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"

To be honest most of these peeves are because of auto correct and not proof reading before posting

The myth that certain types of dog breed can lock their jaws!

What with? A key?!

I'm British and have always used the word 'gotten'.

Is 'ill-gotten gains' a British phrase? I'd always assumed so.

I really don't think so. Autocorrect can put errors in when you didn't type them, like inserting apostrophes where they shouldn't be, but it doesn't make you type 'would of,' definately, que, or most of the peeves in this thread.

He's on the spectrum or we're all on the spectrum.

No one is on a spectrum. Autism is a spectrum so if you are autistic you will have traits FROM A SPECTRUM.

Also there instead of they're.

As in “I told DS I couldn’t give him a lift, cue lots of complaining.”

which now I’m writing it out I’m not sure is strictly grammatical but it’s definitely not spelled que.

Absolutely, I HATE this! I'm a Brit but not all countries in Britain call school years the same thing, so I have no idea what age a "year 6" child would be. Just say their fucking age!!!!!

We have went
We have gave
We was stood
ect

Discrete instead of discreet. Exasperate instead of exacerbate.

@PurpleParrotfish

I've only seen people use que instead of queue.

The way people misspell a brand of infant formula milk.
Or worse misname it for a brand of yoghurt drink.
It is a silly thing to get worked up about but it really irritates me.

@YellowAndGreenToBeSeen What’s wrong with “I’ll bring a cake to the party”?

Isle for aisle. Isle is an island such as the Isle of Arran. You walk down the aisle of a church.

I've only seen people use que instead of queue.

Mine was definitely que as a replacement for cue. I see it all the time on MN.

"My husband snores like a train, que me sleeping in the spare room." Not the best example but hopefully you get the gist.

Totally and utterly disagree about the year. Six thing mentioned on here.

It’s currency in the UK. This is an English website so you got any United States ntotally and utterly disagree about the year. Six thing mentioned on here.

It’s currency in the UK. This is an uk website so you got any United States need to suck it up like we need to suck up so many Americanisms

Leaving 'doo'
Que instead of queue
Aswell

Balls. I dictated that and it’s come out nonsensically?

basically in the UK people talk about year six and we know that you find out how old the kid is by adding on five years

I know this but I thought that it was implied that Americans don’t use British school system names and have their own equally bizarre way of referencing the grade their child is in rather than just say their age.

None a re killing fun silly threads with hilarious replies.

We can have fun and talk a out serious topics.

Cheering each other up is allowed on a site offing support.

basically in the UK people talk about year six and we know that you find out how old the kid is by adding on five years

We don't in Scotland.

Best one I saw on here was the OP wanting to "kill one bird with two stones". Made me chuckle 😁

Or you could just say “my 6 year old child”

I'm English, only ever been in the English system, now have 2 DC in it. And I still get confused by people stating a year group and not an age. If you said year 2 to me now I'd have to go through a whole process of thinking "Well DS is year 2 and he's 7 so that's a 7 or 8 year old. No wait, I mean 6 or 7 because he's had his birthday.".

And if you said year 9 I'd have to think "so that's 2 years after starting secondary so you the year you turn 13. Or start 13? Start. OK so this means a 13 or 14 year old".

Just saying 13 would be a lot less irritating and clearer.

Using was when it should be were. Ie 'we was going'.
Or the wrong past tense e.g 'I wrote it you'.

Any variation of mama - mama bear, proud mama etc.

My spidey senses are tingling.

The worst one of all - HUBBY. 😱