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Original poster

It's 'Voila' not walaa!

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Hullobaby · 04/05/2023 14:58

This drives me bonkers! Why the hell do people keep writing walaa when it's voila!

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JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 05/05/2023 14:50

Mydpisgrumpierthanyours · 04/05/2023 20:19

Dp says jesus web and I always picture jesus shooting webs out his hands like spiderman 😂

Mine says Jesus Wet - I have pointed it out but he prefers his way.

mathanxiety · 05/05/2023 16:31

Mitfordian · 04/05/2023 20:23

I was also someone who read loads but didn't hear words said aloud (see posthumously pronounced as after hummus....). I am also originally from the North so might use colloquial words or phrases in certain contexts but i think being able to express yourself clearly - in standard English - is so important. I gently correct my 3 year old's adorable mispronunications because, when the time comes, she needs to be able to spell and read properly and therefore understand the correct pronunciation.

I disagree with calling people thick but I don't agree we shouldn't point out inaccuracies (if we can and nicely). Language may develop but it doesn't develop very quickly - you can't expect to just write phonetically and hope for the best. I also don't understand why people don't look things up if in doubt- you literally have Google at your fingertips. There's something very off putting about thinking people should just be able to work out what you're trying to say.

A good many people don't feel any doubt, so they don't look things up and just fire ahead.

Original poster
Hullobaby · 05/05/2023 18:45

@happyinherts same person!

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happyinherts · 05/05/2023 19:02

@Hullobaby - this was from a Food Company - and this version of walaa actually has three a's at the end!!!!

greyhairnomore · 06/05/2023 14:41

loislovesstewie · 04/05/2023 15:45

Or ' off my own back'. And as is frequently said on mumsnet people who don't know the difference between nickname and diminutive.

The NN thing drives me mad.

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Hullobaby · 06/05/2023 16:32

Oh maybe not then @happyinherts as this was a mum influencers type but not the first time I have seen it unfortunately

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jammydodg · 06/05/2023 16:34

Yes this causes me a similar level of annoyance as when thick people write on social media "on route"

Thesearmsofmine · 06/05/2023 16:35

Hullobaby · 06/05/2023 16:32

Oh maybe not then @happyinherts as this was a mum influencers type but not the first time I have seen it unfortunately

Does she has a child with a name very apt for today?

Thesearmsofmine · 06/05/2023 16:36

have*

Tidsleytiddy · 06/05/2023 16:49

Timshortforthalia · 04/05/2023 18:43

It’s horrible hearing people being called thick and stupid. I used to teach, you build relationships with kids, work so hard and then know that they will face this kind of ridicule and prejudice as adults.

I have had so many advantages that others haven’t - a house full of books, educated, professional parents. A world of cultural capital that I benefit from every single day. Combine that with the fact that I found reading and schoolwork easy - I make very few of the mistakes listed here but that’s not because I am some special higher being, it’s luck.

Yes. It’s being well-read and of a certain generation, I believe

Tidsleytiddy · 06/05/2023 16:52

A click instead of a clique. Heard many times.
Dull as dishwasher…

MeinKraft · 06/05/2023 16:54

Walaa really annoys me too.
I have a friend who talks about the 'head poncho' which makes me laugh

BenCoopersSupportWren · 07/05/2023 12:35

x2boys · 05/05/2023 09:47

Yes restbite annoys me, I see Gawjus,but thought it was written ironically?
Another one I get irrationally annoyed with ( I'm a various Facebook groups for children with disabilities()
is people applying for "Careers allowance " rather than Carers allowance
I thought, it was a typo, but I see it so often.

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My phone resolutely corrects "carer" to "career" (which is annoying because I am a carer for DH so it's a word I have to type a lot) so it probably is a typo more often than not.

Dalekjastninerels · 07/05/2023 18:15

I hate brought for bought!😡

Dalekjastninerels · 07/05/2023 18:18

P.S (as no edit button-why?!)

If someone says I brought it (when they mean they bought it) and I think they brought it and then end up feeling like an idiot when I am not the one using the wrong bloody word! Angry

Rant over!

almostoverthehill · 07/05/2023 18:43

Can’t believe people are so thick! The one that irritates me at the moment and I’ve seen it a lot on here is prolly instead of probably 😬

Reality · 08/05/2023 07:41

Prolly and Gawjuss and the like are done on here on purpose though (usually). Like fumming or fewming. They used to be part of ‘MN speak’ but I think the place has got too big now and people don’t speak the lingo anymore.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 08/05/2023 09:01

@Reality , my younger brother was a voracious reader at a very young age and often mispronounced words he had read and understood from the context, but had never heard spoken.

They included ‘I know it was you, so you needn’t denny it,’ and the family favourite, which we still say decades later, ‘Gribble-ayter’ - (as in The Rock Of Gib……)

TrickyD · 08/05/2023 09:18

Per say.
Often seen on here.

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