Heres one that ive noticed a bunch recently. People saying "all of the sudden" vs the correct "all of a sudden".
It's 'All of a Sudden' (There's No 'The')
But 'all of the sudden' is making a statement online
www.merriam-webster.com
I know the standard and traditional way to make a verb past tense is to add "ed" to the end.
However, Texted sounds stupid and I refuse to say it.
But I'll bet you pronounce the T in often.
Umm, yeah. Because saying "Ofen" sounds like a redneck asking his Dad to get off on his sister. As is, "Dad, let me know when you get off'en sis, 'cause it's 'bout'en my turn."
One more for this resurrected thread, but sort of in the opposite direction -
The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
Calling a word that's been around so long "English" seems a bit of a stretch, but then most of our words didn't originate in English anyway.
- Oh, and one last thing: I challenge anyone to correctly pronounce the author's name.
Because the word "queue" exists.It was a joke, but as long as I already hurt your feelings. why is one silent letter any different than others?
Oh, and people really talk funny in your part of the country.
Because the word "queue" exists.
Please explain "lot's of" vs "lots of" vs "lots" vs "a lot of"Card carrying member of the grammar police. Got a badge: "To serve and correct."
Lot's of bad writing out there
Lot's: Bad writing attributed to Lot. Bad writing traced as far back as Sodom & Gomorrah. Biblical in proportions. Also attributed to fat fingers coupled with lack of adequate grammar & punctuation apps for internet posts.Please explain "lot's of" vs "lots of" vs "lots" vs "a lot of"
I before E, except after C, or if it sounds like A, as in neighbor or weigh.....
Just noticed this one. Here is a possible form of an answer.
Verily, one doth not shite upon thou, but prithee, dost the bear hath shat within the wooded glen, and surely the Pope within the Vatican?Just noticed this one. Here is a possible form of an answer.
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How do you do with The Chaos poem?Hi! I absolutely agree that English is a crazy language. I've been learning it for 5 years now.
I’ve been studying it for 73 years, I’ll let you know when I have it totally down pat.Hi! I absolutely agree that English is a crazy language. I've been learning it for 5 years now.
The thing about that article is that it's.... written in English.English doesn't even crack the top ten most difficult languages.
Although experts disagree, I cannot find English in the top ten of any list. Some even include the (so-called) native American language of Navajo in the top ten.
...but...I'll never forget the first time I heard the word Ghoti.
The thing about that article is that it's.... written in English.
An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
A Lake Erie Walleye walks into a bar, gets stabbed in the gut and eviscerated; a man cries out, "Lead from the front!"You're not a necromancer if it's your own thread.
English walks into a bar.
A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
A question mark walks into a bar?
A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
A synonym strolls into a tavern.
At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
A dyslexic walks into a bra.
A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television getting drunk and smoking cigars.
A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.