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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

No, sounded southern, maybe Devon or thereabouts.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Are you also upset that "December" doesn't refer to the tenth month anymore?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I'm not entirely against it, but I'm amused by how common it is to put "whole" inside of "another", making it "a whole nother". Can anyone give any other use of the word "nother"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

The thing is that, at least in the UK, many people also say "of". You might say that in quick speech it's not possible to tell between "would've" and "would of" which is probably where this misspelling came from, but I once was talking to my English friend and after he said something quickly, I asked if he just said that "she would see it?", to which he replied "she would OF seen it" putting a lot of emphasis on that "of", making it clear that he wasn't aware that it should be "have".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, must of.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I remember once being on a call with some customer support guy who didn't seem to even be aware that words "you" and "me" exist. My favourite part of the conversation was when he said "let myself put yourself on hold while I ask a senior colleague to clarify this for myself".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's not so much on strict grammar, but it's a wonderful guide on clear writing and in general, clear expression of yourself. It does have a chapter on use and misuse of English, usually backed by data and only rarely being the expression of the author's personal preferences: The sense of style by Steven Pinker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Is that mildly infuriating or just mildly amusing?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

I don't know, the MW defines unstop as "free from obstruction" or "remove a stopper". You could say that the "stop" text functions as an obstruction or stopper, which you can remove in order to receive texts again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They should just make a captcha that asks how many 'r's in 'strawberry'.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I didn't Google it. I just figured, if it found me a 10% discount, the vendor would also send Honey some % of what I paid for the product.

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