It's "the worsT", not "the worse"

Yes, that crap has always driven me up the wall. The widespread resistance to learning about grammar is quite stunning, with every possible argument dragged in to defend ‘anything goes’ prose.
The most distressing of them is the accusation of class prejudice, or perhaps worse still, when Americans hurl ‘Racist! Colonialist!’ at one. (Hard to argue re the latter as it's all so far from familiar, but surely one might mention Hiberno-English with equal justification, and cite two or three Irish Nobel literary laureates!)

But the point I wanted to make is about the resistance to rote learning, or indeed anything where basic rules are stressed. Outrage is a common reaction to this idea.
Objectors haven’t the same animus against instructions for setting up complicated gaming gizmos, the games themselves, or driving a car according to the Highway Code, etc etc.
I reckon that given a working brain, you can learn a hell of a lot if you just agree to do it. Harrumph!
(Why yes! I AM 103)

I agree! What a fabulously flexible language to inherit; we (most of us) are very fortunate to have been born into it.

Tbf Tony Blair is a huge dick in so many ways

What rubbish! A Niggard or niggardly person does not relate in ANY way to a racial slur used against black people. I'll agree it isn't in massively common usage these days but it's not archaic either nor us it offensive - except maybe to Scrooge.

Hallelujah!

Amen to that.

Oh gosh - my poor sister moved jobs and was in a very nasty office culture infected with inverse snobbery. Her mistake was to use a word her boss didn’t know during a presentation…he tried to humiliate her by sneering and saying the word didn’t exist. It happened years ago so unfortunately I can’t remember the word, but I do remember it wasn’t THAT unusual.

And a friend, in her first job as a retail manager, fell foul of her boss when she used the word “elipse”. He didn’t know what an elipse was and after she explained a frosty silence fell and things were never the same again. She left asap.

I’m lucky - I’ve rarely encountered this kind of attitude at work but I know it happens.

They do not read books. They only read online, usually social media (like mumsnet) where editing is treated as pedantic. Nothing is corrected so anything incorrect just gets repeated and fixed into common usage.

And eTcetera, not Iksetra when you say it.

There, their, they're OP, it'll be alright. (!) 😬😅

Hope that's maid you feel better haha 😄

Seriously though, I absolutely agree, although I'm quite pedantic as I am an editor/journalist by trade so get narked at typos, spelling mistakes etc.

The worst one I read yesterday was from my deputy editor line manager, who wrote per say in his reply to my email! 😬

You can't say 'pretty good'. The phrase is 'pretty well'.

We don't live in the 18th century.

Read today on Mumsnet: "Carry on as you where". Were and where seem to have become interchangeable on here.

Also frequently see "we was" instead of "we were".

This is the same thing as when people are now asked "how are you?" the answer is so often "I'm good thanks".

Yes, you may be very well-behaved or talented at something, but the answer should be " I'm well thanks" or "very well thanks". It infuriates me.

It’s to DD’s greatest annoyance that I ask her to repeat what she said correctly this time, when she responds ‘I’m good’ when asked ‘how are you today?’ 😀

I once saw a sign in a shop window advertising a "glass bowel" for sale!

Just read a MN thread about fitted sheets. Someone mentioned that M&S ones have a "discrete" label to indicate which is the short side.

Although I did say upthread that my OH struggles to pronounce some words correctly, he also just says things wrong, he says 'stye' instead of 'stile', 'oh theres a stye up ahead'

He says Kway instead of Quay

It really annoys me.

I really love that!

Someone I know used to say “strow ” for straw. I’m fairly aware of regional accents but I’d never come across this pronunciation.

It does seem weird!

Yeah, because you're being an arse.

"I'm good" is an initially American and now very common British expression.

Language changes across generations. This is it changing.

There is no logical reason why your use of the language is "correct" and your daughter's use is "incorrect".

There is no authority deciding you are right and she is wrong and we should stop pretending there is. All we have is practice and observation.

Genuinely/generally winds me right up. So many people say generally when they mean genuinely now, and I've noticed my 8 year old has started doing it. Training her out of that asap!

😆

American English 😂

No, there’s English and then there’s mistakes.

I know you reckon you're being droll and sophisticated, but this is pretty awful British exceptionalism. It's a Farage view of language.