To wonder why...

[KenAdams]

...so many people say "should of" and "apsolutely"?

So many people seem to do it. I think more people say "should of" instead of "should have" these days. Madness!

NBU at all.

How about Pacific instead of specific???

YABU to wonder why - it's fairly obvious why they do it. "Should've" (verbal abbreviation of "should have") sounds like "should of".

YWNBU to find it irritating or to wish that they didn't.

I hate 'he's with the angles now'

It's never an appropriate time to correct them.

Umvelope instead of envelope

These are 'Americanisms' I think. The usage increases due to American TV shows being shown here and transferred into UK language.

Evolution of language Vs Queens English argument.

You should visit 'Pedants Corner', you might like it.

My old boss used to say 'exact' instead of 'exactly'. It drove me bonkers.

Ghostship that's made me laugh out loud!

My mum is having trouble with her harmones, my dad has a pesky prostrate and my kids won't eat any venchtobbles except crockley.

Spelling/pronouncing something wrong is not an "Americanism".

And a lazy cow I worked with kept saying that she had been (in a Dundee accent) horrended. How I didn't choke her, I really don't know.

Same reason they say chimley and disCusting.

Axe instead of ask.

Shudder...

Giglet, my friend's son says arkss in this weird Jafaken accent. He is from rural Bedfordshire and to our knowledge has never met anyone from the Caribbean.

I've noticed people from African and Jamaican heritage seem to say "aks" instead of "ask". Must be a dialect thing.

or draw instead of drawer.

bagofholly I even saw it on a bumper sticker once! Doesn't anybody just say 'umm I think the e becomes before the l...' :o

Two times really annoys me, what is wrong with twice.

Ghostship perhaps they were Saxons?

My mums neighbours daughter is studying a Doctrine at uni :o

ooh, you're so NBU!

My favourite hate is 'supposubly' it's supposedly and whatever you do don't start me on their, there and they're

Supposubly I HATE that too.

To hone in on.

It's home in on - you hone your skills, or the edge of a knife.

Every. Single. Meeting. In. Work. someone (my boss, I'm looking at you) says this. Aaaaagh!

That's exactly it bagofholly

anythink. somethink. nothink.

Ghostship and BagofHolly

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