The Grammar and Spelling Thread

[SlowwHand]

Given Jaguar's obvious consternation over the spelling of judgment, coupled with anything to get away from math, here's a thread of obvious need.

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Y'all. It's not "ya'll", it's "y'all".
A contraction for You all. All of you.
As in, "Do y'all want to hang DanQ in effigy?"

Yonder.
An indicated distance, usually within sight.
As in, "Y'all can hang DanQ in effigy over yonder".

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What else is a concern for y'all?

[Dauphin]

Its 'maths' not 'math'.

[LordShiva]

"Definately" is definitely one of my pet peeves.

[duke o' york]

You realise that this thread is the equivalent of a huge sign around your neck saying "Golf Sale" "Point out the least errors I may have made"?

Judgment on the west of the Atlantic, judgement on the east.

[Datajack Franit]

"Strength" not "Strenght"

[Krill]

b!tch not *****

[Dauphin]

Damn, no-one has complained about its and it's yet.

[Adalbertus]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Damn, no-one has complained about its and it's yet.

Why should I? Both do exist and have their meaningful use.

[Frozzy]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Damn, no-one has complained about its and it's yet.

Irregardless of you're concerns, we shold prey that its an issue that will be resolvd in a gloirus fashun.

[Solver]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Damn, no-one has complained about its and it's yet.

This one always surprises me. The sheer amount of native speakers making the its - it's mistake is amazing, given how it's a very simple rule. Certainly simple compared to the many other rules in English, but no - for some weird reason, you see people remembering the harder rules.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Solver
This one always surprises me. The sheer amount of native speakers making the its - it's mistake is amazing, given how it's a very simple rule. Certainly simple compared to the many other rules in English, but no - for some weird reason, you see people remembering the harder rules.

Its usually a typo.

[Solver]

I've seen plenty of people who make the mistake consistently. Over many different posts, or sometimes several times in the same post.

What annoys me even more, though, is a variation of that same mistake - ending a word with 's to denote the plural form...

[Barnabas]

Are then and than pronounced the same? I see many native speakers confusing them when writing.

I pronounce "then" with an e like in "let", and "than" with an a like in "and", but maybe that is wrong

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
Are then and than pronounced the same? I see many native speakers confusing them when writing.

Yeah, that's annoying too, as is the "their" and "they're" and "there" thing.

[Aeson]

My main (possible) infraction is using 's as a plural when applied to an acronym. I'm not sure it's correct, but it looks better.