"Mortified" - FGS it means embarrassed/humiliated

[originallyfromLA]

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

MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet
Haitch is the accepted Hiberno-Irish pronunciation. You’ve just described a whole country as “thickos”. Now let’s see if we can find a word for that, shall we?

Draws instead of drawers.

Of instead of have as in 'could have'.

We was in the park. No, you were in the park.

You’ve just described a whole country as “thickos”. Now let’s see if we can find a word for that, shall we?

Ignorant?

I have only seen ‘que’ for ‘queue’ on Mumsnet. Makes me think of Manuel in Fawlty Towers.

Could I add pre-warned to pre-booked please?

RubberTreePlant, I swear to God. Awful.

On bought/brought, it pisses me off but I must say in defence of the Black Country contingent of my family that 'brought' is a perfectly valid past participle of 'to buy' in that part of the world.

They also call magazines 'books'. Both of these make me twitch, in truth, but what can you do?

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

I thought this must be a UK thing as I have only heard it on MN on in Bridget Jones.

By that I mean, I thought it was the way everyone in the UK said it. (Yes, I know there are huge variations in the UK. I am guilty of generalizing.)

of
have
I would have brought my grammar book but forgot so I may I see a selection of your grammar books?

I will revert back to ......

Something that gets me mad lately is misuse of the word floor to describe an event which took place outside, i.e. "He was knocked to the floor" or "She was found on the floor". There is no floor outside, it's the ground. I frequently shout at newpapers and the TV.

And don't get me started on misuse of the apostrophe, even in letters from schools.

Using ignorant when they mean rude!

I like this, it implies that the reason for rudeness is ignorance of the correct way to behave. Which is true. ( often wilful ignorance ).

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.

Then how do you explain my iPad always correcting the word "Thursday" to "Ishtar"?

I’ve come across ignorant meaning rude as a use in Lancashire, some ‘incorrect ‘ usages are often regional colloquialisms.

It can be used to indicate somebody who is rude because ignorant is somebody who lacks awareness of knowledge so if they are rude they are lacking awareness of acceptable social behaviour. See also pedantic

And while we’re at it hence means consequently, so “ why “ does not need to be added.

See also, "reason why".

The one that winds me up is when people use discrete when they mean discreet.

Also the rein/reign thing.

The floor instead of ground thing irritates me so much that I once started a Mumsnet thread about it

Although I did once get torn to shreds here for using the term 'affronted' to mean embarrassed. I know that's not the correct, dictionary definition for it, but it's a colloquialism, and where I live it is only ever used to mean embarrassed, usually in the sentence 'I was clean affronted!'

Defiantly is definitely a clue in Line of Duty

It’s definately

Definitely was misspelled ‘definately’ in LoD.

”hence because” Oh no no no - that is what I would call ignorant....the ignorant that relates to lack of knowledge with a big dollop of stupid!

I hear people misuse mortified fairly regularly irl. Agree it seems to be confused with horrified.

The one I only see on here is 'of which'. It really sets my teeth on edge. I can't think of any real examples now, but things like 'he cut a slice of cake of which he gave to me' its so bizarre and clunky sounding (and makes no sense)

YESSSSSSSSSSSS

Ffs. It's.

How about 'I no' instead of 'I know' - hate that one.

Borrow/lend

Scratch/itch

Revert back ....

Lay/lie - If someone says 'I am going to lay there' I would love to ask 'how many eggs'??