What on earth is SPAG you may be asking? Well, if you are a teacher, you will know the term almost intimately. It stands for ‘spelling, punctuation and grammar’. My family members have, on occasions, disowned me for correcting people’s English. They shake their heads and look terribly embarrassed. Well tough! Because I happen to think that the quality of our language must be protected.
We all have our favourite dislikes but here are some of mine:
- their, there and they’re
- to, two and too
- past and passed
- ‘he must of done’ instead of ‘he must have done’
- even worse ‘I must of drank’ instead of ‘I must have drunk’
- the misplaced apostrophe
- use of US terms like ‘gotten’
There are many more but probably my most hated abomination, which seems to just happen up north, is the past tense of treat. So many people in my part of the world say ‘tret’. It makes me want to take them by the throat and throttle them.
Maybe I have anger issues?
(I checked this blog through 5 times to make sure I didn’t make any SPAG errors.)
If you find one, feel free to send me a virtual throttle!
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