"Mortified" - FGS it means embarrassed/humiliated

[originallyfromLA]

And not desperately upset as most of MN seem to think!

It's pronounced haitch in ROI though.
I haven't seen any mortified misuse on here, I'm always the last to the party...

Pre-booked annoys me because all booking is done in advance. Why can't you just say booked?

'Can I also add that “Myself” is a reflexive pronoun and not an odd substitute for “me”. Thank I feel better now'

Isn't it thanks or thank you?

Can I whinge about "aggravate" in your thread please OP?

People insist on using it to mean "annoy" . What if really means is "exacerbate"!

Thank you

The one that irritates me is ‘defiantly’ when they mean ‘definitely’ . Arrrgh!

To be fair that is usually an iPhone autocorrect issue, I have had it happen to me a fair few times and I certainly know the difference. It’s frequent enough that I think twice about typing the D word on here now.

I don't think we will win this battle. See also:

Nonplussed
Ambivalent
Enormity
Infer/Imply
Cue/Queue/Que

Can I also add that you do not ALWAYS say hsaansnsn and I..... sometimes it it hsaansnsn and me!!!! Arghhhh drives me mad!!!

How about literally?

As in my head literally exploded or I literally died.

I love grammar pedants... and share your loathing for all the above.

hsaansnsn I once spent an hour explaining that to my boss and he could not understand it. He was a copy-writer.

Nonplussed means surprised and not sure how to act, not unimpressed.

Cue/Queue/Que

Yes!

Also :- Faze/Phase, and Rein/Reign

"Work colleague" has become far too widespread. It's tautology!

Someone on here once used it thinking it was a synonym for 'bereaved' or similar: I think they were talking about parents who'd lost a child as being 'mortified'. Jesus wept.

Bought and brought are two different words.
See also because and cause.

@DarlingNikita

Here, here to all of these!

Can I add "firstly"?

I dislike people using the word unconscious instead of subconcious. Unless they are doing things in their sleep that is. I'm not mortified though.

And the phrase is 'seeing as...' not 'seen as...' .

The one that really annoys me is "my DC is ASD." This is purely because it is grammatically incorrect. A person can not be ASD anymore than they can be asthma or diabetes.

I realize that people have different opinions and ideas about the language around disability and long term medical conditions. Everyone has the right to use whatever terms and words they wish to describe themselves. I just want them to use correct grammar when they do it.

The one that irritates me is ‘defiantly’ when they mean ‘definitely’

To be fair that is usually an iPhone autocorrect issue
That definitely only happens if you are spelling it wrong.

Many, many years ago my teacher told me I should be mortified for talking in line. I looked it up the a dictionary as I didn't know what it meant. I couldn't understand why she thought talking warranted me contracting gangrene.

Literally is so often misused it barely warrants surprise any more.

I went on a date with a really gorgeous (English) bloke who used "haitch" - could never see him again

Oh, and Lend/Borrow. No wonder people get into financial difficulties if they cannot understand the difference between these two!

Defiantly is definitely a clue in Line of Duty

Also purposely and purposefully