Recruiting for a job and I'm struck by the ineptitude of graduate CVs.

[PSRB]

I was taught it 30-something years ago. It certainly works - much like the method p describes for remembering the 'You and I/You and me thing.

The thing that people who just think I'm a grammar nazi don't get is that, once you learn these things, it actually hurts your soul when you hear them misused. If I hear someone say amount when they mean number, describe a company as a plural or say less when they mean fewer, it's like nails down a blackboard for me.

Tesco and Tescos, does my head in.
Look at the bloody sign, does it say 'Tescos'....no, it bloody doesn't!!

[Burney]

Tesco and Tescos, does my head in.
Look at the bloody sign, does it say 'Tescos'....no, it bloody doesn't!!

I would put people who say 'mischiev-ee-ous' rather than 'mischievous' in camps until they learn to stop doing it.

I mean there is literally no justification for adding the extra syllable. Why do they do this?

[Peter]

I would put people who say 'mischiev-ee-ous' rather than 'mischievous' in camps until they learn to stop doing it.

I mean there is literally no justification for adding the extra syllable. Why do they do this?

Project (pronounced as oh) does my head in. There is a guy at work who says it all the time.

[PSRB]

Project (pronounced as oh) does my head in. There is a guy at work who says it all the time.

Is it Shed-ule or Sked-ule? I think the former.

[Burney]

Is it Shed-ule or Sked-ule? I think the former.

Always the former unless you’re a foul American.

[PSRB]

Always the former unless you’re a foul American.

and lets not even start on 'Herbal'

[Burney]

and lets not even start on 'Herbal'

It is very strange, that. Most US spellings were changed by Noah Webster in order to remove the French influence, but when it comes to food, Americans insist on French pronunciations like ‘’erbs’ and ‘fil-ay’ for fillet even when they’re plainly wrong.

[Peter]

Is it Shed-ule or Sked-ule? I think the former.

Definitely shed. Sked sounds revolting.