Is this even a word?
Cannot goes to Can't... surely not Cannt?
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Is this even a word?
Cannot goes to Can't... surely not Cannt?
where did you see it?
cannot? with an o missed out?
My guess is a typo
How about willn't rather than won't then?
Won't = will not?
Won't looks more like "wo not" to me :p
I think it should be willn't.
Craig.
Pretty sure that's not a word however...Quote:
Originally Posted by streetster
It may be:
Canadian Association of Nephrology Nurses and Technologists :woowoo:
Won't = Would not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Craig321
isnt that wouldn't?
Ahh the irony....Quote:
Originally Posted by greektony
a guy i used to live with @ uni, he always uses 'cannt' instead of 'cant' in his msn name, just makes him look like a berk. not sure if thats what they teach them at school in kent or whether he's just stupid :)
maybe he's just a cannt?
I'll get my coat
:PQuote:
Originally Posted by redsky009
No, obviously he just cannt spell :lol:
Hey tigerboyce,
Any chance you can drop the size down on that enormous sig piccie?
Let me know if you cannt or willn't? :P
That's confused me now ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by greektony
Stupid English.
It's like the word "till", taken from "until", the extra "l" never made any sense to me. So is won't "will not", it must be actually. "I won't sleep with directhex" - "I will not sleep with directhex". Yup, fits.
i would, he is teh sh3x god.
on the subject of annoying english spelling mistakes, my accounting lecturer always spells words ending in ly with ley, like quickley. Its terminally annoying!
Kill the lecturer and sacrifice them unto Odin, honestly, its the only way some people learn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve B
I think you'll find that "till" is not from "until".Quote:
Originally Posted by Kezzer
"till" is a shop till, used to hold money and make us laugh on those police video shows as some muppet struggles to open one.
The word you want is " 'til ", which is the abbreviation of until... so chop off the 'un' and stick an apostrophe before the 'til'.
eg. "The till is broken so you'll have to wait 'til it's fixed before I can take any money"
Amen :bowdown:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick
CD's bugs the crap out of me, as does any wrongly used apostrophe - it does not belong to the CD, idiot;
More then is another one but I think that's more of an Americanism;
There's more, but I'd get banned.
'Addicting' that REALLY winds me up...
Even more wound up now FireFox's spell checker hasn't picked up on it, meaning someone has decided it is a word... even though FireFox, according to it's own spell-checker, isn't a word!
Unfortunately that's in the OED:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick
Hence a'ddicting ppl. a. = ADDICTIVE a.
1939 [see ADDICTIVE a.]. 1965 Listener 23 Sept. 465/1 Lysergic acid..is not addicting. 1970 Nature 22 Aug. 773/2 The use of methadone, a synthetic drug that is addicting..is on the increase in New York. 1984 A. HAILEY Strong Medicine IV. xvi. 397 It was not addicting. Incredibly, adverse reports about its effect were almost nil.
Hey guys.
That's a constructive bit of lurking right there....
Hey, why can't I thank people in this thread?
Is it just me?
yes.
"More then anything."
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
A lot of bad grammar annoys me intensely, even more so when I catch myself doing it.
Shamelessly stolen from Bash.org
"Capitalisation is the difference between - I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse and I had to help my uncle jack off a horse"
Eats, Shoots and Leaves is a great book btw
Can only thank people after Tiggerai's post.....cannt thank people before....why cannt I? Why can not I? Why can't I not?
because they're older posts... I guess they dont have the right database flag or something equally as technical.
I can thank Dareos ?
My first post... I have 2 on this page.
you're welcome :)
Man this thread is awesome.
no Can Not, YOU are awesome...
can someone put this thing out of its misery?
I thought that "can not" was bad usage. You are supposed to say 'cannot' or "can't".
Their our many grammatical mistake's that irritate me. What do they teach people in school these days?
Another really irritating thing. My brother in law often replaces the word 'thank' with the word 'spank'. So he will say "Spank you very much", or "Spanks a lot". I feel like kicking his stupid face in.
:lol:
Why thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadduckUK
No offense, but where the hell do people get this kind of idea from? "can't" is a contraction of TWO WORDS. You DO NOT see people writing "DONOT" and contracting it as "DON'T". "can not" is 2 seperate words. "cannot" is a grammatically accepted grammatical error.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brucelles
Anyways, if anyone cares, I go by the s\n Can Not on every forum ever, and I found this thread by typing my s\n into google with a few other words.
they are 2 separate words ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Can Not
pedants of the world unite :P
Well actually....linkQuote:
Originally Posted by Nick
till is also perfectly acceptable.
The quotes denote a phrase though, so the phrase "can not" is two separate words.Quote:
Originally Posted by BUFF
Yes it's badly worded, it should be "can not" consists of two separate words, but saying a phrase are two separate words is less correct than is.
You put those obvious mistakes in on purpose did not you? Do I win a prize for spotting them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brucelles
:laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brucelles
If you do, can you film it and put it up on youtube?
Speaking of two words, I seem to notice the rise of an apparent new contraction of aswell (joining the words as and well, for those of you wondering) appearing on forums.
I know at least one person who pronounces as well as aswell too.
I didn't fight in three world wars, etc.
Bunch of aswells.
[goes back to writing vitriolic, hate-filled letters to the Daily Mail.]
It's been said time and again, but the one that really gets my goat is people mistaking They're for Their..
you don't say "can not is separate words" though - you say "can not are separate words" (or more likely "can & not are separate words").Quote:
Originally Posted by chicken
please let this thread die :)
it is a word in yorkshre :) eg thi cannt do that :juggle: