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Especially when they go to so much trouble to make it WRONG.
No kidding! I have seen people arguing that the apostrophe denotes possession. I always think, "Why don't you take a minute out of your arguing to just pop your peepers into a grammar book and check it out?" It's easy to find every bit of information you could ever want or need with just a click or two!
In the parking lot of my local supermarket there are "deposit boxes" for clothing that people want to donate to charity. In order to try to prevent people from dumping clothing on the ground when the containers are full, the following advisory is stenciled on the boxes:
"I seen this" or "I seen that" I have been tempted to ask the offenders if they have ever used the word "saw", and how they would fit it into a sentence.
Yous! OMG, that one drives me right crazy!
A friend of mine was in a restaurant and the waitress came along and asked "what do yous want to eat?" My friend said to the waitress "probably grass, hay and oats" Of course the waitress didn't have a freaking CLUE what she meant and stood there with a blank look on her face.
"I seen this" or "I seen that" I have been tempted to ask the offenders if they have ever used the word "saw", and how they would fit it into a sentence.
Yous! OMG, that one drives me right crazy!
A friend of mine was in a restaurant and the waitress came along and asked "what do yous want to eat?" My friend said to the waitress "probably grass, hay and oats" Of course the waitress didn't have a freaking CLUE what she meant and stood there with a blank look on her face.
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
DH has a very sweet employee who says, "I seen." I have never had the heart to correct her.
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