The shame! I have an ungrammatical pedometer.

[MsHighwater]

I bought a talking pedometer from Kleeneze.

When I press the button it tells me, in an accent I can't quite pin down, "You've took [number] steps".

Should I send it back?

[MrsBadger]

No

endeavour to teach it the correct form

[asicsgirl]

Is it from Oop Narth?

[snowleopard]

Sounds more like a London cabbie so me.

"So I've gone dahn there and I've told 'er... "you've took 12,487 steps."

Keep it; one day it might find a home in a pedantry museum.

[snowleopard]

OMG quotation mark shame!
I meant of course:
"So I've gone dahn there and I've told 'er... 'you've took 12,487 steps.' "

[PeaGreene]

From a company called Kleeneze what do you expect?

[EnterobiusVermicularis]

Should've got a pedantometer.

[Sanguine]

Just what I was going to suggest, e. vermicularis

I'd really love one of those... You clip it on your belt and it warns you about bad grammar situations.

[Sanguine]

oh. formatting scuppered by space.

[JaneHH]

Would it also count how many times you or others around you had used the wrong past tense that day? Would have to get set up for UK / US usage...

[WanderingTrolley]

lol at the pedantometer

I would fear for my life wearing it around teenagers - they speak in txt, you know. I would expect it to short fuse and send several million volts of annoyance through me.

[JaneHH]

Or you could set them up to bleep when other pedantometer-wearers come into range so you can start up conversations in supermarkets about the signs saying "potato's" and "carrot's" and know you won't be greeted by a blank stare

[asicsgirl]

Speed dating for pedants!