Bad English.

[coffeejo]

Whatever happened to shops?

The internet.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Anothe classic is "Ears pierced while you wait." How else are you supposed to get them done?

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Anothe classic is "Ears pierced while you wait." How else are you supposed to get them done?

 

[jonesy]

Call centre speak: "please could yourself send the details to ourselves" grrrr....

 

[vernon]

That rivals my 'trespassers will be persecuted'

 

[gavroche]

presentperfect tense!!
WTF is that? There is no such thing as present perfect. The perfect tense refers to the past so cannot be present.

 

[MontyVeda]

What realy pisses me off gets my goat is the lack of linkng words in ads these days such as, buy the product in store rather than buy the product in the or a store.

That reminds of another advertising bug bear, or bare

Advertising the prices as "five four nine" instead of "five hundred and forty nine pounds"

 

[Arch]

presentperfect tense!!
WTF is that? There is no such thing as present perfect. The perfect tense refers to the past so cannot be present.

Wasn't me said that...

But I think Globalti is right. The name, like the usage, is a bit wrong.

 

[Fab Foodie]

It's the spellling that gets me - pedles and pedels especially!

... and pedals.

 

[Hover Fly]

...could have went for the last...

You know who you are, as do we, we'll be sending the squirrel monkeys round.

 

[davefb]

presentperfect tense!!
WTF is that? There is no such thing as present perfect. The perfect tense refers to the past so cannot be present.

http://www.englishpa...entperfect.html

mind you that grammar , its all gibberish to me..


wrt. 'have' 'of'

must admit, this used to wind me up when i moved to lancashire from yorkshire they seemed to say it a lot... but i do wonder if it's actually a throwback to some archaic form? ( though its probably just lazy )

 

[Black Sheep]

personally I sit in work's cellar on my lunch break and fix my brakes


is it disk or disc?

 

[Fab Foodie]

personally I sit in work's cellar on my lunch break and fix my brakes


is it disk or disc?

Disc.

 

[davefb]

Disc.

some notes on here....


http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disc


latin discus , saxon disk

 

[asterix]

'Every little helps'

How can an adjective help? A little what?

Anyway, think big, guys.

'Every big helps' would be better, wouldn't it?