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

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CurlewKate · 03/07/2023 19:35

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

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SauvignonBlanche · 05/07/2023 21:13

wutheringkites · 05/07/2023 20:51

Maybe you should of thought that one through Smile

I blame DH (naturally) he was talking to me at the time.😆

I obviously wasn’t capable of typing such a travesty without really concentrating.

quince2figs · 05/07/2023 21:28

‘ect’ instead of ‘etc’. Especially when used multiple times .in one sentence (reminds me of the King and I!)
Appears many unaware that the latter is short for the Latin “et cetera”

Clementineorsatsuma · 05/07/2023 21:34

The one I see everywhere, absolutely everywhere, is women when it should be woman. I just don't get it?!

"There was a women in the shop"
I was talking to a women"

The a and the e are not even next to each other! Makes me seethe!!

abbey44 · 06/07/2023 01:40

Clementineorsatsuma · 05/07/2023 21:34

The one I see everywhere, absolutely everywhere, is women when it should be woman. I just don't get it?!

"There was a women in the shop"
I was talking to a women"

The a and the e are not even next to each other! Makes me seethe!!

It’s particularly irritating that these same people don’t get “man” and ”men” cofused in the same way…

BarbaraofSeville · 06/07/2023 04:50

Wait, are people writing women instead of woman deliberately? Why?

I always assumed it was an autocorrect as it's so basic, it's not like they're having to remember and understand the difference between affect and effect for example. Or perhaps people who's first language isn't English and perhaps they're used to plurals for multiple female people working differently?

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 06/07/2023 06:08

SauvignonBlanche · 05/07/2023 20:16

I hate ‘could have’ or ‘should have’ and ‘disinterested’ instead of ‘uninterested’. I blame my former English teacher. 😄

Annoyingly, ‘disinterested’ with the meaning of ‘uninterested’ does exist as a valid usage (and was likely coined by John Donne) but I very much doubt the people using it this way realise this. I hope we aren’t losing the distinction because it is useful. It is possible to be very interested in a disinterest!

grass321 · 06/07/2023 06:33

Wait, are people writing women instead of woman deliberately? Why?

My two teenagers can't say women correctly. They say woman, no matter how many times I correct them. It's bizarre and very irritating.

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