A spelling plea - dingy dinghies

[tcm]

"Enough people" ugh. You meant "a large enough number of people". Enough sand, enough food, anything measured as an amount.

God I love these threads

 

[Daydream believer]

A small boat is a dinghy, with an 'h'.

Dingy is an adjective, meaning dark, dirty, drab - which may describe your dinghy, but not mine.

As a sensitive soul, I'm upset reading about poor forumites with a dingy. A dingy what, I wonder?

try getting it correct with ageing fingers on an ipad

 

[RobbieW]

This years birthday card from SWMBO...
"Good sailors never grow old; they just get a little dinghy"

 

[Woodlouse]

Has there ever been a grammatically and linguistically correct complaint about grammar and language on the internet?

Truth be told the whole thing is so monstrously inconsistent and convoluted that very, very few people master the language and we should just accept that it constantly evolves anyway. The last thing we need is to be like the French who are constantly and desperately trying to keep their language in the 19th century.

 

[john_morris_uk]

Has there ever been a grammatically and linguistically correct complaint about grammar and language on the internet?

Truth be told the whole thing is so monstrously inconsistent and convoluted that very, very few people master the language and we should just accept that it constantly evolves anyway. The last thing we need is to be like the French who are constantly and desperately trying to keep their language in the 19th century.

...and there are many (sometimes too two many) uses of the word 'to' spelled or used incorrectly.

Actually the incorrect useage of 'two' 'too' and 'two' is mildly annoying along with 'they're', 'their', 'there' etc

 

[Krusty]

I wonder if I am alone in being intensley irritated by the use of "floor" to refer to the ground, pavement or field?; even on the BBC!
Surely a floor is a horizontal construction within a building? Or have I become ignorant in senility?

Perhaps the reason, or excuse, is that it requires placing a finger on no more than four keys?

 

[snooks]

It's all too confusing for me, I'll stick to pictures

 

[Lodesman77]

"Enough people" ugh. You meant "a large enough number of people". Enough sand, enough food, anything measured as an amount.

God I love these threads

less/fewer

much/many

yep, love these threads...

 

[Cool Guy]

Taught instead of taut riles me. Especially when in the yottie press.

Is that snottie yottie or snachty yachty?

 

[James_Calvert]

Is that snottie yottie or snachty yachty?

 

[dk]

I wonder if I am alone in being intensley irritated by the use of "floor" to refer to the ground, pavement or field?; even on the BBC!
Surely a floor is a horizontal construction within a building? Or have I become ignorant in senility?

Perhaps the reason, or excuse, is that it requires placing a finger on no more than four keys?

Er? Cast ye not a stone!

 

[Lakesailor]

MMGW.........and the people who deny it: deniers.....or denyers....or denyer's; none of these look correct.

None of them are correct. MMGW doesn't exist.

 

[elton]

"I was sat at the bus station"

 

[elton]

"I was sitting at the train station"

 

[Daydream believer]

Surely a floor is a horizontal construction within a building

May be a ceiling or a roof
There-- that's floored you