A question for our beloved "grammar nazis"

[WolfEyes]

I like t'ain't because, well, is that even a word really? No idea, no caring if'n't'ain't.

Well... T'aint really isn't but you can find tain't if you google it. Same word. I put the apostrophe in the wrong place. I like it better that way.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Urban Dictionary: Taint

I think I was in the Navy too long, that I even knew to look there.
*begs forgiveness*

 

[Pixieplumb]

T'is! But actually, granny also thought the word lunch was vulgar and that no well bred woman would put on her gloves outside. Also, you only use the word home in the context of 'at home' on invitations, and 'going home' which presumably was what she did after she had visited someone else who was 'at home' to visitors. She was a total Victorian, but lovely with it. Just, you know, barking mad.

 

[Adeon Writer]

TV is an Initialism because you spell out the letters when you say it, (Like FBI, IRC, AOL, ATM, BBC, USA)

Something is only an acronym when you actually pronounce it (NASA, NATO, PIN)

If you want to break your brain, ask yourself which one K9 is.

 

[Rose Karuna]

Initially I read your post as:
A question for our beloved "grandma nazis"

So I was expecting grandma's that looked like nazis.

which scared me - seriously.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

TV is an Initialism because you spell out the letters when you say it, (Like FBI, IRC, AOL, ATM, BBC, USA)

Something is only an acronym when you actually pronounce it (NASA, NATO, PIN)

If you want to break your brain, ask yourself which one K9 is.

OK, what about "interpol" or "norad"?

 

[Free]

Initially I read your post as:
A question for our beloved "grandma nazis"

So I was expecting grandma's that looked like nazis.

It's amazing how much they look like grandmas.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

OK, what about "interpol" or "norad"?

Interpol is a portmanteau. Norad is a bit of a hot mess.

 

[Govi]