To hate it when people say Pacific when they mean specific?

[showtunesgirl]

Eg "what I mean in pacific" and "what do you mean pacifically"?

No, no, no!

*I have read...

I was appalled to hear Darcey Bussell say this on ITT tonight.

I don't know why but I assumed a top ballerina would be highly educated, so I felt ridiculously let down

Have you been watching 'Kath and Kim' ?

Ha ...... yep, heard Darcey say it too. I wasn't sure if I'd misheard or not!

I can't help but twitch whenever I hear such blips, but I let it go because it's not worth quibbling about.

Darcy said "pacific?"

Have never heard anyone misuse that, oddly enough.

What really sets my teeth on edge is THINK instead of THING. I have a colleague who constantly says anythink or somethink. Grrrr....

YANBU at all.

It makes me cringe.

Noooo, did the Bussell REALLY say it?

Fast forward to 14 minutes for the faux pas

Just watched it. ARGH!!!!!!

Can I add people saying "mute point" ?
It's a moot point, not a mute point, mute means silent. Grr...

Ooh I joined this thread SPECIFICALLY to mention Darcy Bussell and you beat me to it. At first I thought perhaps I had misheard as she's quite posh but she helpfully said it again and it was definitely Pacific. Drives me nuts too.

My DDs keep saying brang instead of brought and that is driving me insane - they have the cheek not to believe me that there is no such word as brang!!

And then the could of, would of etc....again they won't believe me that they are wrong and actually making no sense whatsoever.......

DH had a colleague who in a meeting quite seriously said at one point, "Well of course it's a doggy dog world...."

Bemused looks all round.

Dog EAT dog world.

DP says it. Drives me mad and just makes him sound a bit thick, which he's not. He also says donkey's ears instead if donkey's years, fravourite instead of favourite and ibuprofulen instead of ibuprofen, and gets several local place names a bit wrong.

at a doggy dog world! I hope he said it with a suitably serious expression, furrowed brow, set jaw etc

Mulled oh yes full chiselled features, steely gaze etc - punctured somewhat when everyone fell about.

I think the less people read the more likely they are to make these sort of mistakes. People mishear words that they've never seen written down, repeat the misheard pronunciation, other people hear that....and the cycle goes on and on and on.....

It is how language evolves I guess. Butterfly used to be Flutterby.

Yanbu!

my SIL always asks if she can lend some money. I always say yeah I'll have 20 quid.

She doesn't get it...

My step-Mum again:

" I've been up and down like a horse's drawers"

Until my Dad decided to tell her it was "a whore's drawers"