Hey, I didn’t mean to be a thread killer. And a lot of what I read above was humerus...oops that’s a bone. I meant the other word. I don’t think anyone was making fun of anyone else or anyone in particular. Just expressing my opinion..as we all are.

Carry on.

The Cook’s Kitchen, nothing wrong with y’all’s. :) After being away from the south for years, loving being able to use y’all again with abandon. How else to use the possessive form. :))

It is troublesome to me that, even though I know the correct spelling of the word that I want to use, and am even thinking the correct spelling, I will frequently be surprised to see that I have written/typed the homonym. I have to proof read everything carefully to catch those errors. This dates from a viral illness 11 years ago that was tentatively diagnosed as West Nile, and is one of two symptoms that has persisted.

However, I think most instances of that error that we see really comes from lack of exposure to and instruction in correct spelling early on.

My big pet peeve is the lack of use of the correct tense which seems to be increasingly prevalent in our country. .

Posts like the one from The Cook's Kitchen above remind me of the Ad-Libs game!

Haha, Cook's Kitchen wins the prize for best post! Love it!

To Jan, the "I/me" point was brought up previously in the thread (I know because I wrote it!) It's my hot button, especially using "I" as the objective pronoun. Hypercorrection at its worst.

And to Snaggy, sorry if you're offended, but the entire post is offending SOMEONE, not the least of whom are those of us who really care about language and communication.

As a lifelong Chicagoan I have to admit that "y'all" takes some getting used to, especially if I'm by myself. If I'm alone and someone says "how y'all doing?" I'm tempted to check if someone's standing behind me. I'm one person, how can I be "all"? (And when addressing groups, I've heard people say "all y'all." That cracks me up!)

OTOH, I totally get that "you guys" grates on some people, especially when there are women in the group. I grew up saying "hi you guys!" and others grew up saying "hi y'all!", and habits can be hard to break!

I have a friend who was struggling with her recovery after a stroke at age 35. One of the tasks she was trying to complete was setting up a hotmail account. However, when instructed to type "hotmail", she typed "hotmale".....I think you can imagine the type of website that might have come up for her....and it wasn't email! She panicked trying to close the site before anyone saw it and then ended up clicking on something that opened up a picture....

Funny story at a time when humour was needed during her recovery.

Hilarious M V

HAHAHAHA!!!! Grate storey MV!

Who sez splling doeznt mattr????

I'm surprised that nobody has yet raised the affect (to influence) / effect (a result) conundrum! Or does everyone know the RAVEN mnemonic - Remember Affect is a Verb and Effect is a Noun?

@chicagoans, I think when people are saying "how y'all doing" they are asking about all your folks too. How's your mama, your daddy, your son, your daughter's dog...

I could be wrong of course having only passed through the south (unless you count disneyworld which I do not).

I know in MN it's common to ask "how are you guys" to a single person and the implication is "how is everyone you've ever known?" :-D

Oh and on that note "guys/you guys" is definitely the gender-neutral plural of choice!

Most of my pet peeves are covered here... irregardless and "I could care less" are at the top. Don't forget ALLOT when not used as a form of allotment, but as in "I saw allot of great tile yesterday".

And yes, y'all is singular.

All y'all is plural :)

I love all y'all. There's nothing quite like it when you're getting after rambunctious kids.

"ALL Y'ALL! OUT OF MY KITCHEN WITH THAT BASKETBALL!!"

Eta: poetry was unintentional but certainly enhances the *effect* (for you edenchild)!

Edit 2: I just realized that my first sentence could be taken as a declaration of my adoration for everyone here. That was also unintended but if you needed to hear a message of love today, take it with my warmest regards! I do deeply respect and appreciate this community :) and if you need a massage of love, that I cannot help you with :-D

LOL, Lindsey!

Actually, edenchild, "effect" can also be a verb, meaning "to bring about," as in "to effect a change." :)

Most common in NY Greetings growing up were:

1. "How you doin?" answer "good how bout you/yourself?"

or

2. "hey, what it is?" answer " what it look like"

or

3."How'r you?" answer "see answer #1"

or

4."whats up?" answer " not much, whats up with you"

Or the most common answer to all 4 above is " fuggedaboutit!"

Haha, and now Brooklyn is THE place to live in NY!

South of the 49th. My school aged child was surprised to be told there were no ‘washrooms’ in a store we went into, even took her school teacher a second to figure it out!

Diana Biers, yes I do know that effect can sometimes be a verb but then it doesn't fit into the mnemonic! It's mostly used by bureaucrats that "effect change" (now that DOES sounds pretentious). Affect is also sometimes used as a noun, mostly in the psychiatric field - as in "the patient showed no affect towards her action" - but most people have trouble with the everyday usages of these two words.

A recent comment on another thread :-)

You can take out and replace the boarder tile and most likely the boarder floor tile. Although it will still be a boarder accent with a different tile.
Only difficult part would be taking the tiles off the wall without destroying the wall. #time&patients

@ the cooks kitchen unfortunately giving advice to gut the bathroom and start changing pluming is absurd. We have no clue what was used under the tile let alone a crack isolation membrane which I know you have no clue what that even is lol #facepalm better luck next time

Are border tiles more difficult to remove than boarders? My understanding is that boarders pay by the week but they may have squatter's rights :-)

And of course pluming probably refers to birds shedding their feathers rather than pipes that run water and waste ;-)

And I just don't have the patients to read any more illiterate posts :-).

Diana, I couldn't agree with you more, I moved out of there about 30 years ago and when I retire I have plans to move back, I mean I'm only over 2 bridges (Verrazano and Outerbridge crossing crossing), 45 min and I'm there and I'm there all the time because most of my friends still there and Brooklyn is just one of those places that you can't live without.

Poor Cook's Kitchen though. It is incredibly annoying to be chastised by someone with poor writing skills.

Helen, you crack me up!

Thank you Helen for cracking me up too. I started to be afraid we were heading into the toilet here - you got us back on track.

Life is too hard to get too riled up about people joking around about spelling rrors on the internets!

@patrice. Don’t you mean I got you back on tract.

AAAAAHHHAHAHAHAHA......Helen....I see what you did there! Very clever. Well done! Right back where we started.

In my old age, I've been feeling entitled. Just the other day, I grabbed the arm of a lovely young girl, late twenties, who happened to be ( unfortunately for her ) in the next seat. SHE WAS TWIRLING HER HAIR. It went on for a half hour, and even more fascinating ? I started counting her "like" word on a napkin. Hash marks.............5, 10, 15.....

Back to me: I take her arm mid hair twirl.

"You must cut that "twirling thing" , Hon. You will never ever meet the hottie of your dreams. You must stop saying "like". Look at this, I have been counting ! All you will ever get with these habits are that really cute jerk over there; the one with no job and his hat on backwards."

For a second she was stunned. Then she laughed, and said: "Did my mom hire you? Are you UNDER COVER?"

oh jan,,,bless you. do you know how many times I want to, like, shake, these, like, young people, when they like speak like that? My son is guilty of it. I tell him the same thing.

Did you answer with, "your mother sounds fabulous. you should listen to her". ?

I was gardening outside and this teen? set herself up by a park bench with her phone. You could see she had fabulous long hair all freshly cleaned, styled like a brunette my lil pony. She turned so her locks would move in the breeze like a model with a wind machine and then proceded to make faces (faces I would be embarassed to make in public honestly) and arrange herself in poses for I would guess 15, 20, 30 min, afterwards I wanted to smack her upside the head but I try to not act like a psycho. lol.

Excuse me? Who may I ask is the psycho here? I encountered a similar selfie snapper one day outside my local watering hole.

I realize love thyself is not without merit. Perhaps limit it to your bedroom. The one I encountered that summer day was so self absorbed, she never noticed ME standing there, with my mouth open.

Folks I live with teens.

My eldest will be in the middle of tearfully telling us why we're the worst parents in the world and she will stop, snap a selfie of her stricken face, then go back to sobbingly relating her woes.

We just laugh, not much else we can do. Heartless us...

@ ILoveRed ...* Dont feel too bad. Just because you can’t spell doesn’t mean you are not brilliant.* I don't feel bad ..just pissed off with the spelling police ! :)

I personally always wanted to be a veterinarian. I wasn't able to make it. I don't waste any time being angry at people who did make it. Just food for thought.

From Urban Dictionary:

track house

The Trap and the crack house combined in perfect union

Sam said Velma stay outta the track house... Your to high to make that deal!!!!

I can't play the piano, can't sing, can only dance slow. Who cares? Actually, I do the only thing I am good at : ) save cleaning the house. Good at that too lol

Thought I would revive a goodie with an image of a track builder:

Mark, be careful. Santa is watching. You might end up with a little Cole in your stocking:

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for reviving this thread. I've been laughing my *** off for the past 30 minutes.

Here are a few of my hot buttons:

#1 is the use of the word 'bespoke'. It was mentioned up thread. It's pretentious IMO.

#2 track instead of tract. And the thread starter Duck vs Duct :)

#3 worse vs worst. What happened to 'It's the worst _______' ? Another error that grates like nails on a chalkboard along with "passed vs past". Have the schools abandoned teaching tenses?

And to settle a discussion of what is the plural of you? Why, it's "y'all" of course!

Believe me, there are more examples. I'll just stop now because there are plenty of examples above:)

Bespoke drives me NUTS. For the love of heaven , "custom" is just fine, and you won't sound like an arrogant fill in the blank ! Word "overreach" is as bad as too much perfume : (

OMG we'd better beware of the posters on Jan's discussion "Bad Design that Makes you Utter, Why." We are all elitists and meanies for holding Houzz posters to the standards of proper English.

Just as with food, moderation works. Sounding like a twelve year old at fifty isn't great. I don't care If "prolly" was added to the dictionary. A few more letters and you have probably.

Whatever habits you form, become either good or bad habit. I should PROBABLY give up cursing in the car. I probably won't : )

I am going to learn y'all how to make allot of comments.

Bespoke doesn't bother me in its original environment, just don't bring it across the pond

I don't know you should check in with Batman's counterpart

Bespoke | bəˈspōk | An insect talked

• Your = belongs to you
• You're = you are
• There = a place
• Their = belongs to them
• They're = they are

This thread needs to demolished like an old abandoned Houzz...yes I know how house is spelled...

It’s spelled Hoazz.

At least that’s how my autocorrect insists it needs to be spelled - and I’m done fighting with it over a word that doesn’t exist. Stupid name anyway.

To expand a bit...

• Your = belongs to you [Your attitude about grammar leaves a lot to be desired]
• You're = you are [You're driving Mark Bischak crazy with the multiple gas chambers in this plan]
• There = a place [If you put the dryer there, it will be difficult to vent to the outside]
• Their = belongs to them [Their new house has the kitchen of my dreams]
• They're = they are [I'm betting that they're going to love your suggestions]
• It's = it is [It's guaranteed that if you post your floor plan here, you will get some good suggestions as well as a lot of criticism]
• Its = belongs to it [They just had a baby, but I don't know its name or gender]