Rasta Ratskins
How come flammable and inflammable mean the same thing? My mate Trev always says 'nused' as in 'I nused to say "used" but now I say "nused" ' He also says accriate, as in "It's not accriate to say 'nused'". Funny thing is, his wife now says the same things! She didn't used to. Some people say "Alls you have to do." Alls! Come on!
The instructions are simple...
If Crashe is confused over a and e, then she best mind her p's and q's
Skerrick can be forgiven....tis Gaelic after all.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Hardcore Biker
*bats eyelids*
Oh, Mister Hitcher! You're my hero!
Me and my imaginary friend have been goin' round the bend for some time now....
The instructions are simple...
Now see here - case in point of the correct (non)usage of an apostrophe. She is saying that she is batting her eyelids. If an apostrophe was used thusly (bat's eyelids) then that would mean the eyelids belonging to the bat.Originally Posted by apteryx_haasti
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Hardcore Biker
You'll keep, my friend. You'll keep...
Me and my imaginary friend have been goin' round the bend for some time now....
Forum whore
Pedants of the World, unite!
This thread is fun. How long may it run?
You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
Shorai Powersports batteries are very trick!
Mad nagging bitch!
My step kids used (nused) to say that, too! Never heard aof anyone else though. The funny thing is , their father (Mstrs) was such a stickler for proper and correct pronunciation at all times, but he never noticed it...that, folks, is how I became the "wicked step mother"How come flammable and inflammable mean the same thing? My mate Trev always says 'nused' as in 'I nused to say "used" but now I say "nused" ' He also says accriate, as in "It's not accriate to say 'nused'". Funny thing is, his wife now says the same things! She didn't used to. Some people say "Alls you have to do." Alls! Come on!
Diarrhoea is hereditary - it runs in your jeans
If my nose was running money, I'd blow it all on you...
The instructions are simple...
Got a ways to go...This thread is fun. How long may it run?
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=23256
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Forum whore
From my vast menagerie of pet hates come the phrases "a.m. in the morning", or "p.m. in the afternoon", so often used by our over paid and under educated newsreaders.
There is no such a time that could ever be referred to by using either "p.m. in the morning", or "a.m. in the afternoon", is there?
Mainlander in Exile
Add to that ATM machine and baby ducklings!!
Soccer - A Gentlemans game played by Hooligans.Rugby - A Hooligans Game played by Gentlemen.
Mainlander in Exile
My other major annoyance is the pronounciation of the name of the place I grew up; it is Gisborne, not Gizbin.
ThanksEither way THERE IS NO "U" in the spelling there of (and I do mean of, not off)
Soccer - A Gentlemans game played by Hooligans.
Forum whore
"Personal identification number number"
Loud and Uncouth
"Awyagottado" is one that grates - hear it on a lot of TV ads, mainly aimed at 'young ones'.
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
For those who are confused....
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/
Beware the psychosis llama...
Never heard it SD - Unless you mean it as an example of elission in spoken 'New Zilland English'?) At times like this, I am most pleased to NOT own a television at home. That, and I avoided the painful advertising in the run up to Christmas. :Yes:
Oh, and cheers Marty for that link elucidating the use of the most often, and most cruelly abused punctuation mark.
My pet hate is signs in (or for) shops that abuse the said mark. Only a few days ago I was in the Christchurch Harvey Norman, and witnessed (to my horror) a sign directing me to the 'Stereo's'. I was initially most puzzled by what might belong to a stereo - Cables? Speakers? But alas, it was merely the oft sighted 'greengrocer's' apostrophe. The single, most upsetting example of what I speak of is in the New Lynn Warehouse - 'C/D,s'.
Every time I see it I die a little inside.
PS - if any of my fellow pedants in this thread haven't yet read 'Eats, shoots and leaves' By Lynne Truss, I suggest you'll enjoy it. I have a copy if anyone wishes to borrow it (but is at home in Waitakere, and I'm in Dunedin, so you'll need to wait).
It could perhaps even be adopted as the official BDOTGNZA copy? [Sadly, my copy is an older edition, and lacks the punctuation repair kit stickers.]
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