You dare to correct me? In a thread I started?
Same here. Apostrophes should only be used for possesives, and speaking of which, my biggest pet peeve is when companies that have historically used the possessive apostrophe drops them for stylistic reasons. For example, the book store Waterstone's dropped the apostrophe years ago to become Waterstones. Likewise, Madame Tussaud's did the same. To me, that makes the names imply that more than one Waterstone or Madame Tussaud founded those companies, and it also makes them forget their roots. Morrisons, however, is different. Although the supermarket chain was founded by William Morrison (hence the corporate name Wm. Morrison Supermarkets PLC), it has for years been a publicly-traded family company until the last Morrison involved in the company retired, so at least the lack of an apostrophe is justified, since it's the plural of a family name, as opposed to a possessive of a single person.
Much better than “walla” though
None. Most of the mistakes are by accident or by people who can't help it. My mother has a brain injury and misspells so many words, the spellcheck on her tablet is never even right.The number of people that feel the need to correct her is dumb.
If you can still understand what the person is trying to say, who cares how they spelled it. It's not a spelling test and you're not being graded.
You dare to correct me? In a thread I started?
Kidding, of course. Yeah, I know it's a word, but it's not the word. No relation to eating, at all.
Lighten up, Francis? Is it possible you missed the "
", the "kidding..." statement, and the acknowledgement that I'm aware it's a word? It's not THE word people use it as. However, out of courtesy, I will not edit my "A." to "The." in the quoted post.
