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The Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation Thread [Merged]

Yes, in the last 24 hours I have found three errors in newspaper articles - and these are supposed to be the professionals. I have twice seen examples of ending a sentence with "in" and in Dean Jones' otherwise good article he spells Paul Sheahan "Sheehan".
All pretty disgraceful, really.
 
23.21.159 said:
Yes, in the last 24 hours I have found three errors in newspaper articles - and these are supposed to be the professionals. I have twice seen examples of ending a sentence with "in" and in Dean Jones' otherwise good article he spells Paul Sheahan "Sheehan".
All pretty disgraceful, really.
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That sort of problem isn't the journalists fault but more the lack of copy editors.
 
For those that were taught the English language and not the North American version I find it really annoying that people are writing and say 'anyways' instead of just 'anyway'.

I also get annoyed by MS Word and this bloody iphone trying to correct my spelling of words like 'specialise' to use a 'z' in lieu of the 's' even with the language set at Australian English.
 
YinnarTiger said:
Another one that I haven't seen here but I've heard from a few young people who can derive a verb from a preposition eg in round 1 this year Richmond will verse Carlton. That would easily pass most spelling checkers.
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Ha! My 14 y.o says that relentlessly!

14 year old ''Who are the Tigers versing this week''
Me ''do you mean who are they playing?''
14 y.o ''whatever''

Pokemon have a lot to answer for!
 
Sort of off track, but still interesting. This is from todays's NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/opinion/sunday/the-words-that-defined-2011.html?hpw
 
surely that was a joke?

As for "pronuncciation", ironically it's one of the most mispronounced and misspelt words in the language, but I've never seen it misspelt that way before.
 
23.21.159 said:
surely that was a joke?

As for "pronuncciation", ironically it's one of the most mispronounced and misspelt words in the language, but I've never seen it misspelt that way before.
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People say it different ways:

a. Pro nunce ee achun

b. Pro nounce ee achun

c. Pruh nunce ee achun
 
Following the raft of criticism the terms “apostrophe” and “@myer_mystore” have trended on Twitter.
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maybe it's because I don't use Twitter/Facebook, but when did "trended" become a word??? worse than "versing"
 
The caption under this photo is a disgrace:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/pictures/gallery-e6frf94x-1226311151422?page=14

I know I harp on about this a bit much. But this is the biggest newspaper in Australia. This is (supposedly) professional journalism, and it's where people should be able to learn correct grammar.

I asked my 17-year-old son to read it (and English is not even his first language), and he baulked as soon as he got to the error - spotting it straight away. Whoever wrote that caption should be utterly ashamed and/or sacked!
 
23.21.159 said:
The caption under this photo is a disgrace:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/pictures/gallery-e6frf94x-1226311151422?page=14

I know I harp on about this a bit much. But this is the biggest newspaper in Australia. This is (supposedly) professional journalism, and it's where people should be able to learn correct grammar.

I asked my 17-year-old son to read it (and English is not even his first language), and he baulked as soon as he got to the error - spotting it straight away. Whoever wrote that caption should be utterly ashamed and/or sacked!
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Well they have fixed it. The "their" was originally "there".
 
23.21.159 said:
Well they have fixed it. The "their" was originally "there".
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It said their when I read it. I thought you were referring to a missing apostrophe in St Pauls.
 
Ha! It was definitely the THERE that I was complaining about but I did wonder about the St Paul's too. Wasn't 100% sure that was incorrect but on research I guess it is ....
 
Massive Tiger said:
I think St Pauls is OK. Common usage or some such rule
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If common usage changes rules or names then most of the things mentioned on this thread would be acceptable.
 
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