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From "The independent": Apparently spelling and proofing weren't part of the curriculum at that writer's school either.

Their SMT consists of Depute Head Teachers as well

"Our supported learning centre win prestigious award" A centre is singular, not plural... but I agree with all the above

Oh wow... lots of inline styles, class names as descriptive as 'Button1', 'Button2' etc., iframes, heaps of unnecessary JS, no caching, no compression, not responsive... It's pretty much a "who's who" of bad design practices!

I think grammatical errors are the least of their worries I suspect there was a competition held in S1 to design the school website (S1 = Scots equiv to Year 8 ) though can't check cos they've disabled right click

A few problems? A hit counter. Text in images (including poorly scaled up and pixellated text). Crap 1990s Flash style gradients on buttons (with two-for-the-price of one hover images). Word documents linked directly from the front page. Transparent drop down menus you can't actually read. Most damning of all: Allow cumnock.e-ayr.sch.uk to run "Java"? I've not even found any poor grammar, I can't see the text through the blood welling up in my eyes.

This has a few problems. The grammar may not be the worst of them Home

Did they also complain about the body double in E10? Mme LeMarchand and I didn't even suspect that it was composited. But then, we weren't peering intently at NEKKID LADY!!!

Someone my OH works with was complaining that you didn't actually see it - I find that deeply disturbing; the noise was almost too much for me!

Lol! Would love to show that to Mme LeMarchand, but she wouldn't watch that scene and doesn't want to know what happened. (Though it's fairly obvious).

Spoilers for episode 9, though that was nearly two weeks ago now... Linking so it doesn't spoil anything because posts in groups don't let me add images as an attachment or shrink their size down

After this week's episode I move to have the motion to adopt Stannis as King of the Pedantic Geeks struck. Poor Shireen!

Sadly, I have seen this often with younger teachers. We had a young NQT who did very well and after a couple of years moved on to head of English at a local school - her spelling and grammar was atrocious!

I was part of a panel interviewing prospective Assistant Principals yesterday. The application we had from an English teacher was the worst written and spelled... she wasn't invited to interview.

I spotted the GoT pedantry last week and almost punched the air. The fewer/less thing is one of my pet hates and I nearly always say "fewer", even if under my breath, when I hear "less" being misused. Well done Stannis.

I suppose it is just that certain things upset me more than others. ANYTHING that has been professionally printed, and presumably therefore paid for, which is grammatically incorrect drives me completely bonkers. I notice that "bored of" instead of "bored with" is now becoming acceptable usage in "quality" newspapers and other reporting. Bill Bryson did say that language evolves and I have no issue with that - it is just plain laziness that annoys me

@losOjos Tap in

@machin05 - I think you're the one who is mistaken in this instance; the Daily Mail is not an example of professional print

@witch . Maybe you should be in the "only slightly pedantic geek" group? . Less/fewer bugs me, but congratulations to Sainsbury's who (at least in our local branch) have a "10 items or fewer" till. (No congratulations to the idiots who seemingly can't count higher than 10).

Less / fewer really bugs me still. Especially when you see it in professional print:

I'm like that with the use of "who/whom", and maybe a bit relaxed over Less/Fewer TBH

I must admit that with this particular expression, I have got to the point of "meh, does it really matter?"

I picked the Head of my governor school up on this the other day... I didn't mean to; it just happened ... He is a History teacher, so he should know!

Stannis Baratheon Is Very Particular About Less v. Fewer Word Usage - Television - Boston.com

The other things that annoys me about this article is that it allows for now development of the use of language, especially where the frames of reference (e.g. long term partnerships rather than marriage) now exist. Access: to access rather than to gain access is used in a number of technical specifications, including RFCs. If language is adapted due to specific need (e.g. technical growth), and with specific definitions, then surely there is no problem? Adultery: the frame of reference used (marriage) needs to be updated. Choice: The stipulation that a choice is only ever made from 2 options is slightly faulty or that it is always singular. There can be a range of options and there may be several choices to be made as a result. A choice of starter, a choice of main course, a choice of pudding and a choice of the implement to wield when getting annoyed. Collide / Collision: All bodies are in motion. The premise that a tree is not moving fails to take into account the earth's orbit, the expansion model of the universe, etc. If he wants to be pedantic then let's get back to basic physics ... the interesting moot court' discussions during A level physics lessons on such things and the several 100 press ups I had to do during RMP training where I would say 'accident' instead of 'collision' when dealing with road traffic scenarios may have also swayed my opinion on this. Disabled: This is a pet hate of mine from days working with children with disabilities. People have impairments. They are impaired. Society denotes their disabilities in a broad range of categories. They are not 'the disabled'. This shorthand reference to a group of people is abhorrent in all areas. Language is part of how society interacts with one another. Again, it just shows how poor his frames of reference are. Livid: This refers to a change of colour due to a blow of shock, often used to describe the discolouration of contusions, which will range from black, blue, red, brow, orange, yellow and even white. Where he refers to the use metaphorically, this is incorrect. It refers to how a blow (mental or physical) might cause discolourations, including the flushing of face (reddening) or draining of colour (paling). The responses to this list on some of the language lists has been amusing ... most agree that the intent is worthy, but the execution lacks a basic understanding of any form of language growth or adaptation for specific needs. Others just agree that being a grammar/language nazi is one way the Daily Fail have of shipping copy.