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Forget the off. Overuse of "of" is another one in our house. "The Simpsons is on after the show of the news!" "are we having a dinner of schnitzel? (technically correct but noone talks like that - "are we having schnitzel for dinner?" is more usual) And various other uses of "of" that...

Argh that is the kind of talk my daughter does all the time! We call it politician speak. Generally these kind of sentences have as many superfluous words and double/triple/quadruple negatives as possible. A lot of the time I have to stop, repeat what she says in my head a few times while...

I despair of ever fixing "I writ a note to you!" (she writes me a note on the computer then runs out to tell me she's written me a note). WROTE dammit! WROTE! I love her pronounciation of perdament. As in, perdament texta - the sort that doesn't come off. And then there's the flossifer's...

I pretend deaf when I encounter mumbling (both child and other half do it - other half mumbles constantly, child only mumbles and refuses to look at you when she has something important to say, she is LOUD the rest of the time). They both repeat nice and loud when I say "mumble mumble" back at...

I get letters saying "your child is getting the academic award for her year level" :D Her current teacher almost keeled over in shock when she heard The Child only learnt to read at the end of her first year at school, she thought she would have been reading at 2. Actually it's the...

Droppin yer G's is very common out here in the bush. Yer gotta leave them G's off everythin or it get in th' way of thins. Makes you sound like a right bogan just by losing all your G's. My daughter does it intermittantly, not as much in the new school as the old one. And you lot further...

I love 'ept'. If you are inept, and then get better, are you more ept? Epter? There's ineptitude, is there eptitude?

Doesn't phase me a bit. Unless you do it in the wrong faze of the moon :) I have a small child that uses big words. I'm a walking grammar nazi. My pet peeves in the World of Elf are currently: This is much worser I writ a long letter today I bet you in a race! Before she could read she was...