[Closed] You're vs Your

Cougar
I wouldn't hold you're breathe.

Fixed.

"Led" and "lead" would be good, too.

My wife and I (plural) are a couple (singular).

Collective nouns are singular.

A football team (singular)
A heard* of cows (singlular)

* JUST KIDDING!

One that has always boiled my pizzle...

Third party - 'Can I lend your xxxxx?'

Me - 'Sure, who do you want to lend it to?'

Cue puzzled silence.

Is it any wonder?
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17855980 ]

An 1230 BST news conference has been called at the Nou Camp, where he is expected to explain the decision.

Is not the use of the apostrophe lazy in itself?
Surely one should write "you are" and "they are", unless quoting wot sum1 has spoked?
Is this not the case brother/ innit bruv?

I find all of these really annoy me, 'you're/your' and 'should of' being about the worst.

It seems the common defense is "I'm writing on a forum, not an academic paper, who cares", but to mix things up just makes me think people genuinely don't know which to use, it's not a convenience thing like, for example, contractions or slang, which I don't have an issue with.

Didn't know about summ-at, I'd always say sommat (somm-at), is that allowed!?

Edit: yes

Collective nouns are singular.

Someone needs to tell the Australians this. I'm sick and bloody tired of hearing "...and Australia is 300 runs behind with one wicket in hand..."

In this context, "Australia" is referring to a team of individuals, and therefore "...Australia [b][i]are[/i][/b]...."

Boils my piss, I tell thee!

One that has always boiled my pizzle...

Third party - 'Can I lend your xxxxx?'

Me - 'Sure, who do you want to lend it to?'

Cue puzzled silence.

[b]TO WHOM DO YOU WANT TO LEND IT?[/b]

Good God man!

Zokes: yes. Australia are 200 runs behind, or the Australian team is 200 runs behind.

It seems the common defense

Zokes: yes. Australia are 200 runs behind, or the Australian team is 200 runs behind.

In fact, it's only just about bearable thanks to the score - Australia being 300 runs behind is quite funny, whether or not it's announced with correct grammar 😆

Camera phones luckily give us a chance to share all the interesting language items we find around us. Here's some of my recent finds:

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Did Molly build the shop herself? I'm sure this listed building was built long before she was even born.

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This is why a dictionary is handy.

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A contentious advert.

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Given the destruction of our societies pensions, could this be harking back to the old communities where if someone became a hindrance and there was little wealth/food to go round, they were sent on the 'long walk' to eliminate the drain on food stocks.

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That asterisk denotes conditions. Conditions that should be on the bottom of this poster.

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They want Gordon Ramsey, but they'll take the right person provided they're a 'cock'.

That asterisk denotes conditions. Conditions that should be on the bottom of this poster.

It's also missing a possessive apostrophe after "callers".

"My aunt, [i]who I live with[/i], has a parrot called the South Sea Bubble"

Anyone old enough (NTNO'CN)??

Did Molly build the shop herself? I'm sure this listed building was built long before she was even born.

Now you're just trying to be a smart-arse. The building is only a shop as long as there is a retail business in it. So yes, Molly did create the shop and it is hers.

I've just been informed after posting the PO poster elsewhere that the original has text at the bottom, and that in the PO in London there is a sticker covering the text. The photocopy of the original we have up here is altered to cause this issue, but someone forgot in both cases to remove the asterisk.

@Molgrips, "shop" here can be taken to mean not just current usage, but the bricks and mortar presence too. Unless you're too settled in the lack of new builds over the last 20 years that are causing such grief in this country.

I was just thinking how incredibly painful it would be if your piss really did boil.

Now I need the toilet but frankly, I'm too scared to go.

@Molgrips, "shop" here can be taken to mean not just current usage, but the bricks and mortar presence too.

Depending on context, yes. And it's absolutely obvious in this context that it's Molly's shop.

So the OP is talking arse.

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Bet they can't even spell bureaucracy either.

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Keeping it in the family

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You can tell the cheap imports.

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OCR is getting better, but it's not quite there yet.

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A new sport for the jubilee this year, Royal Tossing.

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A classic 🙂

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Today a 52/53 year old says over 50's should resign and let the young come through into work. A bit Logans Run-esque, or so I thought at first, when I vaguely thought the Carrousel ceremony was at 40, but a friend pointed out it was in fact 30.

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SRSLY?

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At the heart of the problem

Earlier today, I discovered that my Indian copyeditors had changed the sentence '... structure that is between six and 20 times more dense than ...' to 'structure that is between six and 20 times more denser than'.

FFS.

Granted [i]my[/i] Urdu, Hindi and Tamil is pretty ropey, but I'm not offering my services in these languages!

I've been trying to educate them as to the difference between a noun and a verb for the past 6 years too. I'm still asked to 'advice' on stuff now.

Lazy writing is a sign of lazy thinking. I think it was Orwell who said that, CBA to check though. 😉

old says over 50's

grrrr

Why isn't it 'between six and twenty times' or 'between 6 and 20 times'?

Or even 'between six times and twenty times' 🙂

we have guidelines at work that stipulate that numbers less than ten should be written in words, and over 9 should be written as a numeral.
unless it's at the beginning of a sentence where it should be a word.

which makes starting a sentence with 2012 quite difficult.

Don't start with 2012 then.

Reminds me of the yank classroom prescriptive passive sentences bollox.

Googling is a good way to see how specific word variations are used in particular areas of the world. "softwares" is a basic starting point if you want to look into these things. Once you figure it out, creeping contemporary language change can be identified in CMC.

Don't start with 2012 then.

I think I'd make a point of doing that just to demonstrate what a stupid rule it is.

Don't start with 2012 then.

Don't start with 2012 then.

but 2012 is only one number isn't it.
your argument doesn't help for sentences that begin with 2013.
what about 11452 or 98882?
or 11452?
I'm sure there are more examples too.

but 2012 is only one number isn't it.

"Two thousand and twelve", or do we use the media/olympics darlings phrase, "twenty-twelve"?

EDIT: written it isn't too long, spoken it's only three syllables. Like speaking the 9 syllables in the "WWW" part of a URL, "Double-U, Double-U, Double-U," when it's only three syllables to say, "World Wide Web."

2012 Just use "This year"

do we use the media/olympics darlings phrase, "twenty-twelve"?

Why is that a media/olympics phrase? Seems right to me.

In 1983 did you say "nineteen-eighty-three" or "one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-eighty-three"?

In 1983 did you say "nineteen-eighty-three" or "nineteen-thousand-and-eighty-three"?

What I [i]said[/i] was, "eighty three." What I wrote was different 🙂

Like speaking the 9 syllables in the "WWW" part of a URL, "Double-U, Double-U, Double-U,"

"dub-dub-dub" or "triple-dub"

....My wife and I are a couple. We is not a couple.

Make your mind up ! 

You either is or you ain't

... I'm sick and bloody tired of hearing "...and Australia is 300 runs behind with one wicket in hand..."

I know it's shocking isn't it, they were brilliant not so long back too. 

...Zokes: yes. Australia are 200 runs behind, or the Australian team is 200 runs behind.

Having said that, looks like they are closing the gap fast !

brakes - Member
we have guidelines at work that stipulate that numbers less than ten should be written in words, and over 9 should be written as a numeral.
unless it's at the beginning of a sentence where it should be a word.

which makes starting a sentence with 2012 quite difficult.

From the Economist Style Guide:

Never start a sentence with a figure; write the number in words instead.

Use words for simple numerals from one to ten inclusive, except: in references to pages; in percentages (eg, 4%); and in sets of numerals, some of which are higher than ten.

Deaths from this cause in the past three years were 14, 9 and 6. Always use numbers with units of measurement, even for those less than ten: 4 metres, but four cows

It is occasionally permissible to use words rather than numbers when referring to a rough or rhetorical figure (such as a thousand curses, a hundred years of solitude). In all other cases, though, use figures for numerals from 11
upwards.
first to tenth centuries, the 11th century 20th century, 21st century 20th-century ideas in 100 years’ time
a 29-year-old man a man in his 20s 20th anniversary
The Thirty Years War is an exception.

Leading to the age-old scenario:

Author: *%^%$^%*&^$$££"£""****!!!!

Subeditor: House style guv.

Mistakes with homophones seem very common at the moment too- toe path, mute point, pouring over etc. etc.

What about "brought" instead of "bought"

I wouldn't go as far as to say it "boils my piss" but I find it remarkable that people think its the right word to use to describe what they did.

"Bridalway" always makes me chuckle, all those girls in meringue dresses blocking the singletrack...

+1 for "couple" being a singular word, can't believe it's even up for debate, or are some people going to deny the existence of the plural form "couples?"

Whenever you need to comfort a stressed out grammar nazi, give them a hug and whisper "there they're their' I'm their ear...

ernie_lynch - Member

Of all the worlds trouble and strife, the odd spelling mistake "makes your blood boil". You've obviously got little else to worry about.

But surely that's the whole point ?

There is enough misery in the world without [b]plying[/b] on further misery with the incorrect application of your and you're.

I'm late to this I know but liked ernie's joiner based language...

You find my creative use of english laminating ?

it's making my eyes saw

That's plane to see.

it's making my eyes saw

I was raised to believe it is bad manners to correct somebody when they are speaking.

But, this drives me bonkers:

Pacfic - it's an ocean. You mean "specific", and even then, you probably mean discrete.

Probably better than what you mitre used.

To the OP.

Your talking out you're a**e.

Only joking

I wonder where the Scottish plural "you's" fits in all this?

As in: "See you's? You's are aw pure mental but!"

"dub-dub-dub" or "triple-dub"

I use "wuh-wuh-wuh".

I wonder where the Scottish plural "you's" fits in all this?

That's not a plural. A plural would be "yous."

"Bridalway" always makes me chuckle

In my line of work, I often see "Principal Engineers." All these engineers looking after our moral fibre.

In my line of work, I often see "Principal Engineers." All these engineers looking after our moral fibre.

My boss is a Principal Scientist. She researches our morals 😆

Spotted this in TK Maxx today.

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Utterly meaningless. What are they saying here, "the most you'll ever save with us is 60%, might be nothing at all"?

Utterly meaningless. What are they saying here, "the most you'll ever save with us is 60%, might be nothing at all"?

In a job some 20 odd years ago the employer told us during salary negotiations that we wouldn't be earning more than 25k, a tidy sum at the time. I walked soon after.

This thread is really hard work. I can't decide whether the complaints about the correct use of 'Principal' above are more manifestations of Muphry's Law, irony or ignorance.

[i]Nothingk[/i] boils my pish.

I can't decide whether the complaints about the correct use of 'Principal' above are more manifestations of Muphry's Law, irony or ignorance.

Gods damn it, well spotted. It's the former; I have to type it fairly often (and used to be 'Principal Support' myself) so that it's actually hard for me to type incorrectly, even intentionally.

"Principle Engineer" is what I meant to say, of course.

Speaking of linguistic annoyance,

Once and for all, on a bike forum especially, one does not stop a bike using disc "breaks".

I can't decide whether the complaints about the correct use of 'Principal' above are more manifestations of Muphry's Law, irony or ignorance.

OOPS 😳