11-04-2019, 11:49 AM
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Re: Phrases that drive you up the wall
Originally Posted by Baz46
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"Can I get" instead of "May I have"Starting a sentence with "So,"
Regular interjections of "you know" into a conversation
The use of "their" instead of "there" (often a spell check error)
Using "you're" when it should be "your" (usually a spell check error)
Poor spelling, use of punctuation, capitalisation, apostrophes, paragraph spacing, etc. After a working life in printing and advertising and a former editor there have always been standards to be retained at all costs. This does tend to make me something of a pedant, nothing wrong with that though, in my opinion!
11-04-2019, 02:50 PM
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Re: Phrases that drive you up the wall
Originally Posted by Floydy
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Eejit.
eejit
(ee·jit) Dialect, chiefly Scot. ~n.
1. idiot, simpleton, one not possessed of all their mental faculties; one who is unable to properly conduct their own affairs (as in “Yer aff yer heid, ye eejit. That’s no’ a real dug“) [see also bawheid, dunderheid]
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