"Mortified" - FGS it means embarrassed/humiliated

[originallyfromLA]

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

@MrsJackRackham Scott Mills does it intentionally

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

Yes, it’s like ‘free gift’ - if it’s a gift then it’s not being paid for!

Re. uninterested - not interested
Disinterested - impartial
The battle has been lost and they are used interchangeably to mean uninterested.

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

Yes. YES. Thank you! It’s like nails on a chalkboard.

Also, how are we five pages in and nobody’s raised the absolutely rife misuse of ‘everyday’?

In Cornwall, where I live and grew up, it's common parlance to say "where did I put that to?" for any item lost. It irritates DH (from Kent and very RP) to distraction when it slips out of my mouth.

I've seen mortified used as horrified numerous times in news reports relating to carcrash fatalities (BBC).

My MIL uses 'mortified' incorrectly and it drives me insane!

I dislike people using the word unconscious instead of subconcious.
To freudian and psycho dynamic analysts, the subconscious is accessible where the unconscious isnt. My old lecturer was very unhappy if we used subconscious (mind) to mean unconscious (mind).

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

That's really not an everyday word though is it, I can forgive that as most people won't come across it written down it's more like a spelling mistake than using a word wrongly. If it's spoken there's no difference and who in every day chatter uses the word discrete anyway?

I totally agree about mortified and ignorant

Nauseous instead of nauseated. 98% of the time it's used incorrectly. Nauseating.

(Turns out that nauseating is of those words that, if you look at it long enough, starts to look really odd.)

I see “we was” all the time on MN (and it makes me wince), but I don’t recall hearing people say it when I lived in the UK. Is it a regional thing?

There was a thread on here in the last day or too called something like ‘Mortified by my choice of nursery’, which I opened because I thought it might involve the child being a nursery run by a former friend with benefits who knew she liked being spanked in garters, or someone she had thrown up on when drunk or something.

But no, in fact it was a serious thread alleging her baby was being neglected, and the OP clearly thought ‘mortified’ meant ‘appalled’.

Ther was another one a while back, too, where the OP said she’d been mortified to discover someone had died. I hadn’t come across his particular misuse before, and was quite puzzled.

Another one.

Mi baes bein spaded 2day.

No, your bitch/female cat is being spayed. And if it's a dog or male cat, it's being neutered or castrated --although I will accept having his knackers chopped off as a fairly accurate description of the procedure.

It is not having its reproductive organs removed with a garden implement.

Friends from lincolnshire/Midlands area say we was

I come from Stoke where people use ‘ignorant’ to mean ‘rude in an ill-educated or socially-inept way’ (not sure that’s quite nailed it but it’s the best way I can describe it).

I know it’s not the strict definition of ignorant but it’s actually a really useful word used in that way!

I've never heard people in the Midlands say 'we was'

Pre-planned, pre-warned, pre-prepared really get my goat (though that isn't a strictly accurate use of get my goat)

Two pages in and I haven't yet seen ect for etc.

Oooh yes, ect instead of etc, that's another one that had me doubting myself.

@Babyfoal nope - decimate historically meant 'to reduce by a tenth'. It also means to destroy a large proportion of.

Reign/rein- I've seen the former misused so often on MN that I started to doubt myself.

Also -tow the line. It is TOE the line. You're not pulling the line along behind you.

Fuming though- I have become rather fond of the MN version FUMMING

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

Or worse - ano

Enormity means awfulness. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SIZE.

And breathe.

I love some of the word misunderstandings on here. One I was reading yesterday was a poster having electrical problems, and she was checking her 'circus board'. I almost think that is a good name for it.
I see a lot of reference to 'tennants' in rental woes and enquiries. I blame David Tennant for that.
Yes, rein/reign, bored/board, draw/drawer. Also affect and effect used wrongly.
I sadly conclude that I am a pedant.

Macdonalds 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

Ignorant where I am from is used as a term for a rude person. As in 'he completely ignored me in the street. How ignorant is he!'

@ohyesiam

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

Oh god I hate this too!! And people tie themselves up in knots trying to be posh and are saying ‘myself’ ‘yourself’ etc. Often sales people.

I also hate it when people get me and I mixed up eg. ‘Can you forward the paperwork to Bob and I’ 🤬🤬🤬🤬 You wouldn’t say ‘can you forward the paperwork to I’

Rant over, phew!!

It's pig ignorant around these parts. It means more than just rude. It's obnoxiously rude and uncaring about the impact of your behaviour on others. Sort of .