₦airaland Forum

kittykollinxx:
Isreal Adesanya won his UFC match yesterday, asisat scored on her Barcelona debut.. what a good time to be a Yoruba man. name checkers have gone into hiding

Israel.

Peculiarly:
This woman is a definition of a true Nigeria

Nigerian.

Awoo88:
Which chennel

Channel.

And question mark too, to denote a question, okay?

R2bees:
FINALLY THE WHOLE APPLE HAS BEEN EATING.. NOT JUST A BITE.. LOL

Eaten not eating, okay?

shanaka4u:
May be a good number of nairalanders did not watch the debate.in as much as I will not vote,I have never voted and I will never vote in this country, I think prof osibanjo was more specific and realistic than obi who atimes shine away from questions. kudos to them all shaaa.

Sir, I believe the correct term is "shy away".

taiocol:
worst weak of my punting career

Is that why you cannot spell ordinary week correctly?

kenzysmith:
The truth be told daddy freeze is an antiChrist someone who will come out to say Davido sings better than Wizkid someone who spends time listening to circular songs u expect a real Christan to take his hypocritical preachings serious . someone who want to implement is god yenosha to us I refuse to be deceived I stand with Jesus

Sir, it's secular and not circular.

Homeboiy:
Even if he's excommunicated, He controls a multitude of people

So he has nothing to loose.

Lose not loose, take note.

Adakintroy:
OK thanks.

You're welcome.

Adakintroy:
Arsenal game this season had giving me mix thoughts I no lie.

This is by far the most inconsitency performance and most poor have seen arsenal play all round in years. But suprisingly, we have had a good strick of win at the same time.


I hope we continue to pick up all three points as compensations. While praying for our performance to improve.

Sir, I believe the correct word is 'streak'.

Immaculatesnow:
Very senseless tread that will make it to front page
In that case for any one interested in an AdSense account, I have a verified Nigerian AdSense account for sale

Thread not tread.

Mynd44:
It is really weird seeing people such twisted mentalities.

Worse is that he is a Muslim and the Prophet's first wife was well above 40 when the Prophet married her.

I wonder how and where people get this silly believes that marrying a woman or person at a certain age means they won't be good partners. A good person is a good person at whatever age

Silly belief.

vikkeee:
thank you for correcting me

You're welcome.

vikkeee:
politicians are comedians when elections are around the conner.

I think you are the real comedian here with the way you spelt corner.

sarrki:
Am not oweing a dime

God knows

But your grammar is so poor.

And that can only mean that you owe yourself, your parents, and your English teachers a lot.

jerflakes:
@bolded are Redundant words ... Not needed in that sentence

Nice write-up though, but by 360, we mean complete

Thanks for the correction.

I understand what you meant by complete change but you are now being made to understand that making a 360° change is nothing but bringing you back to square one.

SenorFax:
Gotta improve on this and use few for my pigin.

You really need to and it will be most especially good if you will first start by spelling pidgin correctly.

So, here’s the thing about incorrect phrases. They are commonly used, heard, and seldom rectified. You say it incorrectly, in a wrong situation; no one realizes your mistake and hence continues the glorious (not really) journey of your mistaken phrase. Someone uses it again, and then it becomes a commonly used incorrect phrase until someone finally uses the correct one!

Here are 10 phrases that need some serious attention:

1. “I made a 360 degree change”

Take a minute and think about this one. When you make a 360 degree change, you come back to your starting point, which clearly means, you haven’t made a change at all! Just doesn’t make sense. The correct phrase is – I made a 180 degree change!


2. “On your face”

This happens when you are too aggressive after beating someone in a game or when you prove something and make a point. “On your face” is the phrase that quickly falls out of your mouth. Nevertheless, you need to first relax and correct yourself. Because, the correct phrase is – In your face!


3. “By mistakely”

A lot of people use this phrase when they do something wrong unintentionally and later feel sorry about it. Well, they should instead be guilty about what they said. ‘By mistake’ or ‘by accident’ is what they should be saying.


4. “Irregardless”

A lot of us would want to laugh at this one. But, people actually use this and hence awaken the grammar nerds. You can either have ‘irr’ or ‘less’ in a word, not both! Some people honestly need to get their choices sorted. The correct phrase is – regardless.


5. “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming”

This one totally sounds right and hence even grammar nerds fail to correct this one. But, seems like, we’ve been living in a delusional world. The correct way to say this is ‘You’ve got another think coming.’ It comes from an old expression from the 1800s: “If that’s what you think, you’ve got another think coming,” which means, if that’s what you think, you should think again.


6. “Wreck Havoc”

This one has been said, read and written a lot of times. Do you see the mistake? If not, just check the meaning of the word ‘wreck.’ Ah, okay. We’ll reduce your effort. Wreck means to destroy something. You don’t want to say the earthquake destroyed the destruction, do you? The correct phrase is to wreak havoc, which means to cause or inflict something.


7. “Doing good”

Most of us say this. “How are you doing?” “I am doing good.” No, you aren’t saving the city and doing good. We have superman for that! “I am doing well” is what you should be saying.


8. “Less than 140 characters”

Shocked? Well, even Twitter is. You use ‘less than’ when you want to compare something singular and ‘fewer’ when you want to compare multiples of something. The correct phrase is ‘fewer than 140 characters.’


9. “Expresso”

We don’t know who came up with this word, but we definitely don’t know what that person was trying to express. It’s Espresso. There is no word as Expresso, unless, you are that person. Of course.


10. “One in the same”

This is clearly for the ones who couldn’t attend their grammar class. The correct phrase is – One and the same. One in the same is downright criminal.

So, next time someone floats any of these or an otherwise meaningless phrase, it should buzz an alarm to your conscience for immediate damage control!

Know of any other phrase used incorrectly?

You can add to this and enlighten us all.

Thanks.

Courtesy of: http://www.pehlayakshar.org/?q=node/47

360degreess:
I was happy when saraki declared his presidential ambition because I knew by that,the end of saraki's political dynasty is very close..surely he can't win the presidential election even in his dream,secondly he has authomatically loosed his senatorial seat by his current political ambition.... pdp will experience the heaviest defeat of all time in 2019,that of 2015 will be like child's play..
Buhari til 2023,ipob pigs(one above) can hug a transformer if they are nt pleased with that

Automatically lost.

thaoriginator:
wetin be questioned marked?

?

You see that?

Oh, you even used it in your question.

thaoriginator:


Jobless youth everywhere.

Why you no go teach English for one nursery school in your area.

When you ask a question, you have to use a question mark.

adewumiopeyemi:
Good development but they stil harrase one of my friend yesterday..

Just like the way your English is harassing me right now.

Sleekfingers:
It is quiet commendable. They need to retrain those mofos. Do some psychiatric evaluation and dismiss some of them.

I hope this not just for political points o.

Quite not Quiet.

See the difference?

Toks2008:
lol! thanks mr spell checker. But grammar no collect money for bank o.

You may be right.

Unfortunately, some of us are simply knowledge over money.

Toks2008:
Thats very taughtful of you.

Very thoughtful indeed!

inoki247:
when will the Youth Start Following this politicians with Stones.... instead we kip praising dem.

I think it will eventually happen when you learn to spell correctly and stop being a lazy youth.

Kip = 3 letters; wrong spelling.

Keep = 4 letters only; correct spelling.

Intellectual laziness is a very big problem amongst so many of our youths and that's one reason why it is so easy for our politicians to be deceiving the youths.

Tongsman:
. Thanks for the correction

You're welcome.

Tongsman:
what do you mean by TopUp, can you please expantiate...biko

Sir, what exactly are you trying to EXPAND?

I believe the right word is actually expatiate.

not impressed in any way at all.

abeg france and belgium who you think say go win?

i wan stake correct money.

my mind dey tell me say na belgium but the thing wey france do argentina and uruguay dey make me reason am again.

Caring0:
No mind me jawe, typo error, I didn't bother to check what I wrote for errors before clicking submit thanks.

And that reminds me...

If you must be a blogger, a very good blogger that is, you must always learn to check and recheck whatever you must have typed before posting it.

Practice, they say, makes perfect.

Caring0:
Hello guys, I'm thinking of going into blogging out of cheer boredom, since I have nothing doing I just stay at home all day long playing games, I have a desktop and a laptop with a very good smartphone, I'm sooooo bored these days I don't know what to do and I don't like going out, even if I go out to shoprtite to watch movies after the movies are over I feel bored back yo, so I need something to always keep me super busy guys, please advice. Is blogging is a good idea, atleast to while away boredom while still making some money!

Other suggestions are welcomed. I just need something to do online because my gadgets are becoming almost useless to me now since I have noting doing with them other than gaming lol.

If you must be a blogger, a very good blogger that is, then you must watch your grammar and spellings.

Freestainworld:
don't start what you can't finish bro, if its me, can't even marry her again, it shows how selfish and immature she is in thinking. that kind of a girl can even turn you into a house help in the future if paraventually something goes wrong with your income. say no to Gold diggers pretending to love you.

paraventually indeed!

I believe what you wanted to say is peradventure.