May 8
Here’s a photo, taken in my kitchen, of a bottle of juice drink from Aldi….
Notice anything?
The creeping menace of phantom apostrophes. They’re becoming deeper and deeper entrenched into our collective psyche. Soon this ignorant Philistine of a grammatical error will become part of the English language.
You mark my word’s!
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Other written & spoken favourites….
It must of been
Definately
This is rediculous
I asked him Pacifically
One foul swoop
He’s got no nonce
… got any more?
The Americans love “I could care less” which means the exact opposite of what they’re trying to say.
Another stupid Americanism is “irregardless” which seems to be a mashup of “regardless” and “irrespective”.
I’ve seen a lot of people confuse “non” with “none” too.
A friend of mine seems to use question marks at the end of almost every sentence, unless he’s actually asking a question!
I suppose “for all intensive purposes” it doesn’t matter as long as you can understand what they mean?