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To wonder why...

35 replies

KenAdams · 22/10/2012 11:20

...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!

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Bubblemoon · 22/10/2012 11:21

NBU at all.

How about Pacific instead of specific???

Trills · 22/10/2012 11:23

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.

GhostShip · 22/10/2012 11:23

I hate 'he's with the angles now'

It's never an appropriate time to correct them.

WorraLiberty · 22/10/2012 11:23

Umvelope instead of envelope

MrGeresHamster · 22/10/2012 11:25

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.

missymoomoomee · 22/10/2012 11:25

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

bagofholly · 22/10/2012 11:28

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.

Trills · 22/10/2012 11:29

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

bagofholly · 22/10/2012 11:29

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.

Fakebook · 22/10/2012 11:29

Same reason they say chimley and disCusting.

Giglet · 22/10/2012 11:29

Axe instead of ask.

Shudder...

bagofholly · 22/10/2012 11:32

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.

Fakebook · 22/10/2012 11:32

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

BeingBooyhoo · 22/10/2012 11:32

or draw instead of drawer.

GhostShip · 22/10/2012 11:32

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

mollymole · 22/10/2012 11:33

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

bagofholly · 22/10/2012 11:34

Ghostship perhaps they were Saxons? Grin

wannabedomesticgoddess · 22/10/2012 11:34

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

anklebitersmum · 22/10/2012 11:35

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 Grin

missymoomoomee · 22/10/2012 11:42

Supposubly I HATE that too.

OnTheBottomWithAWomansWeekly · 22/10/2012 11:47

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!

Giglet · 22/10/2012 12:02

That's exactly it bagofholly

Dannilion · 22/10/2012 12:21

anythink. somethink. nothink.

Angry
KenAdams · 22/10/2012 12:57

Ghostship and BagofHolly Grin

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SirSugar · 22/10/2012 12:58

innit