Should of, could of but in the end just couldn't

pimento

triticale wrote: »

I now imagine you all with plummy Home Counties accents...:rotfl:

I'm almost sorry to disappoint you but I sound just like Big Mo Slater from EastEnders, only not so erudite.

pinkduvetdiva

I just saw a thread on another forum from someone talking about his 21'st birthday! :eek: But the birthday is the 19th April, not the 19'th, so go figure....:doh:

kalaika

I received an email yesterday from a multinational company proclaiming that their new products will be "distributed to retailer's (sic) in June"

*Sigh*

MacMickster

Eenymeeny wrote: »

Nah! We're just having a real good moan, does you the world of good!:D

Why for because?

Birdy12

See sig. below .

anamenottaken

Re my dislike of incorrectly used "decimate" ]

frivolous_fay wrote: »

To be fair... is that a commonly known definition?
I think I got to 30 before hearing about the Romans!

Even without knowing about Roman mutineers, surely a speaker would think it referred to ten of something (though whether it was a case of a tenth being killed or a tenth being left might elude them).

And, while I'm back here:

Why are things now "in light of something" rather than "in the light of something"?

wealdroam

pinkduvetdiva wrote: »

I just saw a thread on another forum from someone talking about his 21'st birthday! :eek: But the birthday is the 19th April, not the 19'th, so go figure....:doh:

Yep*, I've figured it.

We all know about apostrophe S, but nobody has heard about apostrophe T.


*probably not the best word to use in this thread.

Jacey53

I am enjoying this thread. I do not like the use of padding in sentences - such as "i, myself.......", "my personal view" and basically, fundamentally, literally when whatever is not any of these.
pacific for specific
kinda
eversa (for ever so)

I could go on and on..........

Jacey53

Oh, and "traumatised" and "disaster" for upset and an inconvenience.

The "essential" make-up for summer - neither essential nor necessary.

The tendency to make things "extreme" seems to highlight a fear of inadequacy.

focae

Jacey53 wrote: »

I do not like the use of padding in sentences - I could go on and on..........

Surely you meant "I could go on........."