Grammar Discussions

[Deleted member 29185]

Isn't it Eh Bro??

So we're in agreement that it's spelt eh and not 'ey?

 

[Buzzard]

So we're in agreement that it's spelt eh and not 'ey?

That's how it's spelt ay

 

[Deleted member 29185]

That's how it's spelt ay

Now I'm really confused.......ay, eh or 'ey?

 

[serfty]

Now I'm really confused.......ay, eh or 'ey?

Doesn't matter - is a sound.

You can textually represent it as you like.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Doesn't matter - is a sound.

You can textually represent it as you like.

Wouldn't that advice apply to all spoken words then?

 

[get me outta here]

Oh goody, semantics. The philosophy of whether ay, eh or 'ey is a word or a sound.

 

[serfty]

Wouldn't that advice apply to all spoken words then?

I would suggest that in general, correct grammar relates to word combinations - not a single word and certainly not a sound ...

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Oh goody, semantics. The philosophy of whether ay, eh or 'ey is a word or a sound.

Isn't grammar all semantics? I've got not idea if eh is a word, but I do hear it an awful lot. I think ay is a word, as in meaning yes or agreed, uttered often by the Scotts and seafarers and I would have thought 'ey might be a shortened version of hey.

 

[medhead]

Isn't grammar all semantics? I've got not idea if eh is a word, but I do hear it an awful lot. I think ay is a word, as in meaning yes or agreed, uttered often by the Scotts and seafarers and I would have thought 'ey might be a shortened version of hey.

Not just the Scotts, I think there may be Duncans, Alastairs, Andrews, and a few more who use ay to indicate agreement

 

[JohnK]

Doesn't matter - is a sound.

You can textually represent it as you like.

Hay?

 

[JohnM]

This may have been covered, and it is not so much grammar as a language-use quirk.

Why is that journalists almost always add 'time' - as in '...a week's time.' A week is time, so it is a tautology and a redundancy to add the word 'time' to such phrases. It looks strange in print and it sounds strange when read on the news (the ABC is bad for it).

 

[JessicaTam]

This may have been covered, and it is not so much grammar as a language-use quirk.

Why is that journalists almost always add 'time' - as in '...a week's time.' A week is time, so it is a tautology and a redundancy to add the word 'time' to such phrases. It looks strange in print and it sounds strange when read on the news (the ABC is bad for it).

Good point. It is not something I have noticed but I will look out for it, next.

 

[cove]

Can a person go missing? Is missing somewhere?

 

[Shelf]

Can a person go missing? Is missing somewhere?

Who's on first?

 

[Julesmac]

Not just the Scotts, I think there may be Duncans, Alastairs, Andrews, and a few more who use ay to indicate agreement

Hmm wouldn't that be "aye"

 

[Hvr]

Not just the Scotts, I think there may be Duncans, Alastairs, Andrews, and a few more who use ay to indicate agreement

Some of understand and appreciate this post.

 

[medhead]

This may have been covered, and it is not so much grammar as a language-use quirk.

Why is that journalists almost always add 'time' - as in '...a week's time.' A week is time, so it is a tautology and a redundancy to add the word 'time' to such phrases. It looks strange in print and it sounds strange when read on the news (the ABC is bad for it).

It's the same as Rabbits Warren saying "loose head and feed". I can't imagine any team that has the feed putting the ball into the tight head.

Hmm wouldn't that be "aye"

Agree. I was just copying the post I quoted.

 

[Katie]

We are moving office soon, so I bundled up my grammar pack posters to take with me. I discovered the Apostrophe poster is gone.
The Literally one had already literally disappeared.

 

[SeatBackForward]

The Literally one had already literally disappeared.

And in its place is a handwritten note "Irony" ?

 

[Warks]

I once heard someone on radio ask why someone who escapes from prison is an 'escapee' when the 'ee' ending is normally used for the 'victim' grammatically. By that rule the prison is the 'escapee' and the prisoner is an 'escaper' (or 'escapor'?)