The spelling/grammar nazi thread

[ihoss.com]

plural fish = fish && plural sheep = sheep.

[hanratty21]

My pet hate's:

fixe'd.

[hanratty21]

plural fish = fish

Not 100% true.

fish
noun (pl. fish or fishes). Fish is the usual plural form. The older form, fishes, can be used to refer to different kinds of fish.

From childhood memory of the Christian gospel, I think the English versions of the feeding of the 5000 always refers to "five loaves" and "two fishes".

[Genesis F5]

You're both wrong! "My pet peeves."

[kortex]

My contribution:



if yuo can raed tihs, you hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.
Can you raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.



If you can read this, your brain is 50% faster than those who can't

[Genesis F5]

Alright! My 486 has a "Turbo" button!

[ihoss.com]

Not only can __ letters __ jumbled about, a lot __ __ words can __ dropped too. Obviously unimportant words can __ dropped, __ long __ they are indicated, but __ complicated __ can also be __. This would __ a good Captcha test

[ihoss.com]

does/dose
example:
Only in Japan does the comic go away.
This dose of medicine is too little.

[gerbick]

I've never seen anybody mix up does/dose before in my life. Am I missing something?

[ihoss.com]

You just merged the evidence

[gerbick]

You just merged the evidence

Holy damn. I didn't even see that.

[Jujumon]

sentense/sentence?

which is which?

not going nowhere/not going anywhere?

[Genesis F5]

"Not going nowhere" is a double negative. The correct form is the second one you posted or, "going nowhere." As far as I know, "sentense" is not an English word. "Sentence" is the correct spelling.

[Jujumon]

like a 'sentence' in paragraph is the same as 'sentencing' to jail?

[david petley]

yep, stupid english language, can't even be bothered to make a new word.

1. Sentence - Statement, question, exclamation or command, containing or implying a subject and predicate*.

2. Sentence - A decision of a law court, especially the punishment allotted to a criminal.

*Predicate - Assert something about the subject of a proposition...Found or base a statement on.

dp

[random25]

I have a bad habit of combining "with" and "the" into "withe".
I think "withe" should be made an official word.

[ihoss.com]

I found "most everyone" in this article. I think I've read it somewhere else before, so it seems like a legal expression. But isn't it an oxymoron? A group can't be everyone and most at the same time, unless the group is everyone. In which case it isn't most, since there isn't a small part left?

Wouldn't most people be better? Or maybe mostone (like anyone, everyone, noone).

[edit] and mostbody, while I'm at it. I'll start using that from now on.

[Incrue]

'thee' , 'wakefull' <-- what does that means? Babelfish didnt help me on that
Nevermind, found it already, thee is kind of old fashioned objective form of thou