Sure, who do you want to lend it to? That one annoys me too!when people muddle up lend and borrow. like "can i get a lend of your pen?" instead of "could i borrow your pen?"
Sure, who do you want to lend it to? That one annoys me too!when people muddle up lend and borrow. like "can i get a lend of your pen?" instead of "could i borrow your pen?"
When, for example, you have bought something for yourself; you wouldn't say 'I bought me a...', you would say 'I bought myself a new...'.A genuine question - what IS the correct use of ‘myself’? I hate it being used to sound like a smartarse when ‘me’ or ‘I’ is grammatically appropriate but I can’t think of the correct context to use it?
I think that's an Americanism, isn't it?"He jumped off of the table". The "of" is redundant.
Kinda like "can I write TO you?", but in America, "can I write you?"I think that's an Americanism, isn't it?
A bit like"gotten" instead of "got". I know the former is fine to use in North America, but it annoys me when people use it in the UK.
It is redundant but it seems still universally accepted in American English."He jumped off of the table". The "of" is redundant.
I always just say "partner" as I always forget if I'm the é or the ée.People saying fiancé when they mean fiancée and vice versa
Similarly I've noticed people not using "of" after "a couple".Kinda like "can I write TO you?", but in America, "can I write you?"
Male person is a fiancé, woman is a fiancée, if that helps.I always just say "partner" as I always forget if I'm the é or the ée.
Just had a flyer through from a company offering me a free boiler. Wow, great! Except they've used "effected" instead of "affected", so into the bin it goes.
For a man it’s fiancé and a woman is a fiancée
Similarly I've noticed people not using "of" after "a couple".
E.g. "Can I have a couple days off?"
This reminds me of that annoying Mike Bushell talking to Charlie Stayt on BBC Breakfast and referring to someone having a fiancé which he pronounced as FY ANSE. Charlie Stayt couldn’t believe it. How can you be journalist and to have got to that age where you don’t know how to pronounce that? Can’t stand that show.Male person is a fiancé, woman is a fiancée, if that helps.