Lern to spell!

[Andrew563]

Spelling is one of my pet peeves, I am always correcting misspelled stuff. Or how about this, people who mispronounce words. I know a server who pronounces syrup as surp. It absolutely drives me nuts when she does it. Then of course , there is the people who some how work an r into wash, usually as "warsh".

[skilletlicker]

Originally Posted by Andrew563

Spelling is one of my pet peeves, I am always correcting misspelled stuff. Or how about this, people who mispronounce words. I know a server who pronounces syrup as surp. It absolutely drives me nuts when she does it. Then of course , there is the people who some how work an r into wash, usually as "warsh".

Yall're gooder spelers an anuncitaters in warshington

[chrose]

My brother in law in NJ pronounces water "wooter"

[Pete]

I really hate when someone pronounces the "l" in salmon!!! It drives me nuts!!!!

[deltadoc]

Originally Posted by Andrew563

Then of course , there is the people who ....

And one of my pet peeves is people who are not grammatically correct in their verb usage. "There is" should be "There are".

doc

[chrose]

Originally Posted by deltadoc

And one of my pet peeves is people who are not grammatically correct in their verb usage. "There is" should be "There are".

doc

And who do that be?

[katbalou]

and i pahk my cah in hahvahd yahd. oh and there's always an extra "a" to add to words, such as my pet peeve - kathleen turns into kathaleen. yup, i come from a county in central mass. that is written worcester, but pronounced "woosta"
talk about being mis-understood when you travel outside of new england!
kat

[Andrew563]

Originally Posted by deltadoc

And one of my pet peeves is people who are not grammatically correct in their verb usage. "There is" should be "There are".

doc

..okay, you got me there

[Greg]

"Should of" instead of "should have" drives me nuts. That or any of the other myriad "hooked on phonics" ways of spelling things. Also, any internet spelling, if you want to call it that. "r u", "kthanx" and all that.

We put out a flyer to our members the other day with a mistake on it. I'm thinking about asking the GM to have any of that sort of thing run by me before we print it. Cause I is reely good at grammer and speling and werds. R U?

[MarkV]

How about when people say "axe" instead of "ask"?

Mark

[kuan]

Folks, in America, punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks.

[shroomgirl]

Every week during the market season approx 24 weeks ave. I e-mail news about which farmers are coming to market as well as what's going on in STL food community. I've had people volunteer to spell check/edit my work.

Last year I wrote several articles for contract.....I had the info, but needed a really good editor to put it together sos peoples could unnerstand what I says. Seems the trend now is to hire "foodies" instead of journalists then edited the work HEAVILY>
aw well, seems like I source 4 articles each week for various publications.....

[Pete]

Kuan, hate to tell you, but you are wrong about the puncuation always going inside quotation marks. This comes from "The Style Guide"

Use of punctuation within quotation marks:
i. Commas and periods always are placed inside quotes.
ii. The dash, the semicolon, the question mark, and the exclamation point go within quotation markes when they apply to the quoted matter only. They go outside when they apply to the whole sentence.
iii. Place inside quotation marks if belong to quoted material:
Example: She asked,"have you read the article?"
Place punctuation outside quotations if entire sentence is not part of the quoted material.

[kuan]

OK Pete, except when introducing the quoted material. All punctuation which denotes the end of quoted material is placed inside the endquote.

[Andrew563]

I think I need to take a class in correct grammar usage, or pay attention to that feature in my word processor.