Quote: EllieJP @ April 26 2010, 1:44 PM BSTI hate Chip too.
I liked it better when you went AWOL!
The all-in-one Consolidated Grammar Thread Page 2
I was on some university sites yesterday and an upsetting amount were misusing the apostrophe like so: PhD's. 
Quote: zooo @ April 26 2010, 1:49 PM BSTI was on some university sites yesterday and an upsetting amount were misusing the apostrophe like so: PhD's.
Who makes the rules? Ultimately? Who decided that this is how we should use apostrophes and this is how we should use semi-colons?
Quote: chipolata @ April 26 2010, 1:51 PM BSTWho makes the rules? Ultimately? Who decided that this is how we should use apostrophes and this is how we should use semi-colons?
Quelch.
Quote: Marc P @ April 26 2010, 1:52 PM BSTQuelch.
I only asked!
Quote: chipolata @ April 26 2010, 1:51 PM BSTWho makes the rules? Ultimately? Who decided that this is how we should use apostrophes and this is how we should use semi-colons?
Aaron?
Quote: chipolata @ April 26 2010, 1:45 PM BST
I liked it better when you went AWOL!
What's with British people using the spelling 'mom' instead of 'mum' now? It's not like they pronounce it 'mom' as Americans do either. Or do they?
Not on my watch!
I think some Irish people say and spell it mom. I'm not sure.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ April 26 2010, 2:14 PM BSTWhat's with British people using the spelling 'mom' instead of 'mum' now? It's not like they pronounce it 'mom' as Americans do either. Or do they?
I use both "mom" and "mum". Although interestingly, not to my mom/mum.
Quote: zooo @ April 26 2010, 2:16 PM BSTI think some Irish people say and spell it mom. I'm not sure.
Ma and Da for the Irish
Some things I notice most are:
People using "of" instead of "have" as in "you should of asked if you wanted to borrow it"
Saying "alot" or "abit" instead of "a lot" or "a bit"
People using "less" instead of "fewer"
People not using "whom" correctly
People who use "et" instead of "ate"
People who refer to themselves as "one" as in "one is very tired, so I'm going to bed"
Still, I can't really comment, I know grammar but my spelling is pretty bad. Although I did hear a story once that the girls at a local school were once made to have extra lessons because so many of them wrote "Girls Grammer School" on their GCSE exam papers.
I'm sure I've heard Graham Norton say 'mom' quite often.