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coopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
( , Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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queue - as in standing in the queue.
cue - as in cue me getting a bollocking.
que - pronounced "k" as in manuel from fawlty towers.
I'm only a pedant when I'm tired, sorry.
( , Wed 31 Oct 2007, 16:46, 8 replies)
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I know if I was being a real pedant I'd put the accent or whatever above the u :p
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Cue, as in stick used for playing pool, snooker or billiards
( , Wed 31 Oct 2007, 17:23, closed)
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The commas you have inserted in each instance of 'as in' should not be there.
More common, though, is 'loose' instead of 'lose'.
*goes off to eat some 'potatoe's'*
( , Wed 31 Oct 2007, 17:27, closed)
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I find that a worrying amount of people use your in place of you're. It's both incredibly fucking annoying and terrifying - the person who's about to slice chunks out of my mother (surgeon), who's been through a good decade of intense training, doesn't know something I learned when I was seven.
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I'm glad the person who's going to slice chunks out of your mother *is* a surgeon!
Yes, I see the your/you're one around a lot, and it does annoy me. My boyfriend still makes the error even though I repeatedly tried to correct him, which, I know, makes me out to be a shrewish sort of girlfriend...but it was for his own good!
( , Thu 1 Nov 2007, 2:43, closed)
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my boyfriend call me the grammatical cat
as in, the grammatical cat strikes again! every time he does something like that
( , Thu 1 Nov 2007, 3:01, closed)
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Whenever I see a sign with shit grammar on it, I like to point it out very loudly and scathingly to mr b3th - preferably loud and scathing enough that the originator of the sign hears me.
I get glared at a lot, and most people think I'm a stuck-up snobby bitch.
I say 'fuck em' - it's not difficult, it's our own language, and anyone who can't use it correctly should be ashamed of themselves. I know quite a few foreign nationals who can write better English than a lot of Brits.
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to erase errant apostrophes from pub and restaurant "specials" blackboards, to the embarrassment of those with me.
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