This not that

[auntiehill]

They're = They are
Their = belongs to them
There = location, as in over there.
Weather = is it raining outside?
Whether = indicating two alternatives

I remember applying for a job at a department store and the official company notice said, "All employees must wear they're name badge, weather their on the clock or not."

Good God.

I decided I really didn't want to work there after all.

 

[scotpens]

I remember applying for a job at a department store and the official company notice said, "All employees must wear they're name badge, weather their on the clock or not."

Good God.

I decided I really didn't want to work there after all.

Why not? Obviously they were in desperate need of one literate person!

There was a relevant discussion in the New York Times recently.

 

[Shatinator]

Actually it's...

"Rogue", not "rouge"
"Intact", not "in tact"
"Emperor", not "emporer"
"Should have", not "should of"
"Expat", not "ex-pat"
"Ridiculous", not "rediculous"
...

Excellent-

Classic David v. Goliath challenge, however!

 

[Amaris]

Loosened, not loosed.

Hey, no calling out other people's puns!

Oops, sorry, didn't realize it was deliberate.

That's quite alright, it's my fault anyway. I should've placed quotations around the word when making my point. Your observation is perfectly valid!

It's "lose", not "loose".

If your girlfriend is staggering to the bar, and your friend says: "lose girl." That's someone you want to get rid of.

If a girl you've never seen before is is staggering to the bar, and your friend says: "loose girl." That's someone you want to get to know.

This sums up my philosophy nicely, though there is usually more crying on my end.

 

[PopBoy]

The worst? Regardless and Irregardless.

 

[Shanndee]

The worst? Regardless and Irregardless.

Agreed!

 

[YellowSubmarine]

People never stop misunderestimating how untrustworthless they are on the subject of language. Irregardless of how many times you repost that picture, it's still a perfectly cromulent word.

 

[auntiehill]

The late Freddy Soto had a great routine about his father's strange attachment to using "regardless."
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruikQFr3Q-c[/yt]

 

[trekkiedane]

 

[Tora Ziyal]

^ Glad I didn't have anything in my mouth when I read that.

 

[Australis]

The " ' " (apostrophe) is used between a word and an "S" in order to suggest possession or ownership over something. It is also used to replace missing letters in a word or sequence of words in order to form a contraction. (cannot becomes "can't.")

The apostrophe is not used to make a singular noun a plural noun.

Examples please?

Addendum:
It is = it's
It owns = Its

 

[Trekker4747]

Pronouns are exceptions to the "possessive s" rule.

Anyway, it doesn't take much looking to see examples of people taking a (non pro) noun and making it plural by adding a " 's."

 

[auntiehill]

There's a store off the freeway here, with a huge sign that reads "CERAMIC'S."

Every time we drive by it, I sigh. Hubby tries to make me feel better by suggesting that the store might be owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ceramic.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

*sigh* tell me about it - my local baker is "open on sunday's from 8 to 10:30" Arrgh!!!!
Here on the BBS, you can occasionally find the wrong plural >'s< in posts made by native speakers of Dutch as in their language you really form the plural of certain nouns this way. As we all know it is difficult to overcome old habits. (Which is why we Germans are quite generous with commas in our posts )

What also irks me is that many fanfic authors seem unable to gather the difference between hangar and hanger. Even a master pilot might find it somewhat difficult to park a shuttle in as tiny a space as a hanger offers...

And then there's the difference between your and you're. "You're weapons don't work", is a sentence I found last week in an otherwise not all that bad Highlander fanfic. *shudders*

And while I am at it: dear writers of HL fiction, the guy's name is Connor, not Conner MacLeod!!

 

[Gryffindorian]

The worst? Regardless and Irregardless.

What's worse than irregardless?

Reguardless.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

do you have false comperatives and superlatives in English, too? In German so many people seek optimalest solutions (argh!! Optimal is already the best you can get!!)

 

[Trekker4747]

Here on the BBS, you can occasionally find the wrong plural >'s< in posts made by native speakers of Dutch as in their language you really form the plural of certain nouns this way.

It's my understanding that even that is getting somewhat archaic.

 

[BK613]

Reguardless.

Is that Nomad after he zaps the second pair of redshirts?

 

[archeryguy1701]

Boy, you guy's complain alot.

 

[auntiehill]

At lest were pacific about are complaints and dont take good grammer for granite, u no?



^that looks like the papers I read every day.