Be fair to me! I am not one of those who normally picks on typos. Typos happen. It's errors of English that I correct. Although I have despaired of Rinso every remembering to write 'could have' instead of 'could of'.

I will try, I will try. Sometimes it's difficult to resist, though.

I am exacting my Scorpionic revenge. As Brad once said to Ivan, "Don't mess with me again!"

Grace, you realize that your revenge does little beyond improving my English, right?

Only in the case of English corrections, not in the case of typos. It also demonstrates what I normally refrain from doing. The moral of the story is, "Be nice to Buzzfloyd, or else she will totally overreact." :roll:

Yeah, Explain to me why that is wrong again?

It destroys the very fabric of the English language, that's what's wrong with it!

Hi Buzzfloyd

Begin ing to feel I am walking around the garden at unseen uni with boards here and borders there. They call this surfing heck it's more like drowning to me and can't even say its with style.

Who said we can't fit a square peg in a round hole just takes a bit of time and a sander.

Tabatha

It's simply incorrect. Did anyone notice my ironic typo in the sentences Rinso posted above?

Edit to clarify: The mistake is made because 'of' sounds like 'have', or the more common abbreviation, ''ve'. But it's no more correct than replacing any other word with a soundalike. Saying "I invoiced your aunt for tea" is not the same as saying "I invited your aunt for tea", even though they sound similar, although there is an added humour value, since invoicing your aunt does at least have an actual meaning, even though it's the wrong one. However, 'could of' carries no meaning, humorous or otherwise. It's a malapropism, but with none of the humour and only the error.

Tabatha, hello! I wasn't sure if you'd made it over here. I just sent you a PM on the other board to make sure you knew we'd moved.

Thank's for whatever a pm is, just seen a little area that I could click on and here I was needed outside assistance to work out how to do a new board but I will get better.

Only second day so really still at nappy stage incase of odd accident.

Tabatha

Was it that you missed 'time' off the end of every in the last sentance Grace, and if so what rewards do I get for spotting it?

Actually, I mistyped 'ever' as 'every'; the fingers go onto automatic pilot, and make me look very silly.

I spotted it, but I'm very slow, and working.

I was wondering why you kept correcting Roman in the other threads, I thought he was going to have a go at you sooner or later, but he kept taking it all with good grace and saying thank you and crap. I was very confused.

Now I look silly for getting the spot wrong...er...I mean I knew it was what you said really but I was trying to delve deeper into it like doctors do when you've really only got piles. I was trying to discover a deeper hidden secret involving an alien conspiracy or maybe mountain people.

Best word ever... and thoroughly underused, say I. We should make the effort to use the word malapropism more often... Although now that I think about it, I can't think of a sentence that would use the word correctly....

"The misuse of the udder was a dire malapropism" just doesn't sound right, somehow...