Please get it right!!!

[laser110]

I have read this so many times - people refer to the island of St.John as St.Johns. There is no "S"! St. Johns is the capital of Antigua, or New Foundland. It is not a US Virgin Island.

 

Sorry but it's just a sticking point for me.

 

Scott

[Aplmac]

You're asking the geographically-illiterate to get accurate with their spelling? :D

 

Lots of luck! :D

These folks can't even pronounce Caribbean right! :cool:

 

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[Betsy's Mom]

Drives me nuts. It is Magen's Bay not Megan's. Oh well!:)

B.

[taxmantoo]

I have read this so many times - people refer to the island of St.John as St.Johns. There is no "S"! St. Johns is the capital of Antigua, or New Foundland. It is not a US Virgin Island.

Scott

 

"Physician, heal thyself".... it is spelled Newfoundland ...and its capital is spelled St. John's...

[Crystalcat]

To me, spelling is the least of my concerns. Pronounciation is a bigger deal to locals (I was firmly corrected by a native Londoner that the correct pronounciation of "Southwark" is "Suthuck". :rolleyes: Also, while at a train station in Dover booking tickets to London, I had another tourist inquire about things to see and do during her 3 day visit to London. She advised me that she wanted to set aside 1 day for a day trip to Ireland :eek:.

[Aplmac]

To me, spelling is the least of my concerns.

On a message board forum where we use written language to communicate?

 

 

What if I started spelling Dog like C.A.T.?

 

I know what I mean, don't you? :D

 

............................................

 

Use the Preview button to see what you gonna look like, to others.

 

Your intellect will be judged(consciously or subconsciously)

by those who read your stuff now and twenty years from now.

You are judged by what you say and how you write.

 

Use the Preview button, please -you have all the time in the world.

 

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[laser110]

taxmantoo- Sorry about that. The space was just a case of me typing faster than I think.

 

 

Betsy's Mom- That drives me nuts too. It's Magen's Bay, named after the Magen family, but most tourists don't know that.

 

 

Scott

[GinDon]

I still can't get the hang of pronouncing "cay" as "key" (as in Princess Cay, Half Moon Cay). It looks like CAY, and no matter that my brain is thinking "key", it comes out of my mouth as "cay" every time!

[Aplmac]

I still can't get the hang of pronouncing "cay" as "key" (as in Princess Cay, Half Moon Cay).

It looks like CAY, and no matter that my brain is thinking "key",

it comes out of my mouth as "cay" every time!

Ah the wonders of the English language! :D

 

 

So tell us about the problems you have with Dough(think bread)

and Bough(branch of a tree) :D

 

.....................................

 

On American TV lately, I've been hearing about the Golf of Mexico

-how did that happen?

Seems all Uh utterances are being transformed into Oh utterances.

 

Has Uh become un-cool for some reason :confused:

Listen carefully and you'll hear it -all the time now.

 

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[richtersl]

Ah the wonders of the English language! :D

 

 

So tell us about the problems you have with Dough(think bread)

and Bough(branch of a tree) :D

 

.....................................

 

On American TV lately, I've been hearing about the Golf of Mexico

-how did that happen?

Seems all Uh utterances are being transformed into Oh utterances.

 

Has Uh become un-cool for some reason :confused:

Listen carefully and you'll hear it -all the time now.

 

.

 

My personal favorite -- how often do you hear something this?

There's plenty of things for you to do.

At that point I usually repeat the sentence to the person but without the contraction.

There is plenty of things for you to do.

:confused:

After giving me a funny look, most folks get it and realize it should be:

There are plenty of things for you to do.

 

I have a lot of fun with that one. :p

 

I completely agree with the St. John vs. St. John's thing. At times I've been so tempted to say, "there's no Trunk Bay on St. John's" or "I'm not sure you can take a ferry from St. Thomas to St. John's"....LOL. But it is really easy to mix up the names.

[taxmantoo]

"I'm not sure you can take a ferry from St. Thomas to St. John's"....LOL. But it is really easy to mix up the names.

 

I could of told you. All you had to do was axe...

[Aplmac]

I could of told you. All you had to do was axe...

Speaking of axe...(that's the norm here in Barbados!)..

the word Where is completely deleted from the Barbadian street-dialect on the island, let me warn you!

 

When you hear them axein Whuh-part something is...Whuh-Part is what's now used for Where, OK?

 

Recently, it's got worse...they've abbreviated it down to Part, now.

 

So: Part de car? = Where is the car? :eek:

 

Good luck with your communication on the islands, where each has its own peculiarities.

If you need to find out something...just axe. :D

[Mary loves to travel]

...and I don't think there's an apostrohe in "Magens"....at least, according to the Magens Bay Authority :)

http://www.magensbayauthority.com/

 

 

cheers,

Mary

[richtersl]

I could of told you. All you had to do was axe...

Yep. Axe me no question's and I'll tell you no lie's. :p

[Rochmom]

Slightly off topic, but:

 

Sign in front of my daughters' school: "Middle School Award's Ceremony, June 10th".

 

Really? If the school can't do it right, how can it possibly teach it correctly????

[kcparrothead]

I have read this so many times - people refer to the island of St.John as St.Johns. There is no "S"! St. Johns is the capital of Antigua, or New Foundland. It is not a US Virgin Island.

 

Sorry but it's just a sticking point for me.

 

Scott

 

THANK YOU - It drives me nuts, too!!!

[richtersl]

Slightly off topic, but:

 

Sign in front of my daughters' school: "Middle School Award's Ceremony, June 10th".

 

Really? If the school can't do it right, how can it possibly teach it correctly????

 

Man, that's pretty bad. :(

[nicki_momof3]

WOW - Relax

[Yes We Can]

How about this one.

 

1) Wats wrong wid de man.

 

2) What is wrong with the man.

 

 

The first one is how they speaks in the caribbean.

 

The second one is how they speak in america or something like that:confused:

[gtcruzer]

spelling is the least of my concerns

amen!

[Aplmac]

WOW - Relax

Accuracy of language (and thus communication) is already 'relaxed'

to the point where half of America no longer knows the difference

between whare where were and we're

not to mention thier, their, there, thare, they're. :D

 

No one even knows what the commas in between represent

because they were never taught it, in the first place?

or they weren't paying attenshin...:cool:

 

 

I see horrible spelling on these boards!

Absolutely appalling!

and I wonder about the intellect behind such abuse of the language.

 

It's not funny any more.

It's far too relaxed, and in 100 yrs. we won't be able to communicate reliably...not via written language

- it'll all be gobbledy gook!

 

.

[dahkota]

Yep. Axe me no question's and I'll tell you no lie's. :p

 

Actually, it is:

Axe me no questions I be tellin' you no lies.

;)

[Maycreek44]

wow..lighten up!