[Misc] Woman/Women

[seagully]

Is it just me who has noticed this annoying phenomenon of people using the plural 'women' to mean the singular 'woman'? Seems to crop up on social media all the time and have noticed it on here a few times. Example sentence from Facebook today: "Happy birthday to my Mum, she has gone through so much and is such an inspirational women"

Surely this isn't difficult. Wo-MAN: singular, Wo-MEN: plural

Am I just being an oversensitive Grammar/spelling pedant?

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

The demise of the English language. Sad but true.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Chaka Khan still gets it right

 

[BNthree]

Probably due to predictive text or autocorrect.

 

[seagully]

Probably due to predictive text or autocorrect.

Hadn't thought of that. Seems to happen too often for it to be that though I reckon

 

[studio150]

Predictive text an idiots best friend

 

[happypig]

"Facebook"

 

[Mackenzie]

I love women. Hate Germans though.....

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

The demise of the English language. Sad but true.

Yep and in the above example 'mum' is capitalised, which you'd only do if 'Mum' started the sentence. Bloody thickos.

 

[Notters]

I love women. Hate Germans though.....

Yep and in the above example 'mum' is capitalised, which you'd only do if 'Mum' started the sentence. Bloody thickos.

Or if you removed "my".

 

[GT49er]

Yep and in the above example 'mum' is capitalised, which you'd only do if 'Mum' started the sentence. Bloody thickos.

You should also capitalise it if addressing your mother - "Dear Mum", for instance, not "Dear mum" - and should also be capitalised if used in the first person, as in "Love from Mum".

 

[Surf's Up]

Haven'y noticed this myself, and swirly the correct spelling is wimmin

 

[Surf's Up]

****ing predictive text:

Haven't noticed this myself, and shirley the correct spelling is wimmin

 

[McTavish]

Predictive text an idiots best friend

idiot's

 

[Goldstone1976]

Predictive text an idiots best friend

Indeed. I've heard it can also play havoc with one's punctuation.

 

[Buzzer]

Predictive text an idiots best friend

Funnily enough, the chap who invented predictive text died yesterday. His funfair will be hello on Sundial.

 

[Denis]

My pet hate is people writing shirley instead of surely!

 

[Drebin]

My pet hate is people writing shirley instead of surely!

No idea where that ever came from.

 

[Lower West Stander]

My pet hate is people writing shirley instead of surely!

Surely you can’t be serious?


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[DataPoint]

My pet hate is people writing shirley instead of surely!

Mine is - not leaving a space after a punctuation mark.