Awake and up all night

Well sometimes those idiosyncrasies may be deliberate... to catch our attention and to raise the hackles of the proper use of English police.

Although we were never taught more than very basic grammar, one of our English teachers would festoon the margins of our work with red pen Gr.

He reckoned published authors can get away with stuff that he wouldn't accept from us and definitely bemoaned ...

'To boldly go,'  ... Star Trek's famous split infinitive.

Have you tried posting here using a smartphone? It annoys me that en route from my screen, there are interventions which decide what I should have put which then require many corrections.

Cheers

Oi! I now can't get chocolatey coconut loveliness out of my head ... and want it on my tongue!

 I am wondering if I have coconut as I have lots of white chocolate and  NO!

Stop it!

Cheers

Hello Dogdays ,

A vintage year if I may say so - 28th July for me.

 RayMK Please have this kitchen roll to stem the flow of your tears, scramble up from your now sudden carpet and accept this arnica for the bruises that will appear from beating your feet while you were down there. Brylcreem will have to suffice for making good the rending of your hair.

All is not lost. Gill H 's pronouncement of the demise of the Garibaldi is misinformed. Perhaps maliciously. Perhaps fig role associates are implicated.

Anyway, four major supermarkets claim national distribution and I can confirm that I purchased and consumed three mini packs of said comestible in a cafe on Friday.

Stressy declared them not proper but then so little is in his opinion.

Cheers 

I do post (mainly) using a smartphone but it wouldn't dare intervene.

Regarding 'proper use of English', sometimes style overrides this, especially in novels where the author's 'voice' comes into play. Novels may also use dialecal English in dialogue (e.g. D.H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"). Commercial companies, especially when translating from their home language to English, sometimes like to maintain their own grammar rules. Even UK English-based companies may have a style guide which details preferred options, for example to use the serial comma in an inline list or not, to spell 'organise' with a 's' or a 'z' - both are acceptable in the Oxford dictionary.

Teachers of English may be constrained by curriculum requirements. They are not qualified as proofreaders unless they go through the approved training set out by the professional bodies in the Uk, and in Ireland.

Incidentally, this is where AI can often not cope with UK English - I have seen 'organise' spelled both ways in the same document as AI picks up that either is okay - but it doesn't recognise that 'both' is not.

Evening Gill ️ 

I agree - I spend many an early morning spluttering with suppressed laughter (so I don't wake OH if my snorts drift upstairs) at the likes of Shimmer's and Ray's posts. An absolute tonic after an iffy day.

I'm sure a laughing socks off button isn't on offer in case it's accidentally pressed for a serious post. My clumsy fingers would definitely fall into that category.

I'm a devil for spotting spelling mistakes but the worst I saw was in Bridlington, many moons ago. The council had done up the whole promenade with fancy bits, looked lovely, and an array of city/town names in giant pink and white slabs to form a long and winding pavement. I was reading them as we ambled along, but pulled up short at Ipswich - some bright spark had wasted oodles of CT payers' money by spelling it IPSIWICH.

Smh xxx

I lied. Sorry Ray  

28 January for me. 

I've been out Garibaldied by the lack of local stock and out Eccled by my memory as I forgot to buy any last week. I'm down to an emergency supply of bourbons or, in an extreme emergency, there's a single Bounty frozen on to the cooling element at the back of my fridge. I'm reluctant to awake Garibaldi awareness with lamp post notices. I'll first see if Morrisons have any, empty their shelf if so, then catch up on dead fly biscuit eating for a few weeks. xxx

Derek! You're in Arizona again? It's only 2 minutes since you got back, pardner!

Have a great time y'all xxx