‘innit’ It drives me mad! Even my old consultant used to say that (English wasn’t his first language but you would expect a highly qualified doctor not to speak in slang to their patients)