"Mortified" - FGS it means embarrassed/humiliated

[originallyfromLA]

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

Enormity means awfulness. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SIZE

You've componded your error by shouting it, of course it be used in a correct way to do with size.

His = belonging to him
He's = he is

They aren't interchangeable. You wouldn't say "she's" when you mean "belonging to her", after all.

Also, "reach out" does not mean "contact" or "talk to", and is incredibly wanky.

There seems to be an awful lot of confusion between bear and bare, e.g. people saying they can't bare someone. I'm tempted to ask why they want to take clothes off the person in question anyway.

An yes, the McDonalds lover on the cinema thread, who was convinced that 'non-plussed' means something akin to 'not bothered'.

I know somebody who starts almost every conversation with ‘Evidently....’

I have no idea why. Very strange.

Yes! Mortified does not mean horrified! Glad I'm not the only one who gets irritated by its constant misusage on Mumsnet.

‘Misuse’ is correct over ‘misusage’ there, surely?

Yes I understand it to mean, so embarrassed normal functioning breaks down! so paralysed with humiliation!

Never heard it used to mean horrified!?

I find myself, somewhat disproportionately, irked whenever I see "different to" and "different than" used instead of "different from".

I once accidentally sent an email at work complaining about colleague X, to X herself instead of to Y! I was definitely mortified!

Another one that seems to cause a lot of confusion is brakes and breaks. I get a really strange mental picture when someone talks about breaking when they're driving.

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

Rather unlikely, given that chester draws is a pronunciation used only by those who speak with a certain type of accent. I have only come across this on mn. I would have had no idea what it was meant to be if it hadn't been explained on here.

Exactly - 'Chester drawers' doesn't even make any sense. Who the hell is Chester?!

Surely people would just say 'drawers'. In fact, they do.

I agree with all of these! I’ve found my people...

Found my people!!

Used in a sentence: Muriel was relieved when her neighbours went on holiday because it gave her some rest bite from their incessant noise.

or should it be 'respite'?

I quite like mistakes that make sense, iyswim. Respite is a bite sized rest.

On a thread about misheard sayings once someone quoted a bad night’s sleep as being a ‘wrestler’s night’ which also makes sense in context / imagery.

Kerb / curb

Oh no, it's not a pronunciation error, it's a spelling error - this sort of thing is all over facebook...

@LadyOfTheCanyon - it's a spelling error due to the way people pronounce it. Chester draws sounds nothing like chest of drawers in my accent so nobody with my accent would make that spelling mistake.

@YemenRoadYemen - Surely people would just say 'drawers'. In fact, they do.

It's called a dressing table around here (Ireland).

Enormity does not have anything to do with size and all the people saying it does are just as guilty of not knowing their vocabulary as the various others mentioned. Enormity means awful, horrendous, indescribably bad.

If you want to refer to size you can say enormousness. If you use enormity you just look ignorant.

Enormity does not have anything to do with size

Do you want to tell the dictionary they are wrong Eluph or shall i? I didn't say it meant enormous, I very specifically said it was to do with size and if you check you'll see that dictionaries include that meaning, eg

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/enormity

Posted too soon,

If you refer to the enormity of a task you are referring to its size, it doesn't have to be an awful job

TheRedBarrows Yes, I can see the logic. 'Wrestler's night' is wonderful, I might start using that.

The chester draws thing - it's not just a different way of pronouncing the term, it's a thing people are selling.
Look here on Ebay www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=chester+draws&_sacat=114397
And here on Gumtree www.gumtree.com/search?q=chester+draws&search_location=

@SaskiaRembrandt - they are selling chester draws because they pronounce it that way and don't know how it should be spelt. They are spelling it phonetically for them.

Nobody where I live would spell it like that as it is not pronounced that way in my accent. I say it more as chest ah drawers but I know it should be of not ah so would spell it correctly.