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"

Me did if me Cookie Monster

I don't think you know what this phrase is meant to mean. It's not really about luck. It means "you've taken an unwise risk, but it's your choice and you'll have to deal with the consequences".

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/it-s-own-lookout

@ForTheSnarkWasABoojumYouSee wow, thanks for that, I'd never heard of it. I'll have to remember to unclench now when I see it 🤣

Really? I don't think the majority of posters would even have heard the word asymptotic, so I'm surprised that it was regularly misused to mean an absence of symptoms, when asymptomatic literally has the word symptom in it and is a far more common word.

No! Totally agree. It makes the person writing seem stupid!

This reminds me - posters who say something like "I went to the supermarket that begins with A" JUST SAY ASDA! Nothing is going to happen if you name the supermarket.

Yikes. 10 pages. I thought it was 2😅

Apologies if it's been said, but curb on a parking thread makes my teeth itch

Threads like this! If this thread stops anyone reaching out who genuinely needs help and thinks this site is their only option god help them.

I 'am' a bit OCD. 🙄

Discrete when they mean discreet. Two different meanings.

Autocorrect I assume - posters had a vague stab at asymptomatic, but ran out of patience, autocorrect altered it to asymptotic, they said "yeah, looks fine".

And then of course because asymptomatic was a previously relatively unfamiliar word, some people would see other posters using asymptotic and genuinely think that that was correct.

It was all over the MN Covid threads in late 2020.

(I also run out of patience when typing asymptomatic by the way - it's one of those words where I always let my phone's autocomplete do the heavy lifting - fortunately I happen to know which of the two options it presents me with is the right one)

Could you be any more patronising?

I was sat/I was laid instead of I was sitting, I was lying.

your instead of you’re. But this is everywhere!

Yes drawers! 9 times out if 10 it's draws. GRR

Really? What’s the grammar rule for that then? I don’t think it’s correct in any form of English, if it’s being used as a plural. 1990’s would only be correct in the context of ‘1990’s most memorable event was undoubtedly…’ (add event of choice!)

Because your 13 yo would be in Y8 or Y9! 😉

I disagree, only RP, educated people who have a grasp of grammar welcome.

Nasty ableist thread.

YAY OR NAY

Dose instead of does

Case in point. No one knows what the years mean 😂

The thing that bugs me is draws when they mean drawers!

Staycation used to mean going on holiday in the UK.
Staycation means staying in your home and going on day trips.
Going on holiday in the UK is called going on holiday.

When the poster makes a significant typo - that changes the meaning of what they are trying to say, eg switching “dd” to “dad” - in the title of their post. I know this is probably a bit uncharitable of me because everyone makes mistakes but it drives me up the wall! It means people come into the thread with totally off expectations as to what advice is actually being sought.

People who are so uptight about appearing superior that they resist progress ~and harp on about neologisms~ Presumably, you’re still using apostrophes as follows:
‘phone
photo’s

[web]site’
Or, even better, refusing to use these words at all given their recent creation!

Similarly, people who get upset about Americanisms, ignoring the fact that America is the only reason English is still ubiquitous/desirable anywhere outside the Commonwealth

Oh, and the phrase ‘makes my teeth itch’. Just off to shampoo my soul…

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