Nitpicking granny here; why do people say

Georgiagranny

Georgiagranny

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Hollo een?

It's All Hallow's Eve. Hallowe'en. The day/night before All Saints' Day.

Repeat after me: Hallowe'en. Practice it. It's easy. Hallowe'en.

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Another one: for all intensive purposes. Um, nope! That's all intents and purposes.

Or how about this written one? in do time. What???? In due time!
 

Because they know the word hollow, but they're not familiar with the word hallow.

For intensive purposes: They haven't seen it written (or they didn't pay attention), so they go with what they think they heard.

Due vs do: Mostly a regional variation.

These things don't bother me, even though correctness was important in the work I used to do. Some people are good at English; others are good at other things.
 

@hollydolly What got my Irish up is that "Hollo een" is the topic of the murder shows I'm watching this afternoon. Geez. On TV shows it can't even be pronounced correctly? And the newscasters on TV keep calling it "hollo" as well. These are people that we assume are at least well-enough educated that they should know better.

"I could care less" is one that bugs me, too.

Another is "peaked my interest"...it's "piqued my interest"!

"Accredidation" is one that drives me right around the bend! The root word being "credit" is a good clue, yanno? Accreditation.

@NorthernLight It's not a matter of being good at English. For heaven's sake, it's our mother tongue! Grammatical errors? Spelling errors? Sure. Those come under the heading of "not good at English" but the rest of it? Nope.

Bilingual? Multilingual? Yup. Those who are, get a pass. Those who speak only English? We all learned the same English in school...with allowances, for instance, in grammar/spelling/usage in other English-speaking countries.
 
Georgiagranny said:
@RadishRose Hallowed vs. hollowed? That doesn't wash unless you're talking about "hollowed" ground. I guess that would be ground that's been tunnelled. It's hallowed ground, as in Gettysburg.
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Ok, so you're saying Hal. As far as I know, most people say it that way. Hal o'ween. Even on TV and in cartoons and movies, people say "Happy HAL o'ween".
 
win231 said:
Its.....It's
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What a minefield that is. It's is a contraction and should be used where a sentence would normally read "it is." The apostrophe indicates that part of a word has been removed. Its with no apostrophe, on the other hand, is the possessive word, like "his" and "her," for nouns without gender.
 
I belonged to an online editors' group. If it had been a face-to-face gathering, we would have come to blows over whether it's "You've got another thing coming" or "You've got another think coming."

I really don't care how people write or talk, unless I'm being paid to correct them.
 
Don't stress people - read this ;)

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
 

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