People using the wrong words for things - does it drive anyone else up the wall?

[LanisHouseLot]

I was recently staying with relatives and one kept offering and making Welsh rarebit. Lovely! Except that it was just cheese on toast. I like cheese on toast too but it is definitely not Welsh rarebit. I had to bite my tongue from saying anything because despite feeling enraged i have no desire to make anyone feel stupid or corrected. But it was bubbling up inside nonetheless!

Today I saw a 'High Tea' event advertised. Little sandwiches and cakes, cups and saucers etc - clearly afternoon tea rather than high tea. Why does it bug me so much that I'm still thinking about it and wanting to tell the organiser, and all the women looking forward to their high tea, that they've made a terrible mistake and that high tea isn't what they think it is?! Does anyone else find it unbearable?

I am similar about apostrophe misuse and spelling mistakes (despite not seeing my own mistakes half the time ). These errors are even more infuriating because it is entirely the wrong thing being described.

Acronyms are words made from first letters of something, for example, NASA, WHO, AIDS, FOMO
Initialism are those that don't make words, for example, GP, KFC, CEO, e.g
Abbreviations are shortened words, for example, vs, dept, etc

That's a Ploughman's lunch!!

Disinvited vs uninvited

You can take it and place it where the sun don't shiine!
Mac n cheese indeed
Hurummph

😶😶😶😶
You don't like macaroni cheese???!

Americans also say carmel
I don't think they like vowels. Listening to them pronounce 'mirror' is excruciating!

I used to be like this and then two things happened. Am an author and my editor corrected me, quoting a style guide, on something I thought was totally correct, then it happened a few times! And secondly I started reading stories for people who were getting ready to send things to their editors and I realised some of the best storytellers would be corrected over and over by people who may be precise and correct, but not come close to them in terms of description and hooking someone!!!

Saying that, as someone said, you’ve realised you’re a pedant, that’s who you are!!!

We invented the language, they took it on the Mayflower. But....
They then dumped into the water in Boston along with the tea

When Americans use the noodles to mean pasta

*word

I have found incorrect use of "myself", when actually meaning "me", or "I", to be excruciating.

Also, on apostrophes, they are the difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit 🤣

I'm confused because Welsh Rarebit IS basically cheese on toast with a dash of Worcestershire sauce! What else is it meant to have? Or are you miffed because they left off the Worcestershire sauce? 😂

DH has a friend who says 'Quintessentially' instead of 'Essentially' and he's really taken a shine to it, uses it loads.

It's very difficult for everyone.

When I was a kid I thought a rest bite was when you stopped off on a journey at a services and got sandwiches.

I know.

It's the using it loads that does my head in. There was a man in a funding organisation I used to work with who was keen on getting down to the pacifics.

No, I find it a bit samey. Maybe with a bit of chorizo on top it would be better... 😊

@splatmouse , something like CD is an abbreviation and an initialism. To be an acronym, it needs to be said as a word.

@TheShellBeach , I probably '@ed' the wrong user.

@Malaguena123 , Welsh rarebit is not the same as cheese on toast. It's more like a cheese sauce cheese on toast.

I've noticed people using wonder instead of wander.
'I was wondering around'. It happens regularly, so I don't think it's a typo.

Oh my God - for some reason this drives me insane!
'A lasagna noodle' - I mean, what?!

Not exactly the 'wrong' word, so much as vastly overused:

Etiquette
Entitled
Triggered
Privileged
Gaslit
Narcissistic

Mumsnet bingo there.

Oh yes and

Cringe ( should be cringe worthy or better, embarrassing)
Cliche rather than clichéd
Que for cue (presumably )
Text as a past tense

Also started to notice this error:

Probable (eg) for probably

And my new pet hate:

Vege for veggie ( vegetarian)

@MilesOfCarpetTiles me too.

Mac ´n' cheese
Surf ´n' Turf

Ugh.

Even when it is called pasta it's pronounced pahstah. And herbs ´erbs. Yes that is the French pronunciation but why only this when lingerie and croissant are butchered?

The Ritz call it 'the afternoon tea experience.'
When afternoon tea was picked up by Americans it started to be called 'High Tea.' Also could be called 'Nursery Tea' (supervised by Nanny).

'Mac 'n Cheese'. Cruel and Unusual - nails on chalkboard.

Yes. ‘Terror’ and ‘horror’ also. ‘Horror’ is the worst for me as it just sounds like one big indistinct vowel when they say it.