Pet peeves
'Can I get' instead of 'Can I have'

People who spell lose as loose - This really winds me up, because so many people get it wrong.
(Tetley, Fri 2 May 2008, 17:32, 10 replies)

hmm
fair enough
(conzo21, Fri 2 May 2008, 17:36, closed)

I know someone
who spelt the wee song "Frere Jacques" as "Fre-ru-za-ku"

It cracked me up 10 minutes later after I worked out what she meant....
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 2 May 2008, 17:39, closed)

but.......
try not to loose your temper
(magic the cat will someone please think of the kittens, Fri 2 May 2008, 17:40, closed)

MAY I
Not May the first,
surely it's may I have, not can I have. 'Can I' means you need permission to posess. 'May I' means you would rather like to posess
(lordy lordy, Fri 2 May 2008, 17:44, closed)

very funny baw bag
quite witty but what has that got to do with this comment lol. dont mean that in a bad way now!
(conzo21, Fri 2 May 2008, 17:47, closed)

It was a mis-spelling
that popped into my head as she also used "loose" a lot. In fact her spelling was completely attrocious but she was a lovely lass......
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 2 May 2008, 18:18, closed)

Um, no.
"May I" means you require permission. "Can I" means you want to know if it's possible. Either is valid. "May I" is simply the more polite, "Queen's English" option.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Fri 2 May 2008, 18:27, closed)

surely it is may
cos they are asking permission,

"can i poo on your leg?"

yeah it's possible - you are capable of pooing on my leg, however you most certainly may not.
(powertiger, Fri 2 May 2008, 18:32, closed)

"Fre-ru-za-ku"
During A-Level English Lit., our teacher started wittering on about Deus Ex Machina (God in the machine). I can't even remember which book this was in reference to now, but my classmate latched onto the phrase as being a key one and felt he could get extra brownie points by squashing it into his essay. He popped it into a sentence in the middle by hyphens, spelled "Doos Ecks Mackinna", took the teacher a while to figure that one out.
(sanity challenged, Fri 2 May 2008, 18:56, closed)

See also.
The 'there their' confusion and gimps who say brought when they obviously mean bought.
(lord nose, Mon 5 May 2008, 9:08, closed)