Alice,
There are a few expressions which have crept into Australian English
(goodness knows from where) that really bug the pedants. These
include such phrases as:
- growing an economy, where the verb to grow seems to have
replaced those such as: to develop, improve, increase, enlarge,
The one that has crept into American English that irritates me is the
use of impacted instead of affected. For example, People were
impacted by the weather. What's wrong with People were *affected* by
the weather. (Unless, of course, people were in the path of a large
meteorite, in which
I can accept funny mistakes like those David quotes, but being a pedant, I
like the English language to be correct when it's been written by an English
speaker.
My local Tesco supermarket is currently undergoing improvement. When I
asked the Manager when it was changing to Waitrose
My sister and I were in a supermarket in Reading (when we were there for
Lace Convention) and there were two signs hanging side by side over some
cooked chickens.
We were busy discussing the bad grammar and spelling on both signs, when the
manager of the dept arrived and asked if he could
It was another Jean - I wasn't there :-D
Jean in Poole, Dorset
(And it was good to meet you Jean!)
Malvary in Ottawa (the nation's capital), Canada.
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At work we have the usual notices in the toilets reminding you to wash
your hands, including a large printed and laminated poster with a
diagram of a hand showing areas between the fingers highlighted and the
words
These are the areas that it is easy to miss.
I say it should be
These are the
--- Brenda Paternoster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
That's an official Kent County Council notice, ie
the Local Education
Authority!
The one that bugs me is a TV advertisement for a
college. They say that someone can get their training
in 'less hours'. That should be 'fewer hours'. I
guess
