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[JohnW2]

To be fair, some people actually do such things. calling a socket a plug is a very easy and noticeable example.

Indeed they do, but it's just plain wrong, and therefore probably deserves to be 'corrected', just as would someone who called a spider an "ant". Socket/plug is unlikely to cause confusion (either way around) but switch/socket could - so clarification would usually need to be sought.

Well how does it become a "transformer"? well it transforms electric in to electric out I suppose.

That's the argument that some people use to justify the way in which the word is often being used today. However, turn the clock back 50 years and we 'all knew' exactly what the word transformer meant - and that meaning would not cover many of the other things (which 'transform') the word is used for these days. However, it seems that that particular 'evolution' of language is acceptable, even to some of those who are anti-evolution!

 

[morqthana]

At first quick read-through I've got to 8 (assuming that the capitalisation, presumably 'for emphasis', is not counted as and 'error').

I can foresee scope for potential debate about "... CARER'S form ....", since it is presumably available to all carers, but will only be completed by one carer on any particular occasion.

I decided on balance to not flag that one. It could be correct, or not. We'd need to see how the form itself is worded. It's entirely possible that the apostrophe here is correct but for a form to be completed by one carer to be headed CARERS DETAILS.

 

[morqthana]

Not very professional is it?

Oh, the irony -

In Johns example ...

 

[morqthana]

Such as the usual expression of day and night - people often use the terms day and night to signify night and not night yet in reality a day is 24 hours long and includes night as well.

Like arithmetic is maths

Is it?

Or is arithmetic to spelling and grammar what maths is to literature?

 

[morqthana]

When one orders 'printed things', particularly on-line, (e.g. personalised greetings cards, business cards, or even 'signs', such as house signs etc.) one commonly has to agree to "Ts&Cs" which make it very clear that the firm will print/write/whatever exactly what the customer has specified

Unless they're a cake shop in Northern Ireland.

 

[JohnW2]

@morqthana You've highlighted 9 errors, including the 8 I detected at my first read-through. However, you said 11, so what are the other two?

I decided on balance to not flag that one. It could be correct, or not. We'd need to see how the form itself is worded. It's entirely possible that the apostrophe here is correct but for a form to be completed by one carer to be headed CARERS DETAILS.

Indeed - as I said, there's definitely scope for debate about that one and, as you say, it might depend upon specific details of other wording.

 

[morqthana]

Socket/plug is unlikely to cause confusion (either way around)

Which is the plug and which is the socket?

 

[morqthana]

@morqthana You've highlighted 9 errors, including the 8 I detected at my first read-through. However, you said 11, so what are the other two?

My guess is you didn't spot the missing full stops, 5 & 11?

 

[JohnW2]

My guess is you didn't spot the missing full stops, 5 & 11?

I think you're probably right. I did 'notice them' when I read through, but probably forgot to count them when I went back 'to count'!

 

[JohnW2]

Which is the plug and which is the socket?

Good question. I was brought up with the notion that male always meant plug and female always meant socket, but one's mind can then get a bit confused by, say, panel-mounted male connectors, since intuitively one 'plugs a plug into a socket', not the converse!

 

[morqthana]

Some connectors have both male and female contacts.

 

[pete01]

On the kettle lead we would just say male and female not plug and socket.....well I would anyway...

 

[morqthana]

I think you're probably right. I did 'notice them' when I read through, but probably forgot to count them when I went back 'to count'!

My pre-edit count was 9.

I missed the missing full stops first time through.

 

[JohnW2]

Some connectors have both male and female contacts.

So do some biological beings ... so maybe those connectors are hermaphrodites (both being plug AND socket)?

 

[BS3036]

Some connectors have both male and female contacts.

That might be one of the few times when the name 'plug socket' is a valid one.