Classic Spelling Trap

[Greynomad]

Channel 7’s crawler journo has fallen for one of the English language’s classic spelling traps.
They are homonyms, which means they sound alike but have different spellings.

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What the journo should have written was “sneak peek”.

[supersparky]

Ray, do you reckon after all our fault finding of the 'on screen crawlers' they were going to actually learn how the English language works. Every day there is some glaring issue or extremely bad example of the use of English grammar.

[pet-els]

Not on Rays watch.

PeterH

[Eddy]

Must admit I had to read twice to pick up

[Keith Morris]

Channel 7’s crawler journo has fallen for one of the English language’s classic spelling traps. 🤔
They are homonyms, which means they sound alike but have different spellings.
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What the journo should have written was “sneak peek”.

"tanks" here--
A Julie Andrews moment----Climb every mountain
Keith.

[homeless]

You must remember most of these journo's English is not their native language .

[T1 Terry]

Maybe there was some obstacle blocking the coming events that require approaching with caution to pass the upper limits, but that was too wordy for the crawler ..... but now we have to consider the use of the word "crawler" for a flowing script that passes across the lower section of the screen .........

T1 Terry

[Greynomad]

You must remember most of these journo's English is not their native language .

Brian,
I reckon that even for some journos born in Oz of Australian parents, English is not their native language!

[Noggins]

This is what happens when the language taught in our schools is more of a "she'll be rite" ( right ) thing than going to the actual teaching of the Aus/ English language.
One thing that really P's me off is the "me and Joe" etc instead of the correct "Joe and I etc"
But when the system started with the phonetic crap all it did was raise a group of numptys that don't know how to use the language correctly, just read past it, and maybe you will understand what the writer means, but instead of getting a dictionary, the system is assuming that something or even anything you imagine will work for the author's meanings.
So we get things like
Breaks on a vehicle.( Brakes ) Last thing you want is something to break when you use the large pedal
Peak ( Peek, take a look at )
need I go on ?????


Ron

[BernieQ2]

I blame the metric system.
Didn't happen before that
Pommies are talking about going back to imperial....
Bernie.