"Mortified" - FGS it means embarrassed/humiliated

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

How do we feel about nouns being used as verbs?
Gifting / re-gifted for example?

Can I mention octopi? The plural of octopus is not octopi. Thank you!

Surely it'd be a sedicipus? When my octopus friend and I have coffee we are a sedicipus, especially when our tentacles get tangled up.

'To be fair, at least Tele makes sense as an abbreviated word.'
Some people used to get very upset about television being a mixture of Latin and Greek origins. I had a teacher who told us to use the whole word, not telly. It's all sorts of trouble.

Locally ⬆ should ov (of), could of, would of are very frequently used. I tell DH it is one of the reasons I want to move back home.
There is a shop near here. It has a sign written out in blue brick and built into a red brick surrounding wall.
*XXX Lane Store's in large letters 😠😠
I pass this wall at least 3 times a week. It takes all of willpower to stop myself reversing into it and demolishing it with a loud crash.

Oh “should of” - agree

Also “try and...” rather than “try to” - what is that about?

Wretch / retch has just appeared on another thread. It's up there with phased / fazed and reign / rein as far as I'm concerned.

How do we feel about nouns being used as verbs?
Gifting / re-gifted for example?

I feel very negatively towards the use of the word 'action' as a verb. I'm not sure that it's actually wrong, what with language evolving and all that, but I can only ever hear it in my head in the style of a wanky manager saying 'Isabelle, I'd like you to action that' when 'Isabelle, I'd like you to do that' would do perfectly well.

Someone on our local fb page has just posted about dogs running ‘a mock’

Bought/brought
Wary/weary
Lose/loose
They are not interchangeable! Each has a clear and distinct meaning of its own.

I'm in Ireland and lots of people use ignorant to mean rude. I never thought of it as incorrect. Pig ignorant would be a common expression too. Haitch sounds right to me-aitch sounds posh.

I do have a few extra pounds around my midriff that I'd be happy to cut loose but am not likely to lose them sitting around reading grammar conversations.

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

It has two meanings. You can use it to mean unusually massive.

I love this thread

Just about every example quoted makes my teeth itch. I'm SO relieved to find I'm not the only one.

Enormity does have connotations of size as well as awfulness. It is the extent or scale of an event/situation/task.

I know it's been mentioned but a colleague drives me potty saying "yourself" and "myself" to clients.

What are they teaching at universities these days?

I had no idea enormity was anything other than enormous ness!

Although awful is misused isn't it

Myself and mortified are AWFUL. I also can’t stand when someone says she invited less people to her wedding, or that there were less trees on the property after a neighbour cut them down. It’s FEWER, not less!!!

Fewer is used when referring to individual things that can be counted. Less is used when referring to singular mass nouns. For example, you can have less salt, time, money, honesty or love. You have fewer grains of salt, hours, pounds, lies, relationships, people, or trees.

I know all the mis-users will say they don’t care and it doesn’t matter for them. But you have no idea what opportunities, relationships, conversations, and connections you forgo when you present yourself as uneducated and lacking decent communication skills.

Ouch

I know all the mis-users will say they don’t care and it doesn’t matter for them. But you have no idea what opportunities, relationships, conversations, and connections you forgo when you present yourself as uneducated and lacking decent communication skills.

Exactly this. I love slang, and I do believe that language should and does change over time. But the basic tenets underpinning the language should be respected!

Although 100 years from now I can imagine people saying " can you believe Chester draws used to be "chest of drawers"? How quaint!

My specific pet hate is people who correct "would of" to "would have", because actually what the person is grasping for is "would've", and correcting to "would have" just makes them think you're complaining about the contraction, that it's too informal or whatever.
What I really like about that one is that it makes both the grammar pedants and the people with bad grammar dislike me equally

@hecateh learn/taught is a Glaswegian dialect one. Usually IME accompanied by a slap, or following the attempt and painful failure of a particularly audacious move on a piece of piece of park play equipment/your mammy's good settee: "aye, that'll bloody learn you!"

My pet hate is invite used as a noun instead
of a verb - "We sent the invites" no, you sent the invitations.

Ignorant for rude is used round here but taken to mean "rude in an ill-educated or socially-inept way" as a pp said.

Phased instead of fazed is another pet hate.

Someone on our local fb page has just posted about dogs running ‘a mock’

Now I have a wonderful mental image of dogs gathering together to laugh at the badly chosen collars their owners make them wear.

Two words (that should be one): rest bite.
Used in a sentence: Muriel was relieved when her neighbours went on holiday because it gave her some rest bite from their incessant noise.