grammer! #### common errors and pet hates.
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And the whose/who's confusion grates too!
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I think "to give an exam " or to " appear for exam " along with a "seat in a school " are cultural as these phrases are commonly used in Indian sub continent. In UK to give an exam means something different as in a doctor gives an exam to a patient .
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I always want to spell canteen the French way. I always have to check my spelling of inoculate and harass (checked both just now).
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Found this ... have fun!
Found this ... have fun!
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I am also guilty of this. Sorry if I've caused anyone anguish with my postsmad? wrote: Constant abuse of ellipses.
My 'favourites' are:
Compliment/Complement
Specific/Pacific
amongst many others.
The one that really trips me up is practice/practise. I've never managed to work it out.
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Practice is a noun (I remember the c standing for a noun is what something is Called), practise is a verb.
I'm not one to criticise, as I make mistakes all over. Being dyslexic I don't notice straight away. Honestly I do proof read before I hit send, and I still don't see all the mistakes.
My bugbear is autocorrect, or as I've started to call it, autouncorrect. For goodness sake, it's supposed to be on my side!
I work with a number of foreign engineers. Weirdly they ask me advice (there's another word like practise/practice) on English. I suppose in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King.
I'm not one to criticise, as I make mistakes all over. Being dyslexic I don't notice straight away. Honestly I do proof read before I hit send, and I still don't see all the mistakes.
My bugbear is autocorrect, or as I've started to call it, autouncorrect. For goodness sake, it's supposed to be on my side!
I work with a number of foreign engineers. Weirdly they ask me advice (there's another word like practise/practice) on English. I suppose in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King.
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Absolutely! Let's try to remember this is the UK, folks!Justinterested wrote:I think "to give an exam " or to " appear for exam " along with a "seat in a school " are cultural as these phrases are commonly used in Indian sub continent. In UK to give an exam means something different as in a doctor gives an exam to a patient .
On which subject American spellings do annoy me but are frequently caused by autocorrect functionality.
My personal hates are definitely:
less/fewer
practice/practise (just say advice/advise to yourself out loud and apply the same principle and you will get it right)
And, on that topic,
principle (truth or belief)/principal (chief)
I'm afraid I too am guilty of overuse of ellipses...
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One recent project I worked on, we had to use American spelling in all documents. Not good for me at all.
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Oh good, that's what I thought. Thanks! I think I get mixed up because US English uses 'practice' for both so I read it in books etc and start to confuse myselfTinkers wrote:Practice is a noun (I remember the c standing for a noun is what something is Called), practise is a verb.
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Hyacinth I struggled with practice/ practise for years until it was pointed out to me that they are used in the same way as advice/advise would be.