How is it even possible?

dmpoole said:
The other one is 'ect'
The word is etcetera so it is 'etc'
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Yes, or use etc. when they mean 'et al.' or 'inter alia'.

P.S. it is actually two words in Latin: et cetera and should be pronounced as such, not 'ex-cetruh' as some do!

ChrisB said:
Advice and Advise annoy me. "Advice" is the noun, "advise" the verb.
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Likewise with practice and licence. The latter, in particular, is much abused here. I blame the Septics and the comprehensive education system.
 
It gets on my nerves a bit when people say then instead of than. The same with the whole brought/bought thing but ultimately it doesn't affect me so why should I care. :p
 
- Do you GOT a hammer?
- Yes, I GOT 2.


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say "you have a hammer" out loud then "you got a hammer" have just sounds wrong without "do"

one that annoys me the most is "I could care less"

No it's couldn't you chuffing yank!
 
I hate it when people say "nothink" as oppose to "nothing". My little sister does it all the time and I rip her to pieces for it. My parents laugh.
 
Buchanan0204 said:
Now I don't profess to be an English grammar expert, nor do I care when people make mistakes with there (just kidding, "Their") grammar.

However......

How is it humanly possible to replace the word "bought" with "brought." They sound nothing alike, nor do they share any relation in terms. Do they actually say this word when speaking? "I brought a new laptop today." Surely not!!

It's littered all over these forums and many other places.

It’s the same with "quite" and "quiet." However that's excusable, it's kind of similar and probably just a spelling mistakes. Adding a blatant "R" into a word is not an error on the keyboard.
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I mix up bought and brought. It's lazy pronunciation, rather than not knowing what I'm doing, though. My wife tells me off for it.

For the record, it would be perfectly valid to say "I brought a new laptop today" if you had, in fact, brought a new laptop with you to wherever you happened to be.
 
vonhelmet said:
I mix up bought and brought. It's lazy pronunciation, rather than not knowing what I'm doing, though. My wife tells me off for it.
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wow i've never heard someone mix up brought and bought, only ever in typed text (not hand written text)
 
vonhelmet said:
For the record, it would be perfectly valid to say "I brought a new laptop today" if you had, in fact, brought a new laptop with you to wherever you happened to be.
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Ah, but you should qualify it with the destination you had indeed brought it to, eg "I brought a new laptop into work today".
 
The absolute worst one for me is when people say:

"I could care less".

What?! You've totally missed the point. the whole idea of that statement is that you could *not* care any less than you already do - it's impossible to care less. If you say "I could care less" that implies that you already *do* care, and possibly quite a great deal, negating the statement.

It's an American thing - I hear it all the time in various TV shows from the states. And it's idiotic.
 
"To be honest with you..."

Oh. So you've been lying all this time, then? Thanks for that.

"We believe that the person we are looking for is a..."

Oh. So you mean that you've no conclusive proof of anything, and possibly no evidence whatsoever, but you're going to say this in such a way that the general public will think it's fact? Thanks for that. I wish people understood what "to believe" actually means. Police use it all the time, incorrectly.
 
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