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Thanks Frederick...........I'm totally confused now!! Must be an age thing............lol

Hi Frederick,

I did enjoy that so much. Thank you.

(Should dept. (which is a shortened word) perhaps read as debt?

I deplore the text writing, just feel that it's laziness, but I'm a wrinkly who was taught the basics very thoroughly, in a class of over forty children.

I'm sure there must be many others who sat at desks facing the teacher and the blackboard!!!


Norah

Decimate is to kill one in ten.

and so many using OF instead of HAVE - e.g. I could of eaten it all, I could of had another one!!! Grrrrrrrrrr

Agree Anne and said so on another thread tonight. Why aren't kids taught the Queens English nowadays.........ooops........I'm Irish...........lol

Off of

These ones!!!!!!

Obviously

Ah, Ann, my English teacher was a big stickler over the of/have thing I was alllllllways being corrected for it LOL.

Heard a woman with her baby the other day, "Come on let's give you your bockle"

I thought there's little hope for the next generation really.

Empty bottle of milk.

Sally F, apologies but I had to giggle, there is the whole alphabet on my phone, so not 'only a certain amount of characters to use' lol

I have started to abbreviate words on text messages (have not long learned to do those lol) so as to save time but don't like to see text speak anywhere else.
Lizx

Hi all

Most of the time the odd spelling or grammatical error does not bother me but no and know are completely different words so know what you mean!!

I agree Liz - don't mind text speak on my phone but on here or other sites I find it irritating and it always seems to me that the poster just can't be arsed to speak properly!

Kaz :o)))

"at this moment in time" - what's that all about? Why not just say "now", and "absolutely" instead of just "Yes" very irritating indeed

Hello Ann, where have you appeared from? Nice to see you here

Lizxx

just call me Pink Mamma - just back from Mexico and the shop keepers call you to come into their shops - hey Mamma - one shouted to me and I ignored him so he shouted again "Hey, Pink Mamma" - I was - and still am - very pink - my friend and I collapsed laughing

pmsl... Maybe that should be your new board name lol Sounds as tho you need stronger sunlotion lol

I am glad you had a good time, and hope your skin isn't too sore.
It's good to be 'in the pink' but not with sunburn lol

take care,
Lizxxx

Your/you're.

Their/there/they're.

Txt spk of any kind on an internet forum - including, but not exclusively - LOL

and finally.....

CAPITAL LETTERS FOR EVERYTHING.

Something that I believe originated in Formula one
"Foreign drivers' speak."

" For Sure" instead of certain/ certainly.

No way

Yes Sarah.......a lady called Ruth Miskin is going around the country with her R.W.I. project where the children learn how to use Fred fingers for spelling and oh don't forget the splitt e'sss...lol

And because of her, children are allowed to spell words as they sound, I just hope that by the time they reach yr 11 they know how to spell the words correctly.