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Originally posted by onetoo:

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
The past tense ends in 'ED' (generally) not 'T'

i.e.
spelled, not spelt
burned, not burnt
smelled, not smelt
etc.

Haven't we spoke about this in another thread on C4 Fluff? Did we not decide that at least two of them could be used either way

We did. and I can't remember.

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Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:
Ooh, this is turning into a proper little pedants corner isn't it? I love it!

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
can i point out that there appear to be two FMs on 12?

Well spotted Fluffy, I must have been unconsciously trying to avoid 13!

The have/of/would've club
1.Supercalifragilistic
2.Jeggo
3.Blackpudlian
4.Blizzie (?)
5.PussycatJ
6.Storm
7.SazBomb
8.Onetoo
9.Moomin
10.Joods
11.Queen of The High Teas
12.Squiggle
13.Cinnamon girl
14.Sezit
15.Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing
16.Littleleicesterfox
17.Twee Surgeon

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Originally posted by Supercalifragilistic:

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Originally posted by onetoo:

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Originally posted by Supercalifragilistic:

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
The past tense ends in 'ED' (generally) not 'T'

i.e.
spelled, not spelt
burned, not burnt
smelled, not smelt
etc.

Think I say burnt

I burnt my fingers or, I burned my fingers

I thought burned was present tense and burnt past tense..but I'm probably wrong!

Burn is the present tense burned is past tense. As onetoo says burnt has benn given the official go-ahead. However I am of the opinion that is because of laziness (on the part of the Powers that Be) and to me it still seems incorrect.

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Originally posted by Rawky-Roo:
I know it's spelled 'During' but how is it pronounced?

Is it Jur-ring or Dur-ring?

Dew-ring.

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Originally posted by Bethni:
My dad used to drive me mad with San-yoi instead of Sanyo and Penelop instead instead of Penelope lol. My mum always got her words wrong...one time watching tv in a bar she called out, 'look at the size of those testicules', when it was an octopus on the screen

Ah love malapromisms Bethni...they really make me laughfamous malapropisms

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:

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Originally posted by Supercalifragilistic:

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Originally posted by onetoo:

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Originally posted by Supercalifragilistic:

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
The past tense ends in 'ED' (generally) not 'T'

i.e.
spelled, not spelt
burned, not burnt
smelled, not smelt
etc.

Think I say burnt

I burnt my fingers or, I burned my fingers

I thought burned was present tense and burnt past tense..but I'm probably wrong!

Burn is the present tense burned is past tense. As onetoo says burnt has benn given the official go-ahead. However I am of the opinion that is because of laziness (on the part of the Powers that Be) and to me it still seems incorrect.

The ed or t endings are both correct on the irregular verbs you have mentioned. I`m sure I posted this earlier.

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As onetoo says burnt has benn given the official go-ahead.

Don't think that was me Fluffers

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Originally posted by onetoo:

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As onetoo says burnt has benn given the official go-ahead.

Don't think that was me Fluffers

Sorry! Someone did though.

Number 17 is great. Can I make a suggestion for the name of the Club?

How about Number X of 'The Misuse of 'of' Club'

or

Number X of the Misuse of 'of' Society

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:

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Originally posted by onetoo:

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As onetoo says burnt has benn given the official go-ahead.

Don't think that was me Fluffers

Sorry! Someone did though.

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:
Number 17 is great. Can I make a suggestion for the name of the Club?

How about Number X of 'The Misuse of 'of' Club'

or

Number X of the Misuse of 'of' Society

Both sound good to me, but onetoo had already put something else in their sig...over to you onetoo for the final decision!

Yes I like either one of those It's whether to use club or society. Society slightly gets the upper hand in my opinion, but I'll go with the flow

Im carp at spilling and grimmar..

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:
Number 17 is great. Can I make a suggestion for the name of the Club?

How about Number X of 'The Misuse of 'of' Club'

or

Number X of the Misuse of 'of' Society

I like that, and I'd think it wold HAVE to be a Society.

And there's another example. It's defINITEly not definately, or any other strangulation of the word.

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Originally posted by onetoo:
Yes I like either one of those It's whether to use club or society. Society slightly gets the upper hand in my opinion, but I'll go with the flow

Ok let's go with Society, (third time lucky an all that!)...goes off to add sig

Update on SIG

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Originally posted by moonie:
Im carp at spilling and grimmar..

Onetoo, we have both, independently opted for society. So I think that clinches it. Doesn't it?

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Originally posted by onetoo:
Update on SIG

Me too..testing!

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Originally posted by onetoo:
Yes I like either one of those It's whether to use club or society. Society slightly gets the upper hand in my opinion, but I'll go with the flow

Bliddy hell, I wish you lot would make your minds up, that's twice I've had to change my sig now!

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:
Number 17 is great. Can I make a suggestion for the name of the Club?

How about Number X of 'The Misuse of 'of' Club'

or

Number X of the Misuse of 'of' Society

I like that, and I'd think it wold HAVE to be a Society.

And there's another example. It's defINITEly not definately, or any other strangulation of the word.

fluffy, for years I have spelt (or is it spelled lol) definitely definately. It was only about five years ago I caught on to it and I think of all those documents with my mistakes on them

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Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:
Bliddy hell, I wish you lot would make your minds up, that's twice I've had to change my sig now!

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Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:

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Originally posted by onetoo:
Yes I like either one of those It's whether to use club or society. Society slightly gets the upper hand in my opinion, but I'll go with the flow

Bliddy hell, I wish you lot would make your minds up, that's twice I've had to change my sig now!

PMSL! Sorry

On a related theme, the spelling of minuscule gets me. I was quite happy for years and years spelling it miniscule and then I found out that was wrong. And when I told my daughter (who is also pretty hot on spelling) she totally refused to believe me.

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Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:

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Originally posted by onetoo:
Yes I like either one of those It's whether to use club or society. Society slightly gets the upper hand in my opinion, but I'll go with the flow

Bliddy hell, I wish you lot would make your minds up, that's twice I've had to change my sig now!

Hehe! I just waited until all the humming and hawing was over.

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Originally posted by GreyKitten:

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Originally posted by queenshaks:
There is no such word as brang!


Also me ma in law used to visit a market in Hackey, it was on Wrigley Road but always called it Ridley Road.

Think you mean the other way round Queen! It's definitely Ridley Road, I used to live just round the corner - but I've heard people say Wrigley Road.

See how the woman has me confused as well!

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:
'skellington', as used by Lisa when describing Angel's physique. As in 'she is like a skellington' lol

Oh yes!

Oooh when Americans say I-Raq instead of Iraq.

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:
Number 17 is great. Can I make a suggestion for the name of the Club?

How about Number X of 'The Misuse of 'of' Club'

or

Number X of the Misuse of 'of' Society

I like that, and I'd think it wold HAVE to be a Society.

And there's another example. It's defINITEly not definately, or any other strangulation of the word.

fluffy, for years I have spelt (or is it spelled lol) definitely definately. It was only about five years ago I caught on to it and I think of all those documents with my mistakes on them

Oh dear! Just tell 'em it must have been your long lost twin.

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Originally posted by Liverpoollass:

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:
'skellington', as used by Lisa when describing Angel's physique. As in 'she is like a skellington' lol

Oh yes!

Oooh when Americans say I-Raq instead of Iraq.

The Americans say everything wrong.

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Originally posted by Twee Surgeon:

fluffy, for years I have spelt (or is it spelled lol) definitely definately. It was only about five years ago I caught on to it and I think of all those documents with my mistakes on them

Think sometimes we only know things are an sp when someone points it out and then realise we've been doing it for years without knowing Someone at my work, (a senior staff member!) always writes as instead of has in her emails, I think she'd die if she knew, so somehow can't bring myself to tell her. My older sis says 'of' instead of 'have,' but don't think she'd thank me for pointing it out!

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Originally posted by queenshaks:


The Americans say everything wrong.

Very true

Bloomin eck! Some strong feelings in here but as Super says....if it gets just one person to change the 'of' thing, then it will have been worth it. I can live with the rest.

I know people who say Burminam rather than Birmingham.

I knew another that came from there and pronounced it BirMINGam in a her broad brummie accent.


People from Birmingham are mental.

The very worst spelling mistake I ever seen was on an official legal document. Someone had made a Witness Statement and it went something like this

'I noticed the man had very big mussels'

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Originally posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:

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Originally posted by Queen of the High Teas:

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Originally posted by onetoo:
Yes I like either one of those It's whether to use club or society. Society slightly gets the upper hand in my opinion, but I'll go with the flow

Bliddy hell, I wish you lot would make your minds up, that's twice I've had to change my sig now!

Hehe! I just waited until all the humming and hawing was over.

I was going to suggest the 'Pedantry Conglomerate' but DH always I use 300 words when 3 will do!

And, Shaks and LL - Americans make my blood boil (sorry mods) - DERR-by instead of DAR-by. We named it first you lot! Mind, my grandma says it like that - I wonder if there's something that I don't know about going on?

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Originally posted by onetoo:
Bloomin eck! Some strong feelings in here but as Super says....if it gets just one person to change the 'of' thing, then it will have been worth it. I can live with the rest.

Pity my older sis isn't on this forum

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Originally posted by queenshaks:
I know people who say Burminam rather than Birmingham.

I knew another that came from there and pronounced it BirMINGam in a her broad brummie accent.


People from Birmingham are mental.

Where I come from we say Birming-gum. For years I thought that it had -gum at the end!

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Originally posted by littleleicesterfox:


And, Shaks and LL - Americans make my blood boil (sorry mods) - DERR-by instead of DAR-by. We named it first you lot! Mind, my grandma says it like that - I wonder if there's something that I don't know about going on?

Oh and with their spelling of putting a z where it should be an s

Sorry too mods

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Originally posted by Liverpoollass:

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Originally posted by littleleicesterfox:


And, Shaks and LL - Americans make my blood boil (sorry mods) - DERR-by instead of DAR-by. We named it first you lot! Mind, my grandma says it like that - I wonder if there's something that I don't know about going on?

Oh and with their spelling of putting a z where it should be an s

Sorry too mods

And then they call it a 'zee' instead of a 'zed' and then Stuart in BB last year did that too