It's PAID! Not PAYED! PAID! (1 Viewer)

[Citizen87645]

As a college freshman I took a class called Grammar for Journalists. It was one of a few weeding out courses for students who wanted to be in the School of Journalism. It amazed me how sharply divided the class of about 400 was on the subject. There were people who either got it or didn't and it seemed no amount of instruction seemed to help the people who didn't. You could probably do brain research on the reasons...

That said, I know there are excellent writers who are horrible at spelling and grammar, just like there are films that are technically perfect but lacking in soul. If it came down to having to choose, I would choose having the soul over the technical chops. I find I have more of the latter :frowning:

 

[Paul_Tesh]

I definately agree with everyone. Grammer is also important besides spelling.

Two biggest pet peeves of mine.. heheh.

 

[Jake Gove]

Drives me nuts when someone puts "your" instead of "you're"! Also when people say, for especially, "eck-specially", or they say, for often, "off-ten".

 

[Chuck Mullen]

How about the made up word, "irregardless"?

 

[Leila Dougan]

Hey hey now! I pronounce "often" that way, but it is an acceptable pronunciation. It's just not as common.

 

[Jeff Gatie]

Oh no! Here we go again. A spelling/grammer thread devolves into a pronunciation thread and we get flooded by Canadians telling us all "aboot" how they don't say "aboot".

I'll be leaving this one alone for awhile, I've got to go "pahk my cah".

 

[Jake Gove]

Sorry Leila, but you are saying it wrong!

 

[Leila Dougan]

Oh well, at least I KNOW it's different (not wrong, ha!). I guess being aware is half the battle?

 

[MarkHastings]

These threads always remind me of Joey (from Friends) doing the whole "Supposeably" routine.

Joey: "Supposably. Supposably. Did they go to the zoo? Supposably."

The best part is, it is actually a word:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Supposably

 

[Kenneth]

Well as long as you don't pronounce "Peanuts" the way the Minnesota folks were on the Daily Show the other day. That "t" sound is kind of important to that word

My significant other is Thai and one time she asked me, "Do you want some fooght?". I was pretty sure it wasn't some kinky new request so I responded "Food?". She said, "No, fooght". We went round the merry go round a couple of time before I realized she was saying, "Do you want some Fruit?". Those "r"'s can be tough sometimes

Kenneth

 

[Kevin M]

Yes, as other have mentioned, Not only according to dictionary.com but also Websters and every other dictionary I looked in.

...iregarless it isn't useed in any of the sentance exampless that any of the dictionbaries that's I lokked inn offfer, they's always used "Paid" inn they're exampless.

 

[MarkHastings]

"Payed" is correct, but "Paid" is the more commonly used...as far as the most uncommon used spelling of the word, well that would be "Paiyed".

 

[alan halvorson]

My English teachers at all levels would have had a fit if I used "PAYED" in place of "PAID", so that's the way it has to be.

 

[Keith Mickunas]

Rediculous annoys the hell out of me. It seems like over the last couple of years I have seen the use of that spread more and more. Defanitely, or however that one is misspelled, bugs me also.

Of course, there are a few I don't get right. Is it satelite or satellite or are both wrong? I can never remember.

The supposedly episode of Friends made me acutely aware of that one. My mom is real bad about it. It used to never bother me until I saw that episode.

So what's the deal with often? Do some people not pronounce the t or something? How is Leila different?

 

[JeremySt]

I have duel subs in my HT! There making to much base.

 

[Leila Dougan]

Hehe, well maybe you're like me?

The most common prounciation is OFF-EN, with the T silent. I pronounce it OFF-TEN, obviously saying the T.

If you go here: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=often you can listen to the different ways it can be said.

 

[Joe Szott]

This thread is making me tirred, I need to lye down.

 

[MarcVH]

One I see from a lot of people who otherwise seem to know better (and, coincidentally enough, is in this very forum in another thread) is the mixing up of "principal" and "principle."

 

[MarkHastings]

I know this is corny, but it always helped me...

Only a principal can be your pal.



now if I only had a way to distinguish between 'stationery' and 'stationary' :frowning:

 

[Drew Bethel]

I agree with a lot written above.

I also cringe when people use "then" instead of "than"!