I switched my mortgage to a different lender because the document prepared for me by the first lender was riddled with errors.
You'd say "you have to line up there", "stand in that line", "the line up is there", "I'm going to line up", etc.
Originally Posted by Yosemite
Using cheque in Canada instead of check, colour instead of color, neighbour instead of neighbor, etc. are not an issue for me. I just read it and say, oh that person is obviously American if the words are spelled incorrectly.I work in the Canadian office of an American company and when corresponding with them regarding "cheques", I write "cheque". They reply using "check".
I feel that while I get sloppy when posting on an online forum, if I let that happen in law school it's considered massive failure and time to pack my stuff.
But, unfortunately not everyone goes to law school. I've seen instances where teachers cannot spell or use correct grammar themselves and I fail to see how they could possibly teach our young people under those circumstances. As I told that school principal when we had our interview for our daughter, if I cannot sew I seriously doubt anyone would put me in charge of a sewing class so how can teachers who cannot spell teach spelling? When I told them I would teach her to read and spell at home, they told me I should leave the teaching to them and concentrate on being a parent. I then told them that if I felt confident that they were capable of teaching her I would do that but since I knew her teacher couldn't spell and had not been able to teach her to read, that I would do that myself at home.
Originally Posted by strange_wings
^ This was in the local paper the other day (I tend to flip through them a couple days later) and thought of you.
http://comics.com/the_born_loser/2009-04-29/
What? myt? She always says 2dae - why not say today?
Aaaaand, a lot of British folks call me "Linder" instead of "Linda". Most annoying!Originally Posted by jezmondo69
ok someone may have already said this but i hate people using double negatives, imagine the situation.....
your window gets broken and you go outside and see some youths throwing stones, you confront one and your met with
"i aint done nothing" which is a double negative, if you havn't done nothing, that means you have done something, you see?
or....
you ask your friend to loan you some cash and they say
"i aint got nothing" so if you done have nothing, thats clearly means you do have something?
hope you know what i mean!
another local one here is people saying....
bockle instead of bottle
puggle instead of puddle
miggle instead of middle etc etc
and a birmingham (uk) thing is to add "ing" on words instead of "en"...
going up the garding (garden) etc
