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Smudge wrote:I can live with the usual obvious "typos" and shrug off the modern trend
where anything goes.
What really annoys me is the ignorant use of the word "of" instead
of "have".
It was used three times in an email I received yesterday from "Homebase".
It is not up to me correct anyone's spelling but this sort of thing makes
my blood boil and despair of the educational system in the UK.
I have a Swiss student who does British A-level exams in her third language - she speaks German, French, English and Italian in that order.
She manages to spell words correctly, use correct grammar and so on.
Dyslexics have an excuse (my stepson is one)but others don't. Don't blame teachers, they have tried their best. Too many of the students are fully paid up members of the CBA squad (can't be aXXXXd)along with their parents and ther homes where there are no books. I teach A levels and a third of my students 'don't read'. They do know how to play on their mobiles and have PhDs in FaceBook. That's where the problem lies.
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Smudge wrote:I can live with the usual obvious "typos" and shrug off the modern trend
where anything goes.
What really annoys me is the ignorant use of the word "of" instead
of "have".
It was used three times in an email I received yesterday from "Homebase".
It is not up to me correct anyone's spelling but this sort of thing makes
my blood boil and despair of the educational system in the UK.
I have a Swiss student who does British A-level exams in her third language - she speaks German, French, English and Italian in that order.
She manages to spell words correctly, use correct grammar and so on.
Dyslexics have an excuse (my stepson is one)but others don't. Don't blame teachers, they have tried their best. Too many of the students are fully paid up members of the CBA squad (can't be aXXXXd)along with their parents and ther homes where there are no books. I teach A levels and a third of my students 'don't read'. They do know how to play on their mobiles and have PhDs in FaceBook. That's where the problem lies.
What on earth does this have to do with Leicester Tigers?
what on earth does this have to do with Leicester Tigers?
I thought this was a rugby forum!
Without insulting you, being sharp or putting you down, don't you think
you should have read the previous posts to this thread before making that comment?
what on earth does this have to do with Leicester Tigers?
I thought this was a rugby forum!
Without insulting you, being sharp or putting you down, don't you think
you should have read the previous posts to this thread before making that comment?
Regardless of the previous posts it still has nothing to do with rugby.
Oh I don't know, all this talk of spelling has suddenly made me nostalgic for the days when the players had letters rather than numbers on their shirts.
DaveRave wrote:Oh I don't know, all this talk of spelling has suddenly made me nostalgic for the days when the players had letters rather than numbers on their shirts.
That's when it all started to go wrong. You could no longer learn what ABC meant! Or the letter O was the start of a phrase when the full back dropped the ball.
Of course this is my own opinion and other posters may have a different perceived factual viewpoint.
I remember years ago when we were due to play Northampton. The stains wore letters in those days as well. There was a cartoon in the Telegraph of the Tigers players spelling out 'NEIL BACK' and the Stains players spelling out 'NICK BEAL' and pointing out that the names were anagrams of each other.
Ze Stade Fan wrote:(BTW is it "a" or "an" honest laugh?)
ZSF - I'm assuming this was a genuine question I have always worked on the basis of the sound of the following word. If the word has a vowel (A,E,I,O,U) sounding start then it's 'An' or 'an', it if has a consonant (Remaining letters of the alphabet) sounding start then is 'A' or 'a'.
A Howling wind; A Cat
An Honest mistake - the starting sound (at least to me) is the 'O'; An artist.
etc etc
It's the sound rather than the physical spelling (I think!), I'm not A teacher but seem to remember this, hope it, and the following link helps (Just AN example from google!)
P.S. Please don't ban me for a month for 'trying' to assist with grammar
I was always taught that it depends on where the stress is in a word starting with an aspirated (i.e. sounded) h. If the stress is on the first syllable it's 'a' and if it's on a later syllable it's 'an'. So you have
An hotel
A hospital
but I was also told it's not a hard and fast rule and it's not really that important as in modern usage either is acceptable. If a language stops changing it soon dies.
Isambard wrote:The era of the pompous and autocratic teacher has gone!!
No its alive and well under this post titled "Fed up with petty squabbling" . Well I suppose it does qualify because I am fed up with it, it is undeniably petty and it has resulted in even more inane squabbling
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