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

pinkduvetdiva

I went to a grammar school, not a grammer school! :mad:

wuckfit

Practice/Practise is another (and Licence/License)

But of/have and Brought/bought tend to wind me up a lot. When someone says "I brought this", the correct response is "I can see you've brought it. where did you bring it from?"
Others have mentioned the apostrophe, and the their, there, they're confusion, which also press my buttons. and to/too.

I'm off for a nice lie down in a darkened room

gunsandbanjos

wuckfit wrote: »

But of/have and Brought/bought tend to wind me up a lot. When someone says "I brought this", the correct response is "I can see you've brought it. where did you bring it from?"

I don't know why but that really made me laugh! The whole brought/bought thing really winds me up:o

madget_2

When I ranted to my husband about so many people these days writing "alot" instead of "a lot", he insisted they were correct! *bangs head against brick wall*

Ellie2758

Last Christmas on a slip road around the nearby town a stall was advertising "Xmas Reefs"

The how "of" instead of "have" thing drives me to distraction too.

supersmith

Ellie2758 wrote: »

Last Christmas on a slip road around the nearby town a stall was advertising "Xmas Reefs"

Grin, like that one. Presumably the "Xmas reefs" also came with Xmas sharks??!!

inmypocketnottheirs

Did anyone hear Feargal Sharkey on BBC this morning talking about the Digital Economy Bill?

On two occasions referred to 'hyper bowl'. Perhaps this is similar, albeit grander than 'super bowl'.

However, I fear he may mean hyperbole. I conject that we will never know for certain.

gunsandbanjos

inmypocketnottheirs wrote: »

Did anyone hear Feargal Sharkey on BBC this morning talking about the Digital Economy Bill?

On two occasions referred to 'hyper bowl'. Perhaps this is similar, albeit grander than 'super bowl'.

However, I fear he may mean hyperbole. I conject that we will never know for certain.

I heard one of the presenters on radio 2 pronounce it hyper bowl too. I thought maybe i had been pronouncing it wrong but you have set my mind at ease:D

vyle

inmypocketnottheirs wrote: »

Did anyone hear Feargal Sharkey on BBC this morning talking about the Digital Economy Bill?

On two occasions referred to 'hyper bowl'. Perhaps this is similar, albeit grander than 'super bowl'.

However, I fear he may mean hyperbole. I conject that we will never know for certain.

When I was young I used to pronounce hyperbole, "hyper bowl." I always wondered what it meant and why people liked to refer to gratuitous hype as a "hyper bowl."

I actually asked my brother what people put in the hyper bowl and what was so hyper about it (and indeed, why it was bad that the bowl was hyper).

He never did reply and I was left to my own devices to discover the truth.

lincroft1710

Towards the end of 2009 a shop I passed offered "Dairies for sale". A few days later the notice had been visibly corrected to "Diaries".

Pedal (on a bike) and peddle (to sell). Have seen the incorrect version in both books and newspapers.

Seams for seems, brand for band (as in council tax band).