Whilst the English language evolves continuously (and the Hull dialect does so in parallel with it) I have always believed that, if you write or speak using correct English, you will never be ambiguous. Just now and again that can be really important.
Reminds of the zookeeper who wrote to the animal supplier, Dear Sir, I would like two *****oses, err mongeese, or is it mongii? Oh f**k it Dear Sir, Please send me a *****ose. No, on second thoughts I'll have two. Sorry chaps...
It's a big ask. Less people. What is the driver for change? Is the amout of money needed north of £100.00? All the above do my nut in when TV reporters say them. In legal circles people tend to use 'revert back to me' instead of return or send back. It's weird. I am far more forgiving on spelling etc. than I am to people using ****-like phrases such as 'north of'.
Not to me. The word that people tend to have great difficulty with on here is definitely, which almost daily is written as definately.
Capital letters, the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse
Confession, I altered a work colleagues spell checker on his pc once, to Jamaican English. The results were hilarious!
Or even defiantly, that drives me up the wall, as does a space between the end of a sentence and a question mark/exclamation mark, strangely the same culprits don't leave a space between the end of a sentence and a full stop or comma.
Funny seeing what irritates people! What gets me is when supposedly educated folk, eg newsreaders, say 'so-and-so happened at 3am this morning'...
Seem as it's that sort of thread, I'm going to pick you up on it. It could be 3am yesterday morning, I think you mean when people say 3am in the morning (which I did the other day and quickly corrected myself ).
The ones were people get the complete wrong word irritate me the most. Someone mentioned defiantly above, but been/being is one of the most common. Dunno if it's just a Hull thing but how do people confuse a one syllable word with a two syllable one? Turns out syllable is also hard to spell. Without predictive I'd have got that wrong.
I'm quite a Grammar Nazi despite making the odd mistake myself. It's hard to explain why though, it has just come out of people since laptops/tablets/phones have become prevalent. Maybe it has a link with OCD. It just feels like people are becoming dumber because of the lack of effort. I don't mind the odd, logical mistake but the "where/were, of/have, it's/its, their/they're/there, your/you're, except/accept and so on, really piss me off. Sometimes though there are some really ****ed up ones... spelling won when you mean one. The worst one I've ever come across, which lacks complete logic... "Know one is going to find them!" I mean for ****'s sake, he's added two extra letters to the most basic word in the English language.
