Two things people routinely get slightly wrong on Mumsnet that set your teeth on edge and which you would ban....

[CurlewKate]

Mine are "nickname" when you mean "shortening" and "double-barrelled" when you mean "hyphenated"

Yes it does!

Affect and effect. Especially when people use them interchangeably. If you're going to be wrong, at least be consistent!

Can MNHQ explain to me how my post broke ANY talk guidelines please?!?!

I'd read my own paragraph back to myself before I started criticising other people's SpaG tbf.

Correction - no it doesn't. I can't read properly tonight!

When the OP makes a typo and the thread descends into terrible jokes while the content of the OPs post is completely ignored. 99% of the jokes are not funny.

It's another think coming: ie You may need to revise your opinion (think) about that!

how overpaying a mortgage saves thousands in interest when the OP has said they're 2 years into a 10 year fix with an interest rate of 1.5%

Surely if you overpay during the fix, when you come out of the fix you owe less which could be very relevant to the interest due for the rest of the term?! Overpaying is about saving money over the lifetime of the mortgage not the period of the fix - it works by making you have less capital to repay over the (rest of) the same term or you can shorten the term. Both of these mean paying less interest. Highly relevant now that the next fix is likely to be at 6% or more! Those people who overpaid when they could, specifically because the interest was low at the time, are going to be quids in now.

Sorry haven't RTFT

Has anyone mentioned that some people have dyslexia or brain fog or English as a second language etc and that people should be aware that they're not purposely being triggered by written words on the internet? 😂

The early settlers took "gotten" with them to America. Then over time, in Britain, the participle was modified and generally shortened to the one syllable "got", bringing it in line with other one syllable past participles.
American English kept it.

So, arguably, "gotten" is far more traditional and you'd think twatty pedants who are pretty ignorant about language would prefer it, wouldn't you?

No.
But I'd say it takes a special kind of person to find those 3 things worthy of hilarity.

@MagratsDanglyCharms21 using a pronoun after the verb in place of “to [pronoun]” later in the sentence is really common and has been for a long time (at least it was everywhere I lived while growing up). Eg “pass me that book”, “give him a biscuit”, “I’ll write you a letter”. I don’t see why “recommend me a film” is any different

Posters using iPhone when they mean phone unless of course you actually know the make of phone that the pp has and know that's the device they are posting from

😄😂

@WhenIWasAFieldMyself well I said it because I suffer from one and the emoji laughing was at it being bloody words on the Internet

Ect.

So what kind of surname(s?!!) do Helena Bonham Carter and Andrew Lloyd Webber have?

I cannot stand all the D-crap, ESPECIALLY when being used to explain why the D-someone isn't Dear or Darling. DH cheated. DM is a narc. Just say my husband, my mother, or whatever.
I especially despise DDog. Just write dog.
Much prefer the Reddit m35 f36 style.

Curb and kerb are both fine re pavement edge.

I love gotten.

HTH.

@Rubycoola

Calling the Mail, The Daily Fail.

I call the Daily Mail the 'Völkischer Beobachter' and the Daily Express 'Der Stürmer'. Is that all right?

You should not say 'my DS who's in year 6' OR 'my thirteen year old DS' on MN. You say DS (13) - not to be confused with DS13 which is your 13th son.

If you put the money that you would be overpaying into a savings account paying more than the 1.5% mortgage interest (very easy to do now), at the end of the fix you’ll be able to pay off more of the outstanding mortgage.

Yep, makes me cringe every time

People criticising other people's spelling and grammar.

Willful ignorance that people from different places may use a different version of English and that that doesn't actually make them wrong (see gotten, haitch, bring & take). Even if <gasp> the poster is American.

When I was little I thought this was the abbreviation because I thought the "t" included in the abbreviation was the second t in et cetera, not the first.

So this mistake never bothers me as there's a potential logic behind it.

I hate the D crap too

People who start threads, despite others starting the same thread monthly, which ends up with pages full of people banging on yet again about spelling, grammar and basically completely derailing from the original post.