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Govey and the new 11+

16 goldengirl

How to pronounce "ough"

17 jeni

"must have" "at all" and "yeh - no"

89 Mamie

Today

14 Barrow

Words

14 janthea

Where did 'per' come from....

11 Anagram

Malapropisms

96 syberia

The word is....

67 Mamie

Double...Redouble...

12 Annobel

Morphing

19 pompa

Fellow pedants may like this ...

24 Anagram

Words have meanings

12 Ariadne

The value of good grammar / punctuation

9 Anagram

Why 'outside of'?

62 Wheniwasyourage

Let’s have a rant about behaviour and appearance

70 gracesmum

Somebody can't add up!

8 Greatnan

Wince time!

31 gracesmum

Myself and........

7 bagitha

Sometimes the message is more important than the words

18 Annobel

Big bigger biggest

36 gracesmum

After that thread.......

42 gracesmum

Grammar

46 absentgrana

Just heard

42 glammanana

Changes to the printed word

19 yogagran

A relationship expert becomes exasperated!

19 Elegran

'has' or 'have'

15 Ariadne

There, their, where, were.....

10 Jacey

Walking into things

10 Elegran

know its petty but

30 Gally

Using "me" as a subject in a sentence

15 Notsogrand

Very unique.....

6 Ariadne

pronouncing the word LAND

24 syberia

teachers bad grammer!

68 Mamie

Robert (or should that be Rabbie?) Burns

23 Annobel

Let's not ask a Grandad

50 glammanana

Death of the adverb?

6 Anne58

Member's or members' ?

16 raggygranny

Quotation help

5 grannyactivist

Let's start a blitz on bad grammar - nationwide

269 Baggy

The use of 'are' when it should be 'is.

7 goldengirl

Positive pedantry

11 Faye

Nice

12 greenmossgiel

Wrong end of the stick...

5 Divawithattitude

queuing

18 Joan

Innit

5 carboncareful