Arghh! I've lost me notes!

[Aqualung]

...or, in my case, managed to (somehow) delete the carefully-crafted email draft with all my notes on from Tuesday.

I presume most of you have had this sort of accident at some time or another? Notes in your pint, fallen out of your pocket, eaten by the dog. Or just mysteriously vanished?

Sorry, but I totally rely on memory which works fine until memory management violations start kicking in. I also only drink pints working on the theory that fewer numbers of beers will make it easier to remember what I drank, hmmmmm.

[Quinno]

Is it me just being a bit thick? You'll have to enlighten me FW.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/18/...et-after-veto/

[aleandhearty]

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/18/...et-after-veto/

Cheers for the link. Passed me by at the time.

[trainman]

"correspondence would jeopardize the Prince’s transition to the throne"

Urgghh! So many 'Z's creeping in where there should be 'S's. Drives me potty. My email at work actually amends my spelling to 'Z's, most irritating if I miss one and hit send before editing back to the English spelling.
And don't get me started on the number people now using 'amount' instead of number. Grrr!

[oldboots]

And don't get me started on the number people now using 'amount' instead of number. Grrr!

You've done it now, here's a short list of the latest confusions to drive me potty.

'there', 'their', and 'they're'
'to', 'two' and 'too'
'loose' and 'lose'
'no' and 'know'
and the number of people who are unaware of what 'decimate' actually means, it is not a synonym for 'annihilate' or 'obliterate'.

Anyway on the subject of spell checker atrocities such as changing 'than' to 'then' or either of them to 'that' as well as the US spelling there's this:-

I have a spelling checker,
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks fore my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot see.

Eye ran this poem threw it.
Your sure real glad two no.
Its very polished in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a blessing.
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
and aides me when aye rime.

Each frays comes posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're laks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does not phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too please

[ETA]

And don't get me started...

OK, cat's out of the bag:

complimentary/complementary (Tescos were quite cross when I insisted that some of their medicine was free)
discreet/discrete
disinterested/uninterested
stationery/stationary
on/onto

And while (I am not a fan of the archaic "whilst") I don't necessarily agree with the "z" versus "s" argument, there are someAmericanisms which really should not appear in English or Scottish English: "invite" used as a noun, "practice" used as a verb, "ass" instead of "arse" (all those poor donkeys who keep getting kicked and enduring internal pain).

[dismounts high-horse]