Is there or are there?

[blue for life]

Anyone noticed is there used by a lot of people now when it should be are there? Not a grammar Nazi but it does rather annoy me a tad. Never used to be that way. Ready for pelters!

 

[AlexWilliamsGloves]

“Have” not “of”….that’s another that bugs me

Eccles Blue used to like my posts when I highlighted it :)

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Are there a problem here?

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Pacifically instead of specifically

 

[chesterbells]

Appeal the decision or appeal against the decision?

 

[hallsteve62]

'Gotten' really fucks me off.

 

[Metal Biker]

Are you joking me?

You've got another thing coming if you think you could of taught this generation about grammar.

To obsessed with there iphones and more bothered about loosing it than speaking proper.

 

[FinallyGoodwin]

Posted on another thread some time ago. But for me, people writing 'defiantly' instead of 'definitely'.

 

[Gabriel]

'Gotten' really fucks me off.

Particularly when City, our only-begotten, are criticised for spending their ill-gotten gains...

 

[bluesmith]

Are you joking me?

You've got another think coming if you think you could of taught this generation about grammar.

To obsessed with there iphones and more bothered about loosing it than speaking proper.

Loose / Loosing instead of lose / losing too?

 

[oakiecokie]

Pacifically instead of specifically

True story.
When Joe Mercer was Manager he used the word Pacifically during a half time team talk about the oppositions space they were finding and when the players heard this, one of them said "why boss have they got oceans of room".

 

[Blue Maverick]

Pacifically instead of specifically

Ha ha my wife says this cause she struggles to say specifically, we just take the piss out of her then get her to say Cinnamon, which she fails at as well. Always reminds me of Victoria Wood in Dinnerladies with minellium instead of millennium.

 

[cucumberman]

Besmirched
Albeit
Cacophony
Lackadaisical

I use those. Or these?

EDIT:
Or them?

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Are you joking me?

You've got another think coming if you think you could of taught this generation about grammar.

To obsessed with there iphones and more bothered about loosing it than speaking proper.

^^^These

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Besmirched
Albeit
Cacophony
Lackadaisical

I use those. Or these?

EDIT:
Or them?

I herewith and hereby advance my endorsement of 'Besmirched' for acknowledgement as 'Most tragically underemployed extant participle.'

 

[mosssideblue]

To
Too
Two

ie
eg

ect
etc

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

True story.
When Joe Mercer was Manager he used the word Pacifically during a half time team talk about the oppositions space they were finding and when the players heard this, one of them said "why boss have they got oceans of room".

Well he was Scouse, not English so it wasn't his native language.

When another Scouser, Joe Royle, was playing for us, Mike Channon had just joined and was having a difficult start. The team also hadn't started well but were on a run of 3 consecutive wins.

Royle was interviewed and they played it on the radio when we were on our way to Maine Road one Saturday. He talked about the team and agreed we'd had a poor start but then said "...but since then we've won three games in concession." He then talked about Channon, saying "He's come to a new club and is living away from his family. That's a hell of a transgression to make".
.

 

[oakiecokie]

Well he was Scouse, not English so it wasn't his native language.

When another Scouser, Joe Royle, was playing for us, Mike Channon had just joined and was having a difficult start. The team also hadn't started well but were on a run of 3 consecutive wins.

Royle was interviewed and they played it on the radio when we were on our way to Maine Road one Saturday. He talked about the team and agreed we'd had a poor start but then said "...but since then we've won three games in concession." He then talked about Channon, saying "He's come to a new club and is living away from his family. That's a hell of a transgression to make".
.

Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Scousers dont you love em. ;)

 

[City Hobgoblin]

 

[Elbow beards]

I written it instead of I wrote it.