Spelling Bee

Are you referring to the time when someone turned me into a bee kite? I'd rather not talk about that. Luckily I got free but the hook hole still hurts.

I saw the crafty edit of the last post you made in this topic.

I know all Mark. If you really want to know add me to MSN.

Seeing as he was obviously taking the mick I thought I would not waste my time correcting him.

Who says I went away? I do have a life outside of this forum you know.

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Thankyou.

I'm alright thankyou, I've never really liked it there.

I'm not Annoying, he is a good friend of mine but tends to spend more time over on OTN.

I find it rather insulting that you believe Mr Fryer could match up to my level of intelligence.

You should know better. No, however with your spelling and grammar I'd watch out.

Does anyone actually need honey though?

I know all, his signature means shut your f**king face uncle f**ker. Mr Murphy, surely you are clever enough to realise that my many legs make typing easy? Edit; Mae dy fam yn llyfu cociau mul.

How am I supposed to know that? I am not into trials riding. I am simply paid by the internet to improve spelling on various forums.

Where did that come from? Seeing as Shoe is not Bentino Ross and I am a bee.

Media hype. Why do you all hate me?

Im American.

No, just adding that delightful emoticon.

Amateur mistakes

Sadly not, however some say I'm the bee's knees

I would bee delighted.

You are indeed very much mistaken. This is more of a grammatical question, and is therefore out of my remit, but I will prove you wrong anyway, just for bringing my good name into disrepute. Everyone's spelling mistakes is the correct grammar. The word "everyone" is singular, despite the fact that it applies to more than one person, in the same way that you have a group of people. One group, many people. The way to tell if a noun in English is singular is to see if it has the letter "s" at the end. For example: Car = Singular, Cars = Plural. There are exceptions of course (The word sheep can be either singular or plural), but as a rule for beginners such as yourself, look for the letter "s". Everyone's spelling mistakes can be rephrased as the spelling mistakes of everyone. Notice that in the second case, the word everyone is not plural. What you are getting confused with is when the noun is plural, E.g. In the word "Cats". In this case, the spelling mistakes of the cats would be written as the cats' spelling mistakes. I hope you can appreciate the difference. The exception to this is proper nouns which end in the letter s. In this case you have a choice, as both variations can be used. E.g. James' biscuits is correct, but also James's biscuits may be used. Now get out there and use your newfound knowledge of the English language! EDIT: At Shoe - I once had many more posts, and could change such things, but the ravages of time and post deletions have moved to decimate my post count.

I don't think you understand how painful it is for me to see spelling mistakes. It reminds me of when that ugly ginger kid pulled my wings off. Luckily I had a friend who was a vet so I got fixed up, but it was a very unpleasant experience. But that's a story for another day. You can call me a pedant if you like, I can't help it. I wasn't bio-engineered by NASA to let mistakes such as "alot" slide. The English language is a beautiful thing that we can be proud of. Evolution of the language is one thing - Producing a nation of illiterate clowns writing incomprehensible drivel is another altogether. Would the world be a better place if textisms and misplaced apostrophes ruled? No, of course not. You need a healthy balance, but I would argue that mistakes are mistakes. You can argue that it's evolution all you want for words like "podcast", but some things are not new or clever, they're just wrong. So perhaps I'm just beeing annoying. However, that notwithstanding, you must remember that I am semi-retired now. No-one appreciates the work I've been doing around here, so I've moved onto pastures new, and taken up golf. I still browse the forum, so when a thread such as this one appears with my name in the title, I stick my head in. In my pre-retirement days, I did not correct everyone's spellings (that would take too long). Instead, I corrected the most outrageously bad posts, as you suggest I should. In other words I'm saying that in this thread (where I am paying full attention), little mistakes will get corrected when they otherwise wouldn't. But then again, it doesn't hurt to brush up on the fundamentals, does it JT!?

BAM! Here I am! Get rid of those damn apostrophes! Is it a contraction? Is it denoting ownership? No! So there's no need for the apostrophe, is there?

Thanks for the compliment! Buzz buzz...