The Pedant's Revolt

[gma]

and tissues!!!!!

Oh yuk!


Just received a voicemail message from a local carpet company telling me that the carpet I ordered, (for which I have already paid together with the delivery charge, underlay and fitting), had arrived in store and with a request for the following: "Can you call us and leddus know cos we wanna know if you still wanit fit'ed".

Firstly, I can indeed call, the question is - will I? Secondly, (and also lastly for the pedants amongst us), what do they think I'm going to do with it if I don't have it "fit'ed", roll it out across the lawn myself for the slugs to share with me?

[Richard Ruck]

From the CHA website:

"Correction to the Christ's Hospital Roll of Honour Old Blue article
The Old Blue, September 2008. Please note the following corrections:

1. Page 32. Caption to upper picture reads“Bishop of Westminster” and should be “Bishop of Worcester.”

2. Page 32. Lower left picture. The last word of the caption should be “CEMETERY” and not “Cemetry.”

3. Page 33. Final Paragraph. Penultimate sentence after “live” should read “with and tend”.

We apologise for any inconvienance caused by this error."

Ahem, 'these errors', shurely?

No inconvenience caused!

Richard

[J.R.]

EXACTLY, and don't call me 'Shirley' !

[matthew]

Ahem, 'these errors', shurely?

Unless the error in question was failure to proof-read.

I'm not sure whether proof-reading would have caught all that, though. My Old Blue arrived yesterday, but I've not had a chance to look at it yet.

[marty]

I've also noticed incorrect use of the word 'obviously'. It was a particular favourite of my gran who frequently inserted it into sentences when recounting a story. The problem was that at no point was any of it obvious at all.

I also can't stand the ubiquitous 'innit' at the end of every sentence, regardless of grammar or the sentence not even being a question: "I'm gonna watch the football, innit." No, no, no!

[J.R.]

I've also noticed incorrect use of the word 'obviously'. It was a particular favourite of my gran who frequently inserted it into sentences when recounting a story. The problem was that at no point was any of it obvious at all.

I also can't stand the ubiquitous 'innit' at the end of every sentence, regardless of grammar or the sentence not even being a question: "I'm gonna watch the football, innit." No, no, no!

I'm afraid thats an innovation of my Grand-Childrens generation, though happilly ours don't use it.

[marty]

Showing your age there JR!

[J.R.]

Showing your age there JR!

....... and proud of it !

[midget]

Well done that man all 6ft 2ins of him (whatever, and I hate that too)

[englishangel]

Please could I just point out (naming no names) that the word is INCIDENTALLY not INCIDENTLY

[Angela Woodford]

May I fume just a little at this time of year as the words "fair" and "fare" is replaced by "fayre"!

I can't bear it - I just can't!

Gerrie - I have encountered people who have fitted their own carpets - how I admire them! What a skill.

[midget]

May I fume just a little at this time of year as the words "fair" and "fare" is replaced by "fayre"!

I can't bear it - I just can't!

.

I agree. Why do they do it?

[Jo]

And speaking of fayres, since this thread is about pedantry: people will insist on talking about "Ye Olde Fayre" or some such, and pronouncing "Ye" with an initial Y. Whereas in fact "Y" for a while in middle English replaced the old English character "thorn", which represented the "th" sound. So it was never pronounced "Ye", but "The".

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

Hurrah ! for Pedants, of which I am proud to be one.
Apropos, "Names" : When I was admitted to Munchen Gladbach Military Hospital in 1956, we had to give our Rank and Names to the Clerk, in Reception----- Rank was obvoius -- being in Uniform, Evans , Neill Purdie ---- off to sit down.
The next "Candidate" was a Major ---- Name ? Moncrieff, Christian names ? "I don't use my Christian Names "
The Clerk : " i'm sorry Sir, I MUST have your Christian names " This exchange is repeated twice.
The Major "Right !" --- he then proceeds to give about TEN Christian Names, which has the Clerk scribbling down the margins of the form.
I, having sussed the situation, asked," You are Lord Moncrieff , are you the Moncrieff of Moncrieff ? "
He replied "No I am only a minor Moncrieff, and I am in the Army, because I have a crumbling Castle and an Estate that just runs itself ! I shouldn't have done that ---- but I can never resist Officialdom !"
I liked this man !

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

Another Post ---
Does anyone , as myself, collect stupid notices ? a few of my favourites are : Cattle please close gate-- Farm Crossing--
This door is alarmed (The next one is TERRIFIED !) and the best, so far, (On a Bin) Dog Waste , courtesy of the Friends of Upton House.
We might start a new Topic on "Notices " !