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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms 12:14 - Jul 19 with 2951 viewsHugoagogo_Reborn

Grammar:
'could/should/would of' instead of 'could/should/would have'
'His' instead of 'he is' or 'he's'

Eggcorns/malapropisms:
'Pacific' instead of 'specific'
'Heart rendering' instead of 'heart rending'

Your turn. 😊
[Post edited 19 Jul 12:18]
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 12:31 - Jul 19 with 1646 viewsFBI

There/where etc...

One for the musicians ;-) : Squire... it's literally written on the bloody headstock!

Please send it to MYSELF... MYSELF and my mate went into the pub... YOURSELF is an illiterate tw@t

And this post from earlier, asterisks for emphasis, which makes my eyes hurt:

"If we hadn’t *of* gone down last season what players would we *of* got rid of/kept
What sort of signings could we *have* achieved with another premier league season ahead of us?

Just pure fantasy of course, still think Delap would *of* gone albeit for a higher amount."

And no, I haven't had enough coffee OR sleep.
[Post edited 19 Jul 12:32]

Poll: The career progress of former town players is...

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 12:32 - Jul 19 with 1633 viewsEdwardStone

I love a malaprop

Or even a mis pronounciation

My Gran, bless her Soul, used to shop in Bugdens

And a very dim former workmate used to go into Dillions for his daily newspaper
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 12:34 - Jul 19 with 1626 views_clive_baker_

Winds me up how young people seem to omit the word ‘to’ quite regularly.

I’m going Starbucks. No you’re not, dickhead. You’re going to Starbucks.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 12:57 - Jul 19 with 1556 viewsUSA

People writing loose when they mean lose.

The word ‘literally’ being misused.

Poll: Does Ipswich need a Northern by-pass ?

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 12:58 - Jul 19 with 1556 viewsTrequartista

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 12:34 - Jul 19 by _clive_baker_

Winds me up how young people seem to omit the word ‘to’ quite regularly.

I’m going Starbucks. No you’re not, dickhead. You’re going to Starbucks.


And when they get there they ask if they can get a coffee. No, you can't just climb over the counter and help yourself.

Any old excuse to show this again though ....

Poll: Who do you blame for our failure to progress?

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 13:36 - Jul 19 with 1434 viewsvilanovablue

Done used instead of did drives me nuts and seems to be used increasingly.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 13:39 - Jul 19 with 1420 viewsurbanpenguin

"Courtesy of" instead of just "courtesy".

ie, "Photographs courtesy ITFC"
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 13:40 - Jul 19 with 1412 viewsurbanpenguin

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 12:34 - Jul 19 by _clive_baker_

Winds me up how young people seem to omit the word ‘to’ quite regularly.

I’m going Starbucks. No you’re not, dickhead. You’re going to Starbucks.


Maybe an American adoption. ie, "write me when you arrive"
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 13:44 - Jul 19 with 1372 viewsDJR

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 13:36 - Jul 19 by vilanovablue

Done used instead of did drives me nuts and seems to be used increasingly.


I remember about 35 years ago (probably during World Cup 1990) seeing a letter to a newspaper in which someone had written something along following lines.

"To conjugate "done good"

I done good.
You done good.
He done good.
She done good.
The boy Lineker done good."
[Post edited 19 Jul 13:59]
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 13:46 - Jul 19 with 1347 viewsDJR

"Outside of" rather than "outside".

I think the former is an Americanism.
[Post edited 19 Jul 16:41]
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 13:56 - Jul 19 with 1308 viewsBent_double

revert back

Really annoys me, that one. Use one, or the other, but not both together

Poll: So what do we think will happen with MM and the Aston Villa job?

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 14:00 - Jul 19 with 1292 viewsthorpedo

More and more people say 'generally' when they mean 'genuinely' - eg - "I think Ipswich will win the league, and I generally mean it".

Thorpedo

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 14:01 - Jul 19 with 1288 viewsKeno

The use of them instead of these or those

They really annoy me them people that do that

Poll: Best Superman - in view of the new film who’s the best
Blog: [Blog] My World Cup Reflections

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 14:12 - Jul 19 with 1262 viewsPhilTWTD

'Over' rather than 'more than' when talking about a figure.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 14:15 - Jul 19 with 1225 viewsfootball

Using numbers rather than writing the number out for numbers ten or less. I am forever correcting this in reports and really frustrates me
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 14:19 - Jul 19 with 1186 viewsjontysnut

At risk of sounding like William Rees-Mogg I deplore the modern usage of ' beg the question '.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 14:43 - Jul 19 with 1107 viewsvinceg

So I was like….

Go on then, what were you similar to?
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 14:46 - Jul 19 with 1102 viewsvinceg

It was different to the previous one….

No, it was different FROM the previous one.

Different from, similar to..
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 14:46 - Jul 19 with 1102 viewssolemio

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 12:58 - Jul 19 by Trequartista

And when they get there they ask if they can get a coffee. No, you can't just climb over the counter and help yourself.

Any old excuse to show this again though ....


We had a lovely Sikh gentleman managing one of the local Costas. If someone said 'Can I get a cappuccino' he would say 'We'll get it, Sir. You just drink it.'
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:02 - Jul 19 with 1030 viewsPortmanteauxcurling

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 13:56 - Jul 19 by Bent_double

revert back

Really annoys me, that one. Use one, or the other, but not both together


The same goes for new innovations.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:17 - Jul 19 with 982 viewsHatStand

Grammar we love you 🎵🎼

Poll: Piers Morgan / Marmite

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:19 - Jul 19 with 973 viewsFBI

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:17 - Jul 19 by HatStand

Grammar we love you 🎵🎼


Grammar we do...

Poll: The career progress of former town players is...

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:20 - Jul 19 with 962 viewsFullerFlavour

Morsey instead of Morsy!
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:22 - Jul 19 with 946 viewswischip

Aks instead of Ask.
What is so difficult about saying the word 'Ask' properly, it's 3 letters.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:22 - Jul 19 with 946 viewsbuoyant

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:02 - Jul 19 by Portmanteauxcurling

The same goes for new innovations.


Much more better

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