To be annoyed when people misuse words?

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My DH is a prime example of this. The two which annoy me most are "My thesis is..." and, usually when he is playing a computer game and dies on it "Argh! Death becomes me!"
Unless you have written a dissertation on this subject, then you mean theory and I don't think dying on a computer game makes you look especially fetching.
It winds me up so much and I have given up telling him what he actually means.

Please MN, tell me I am not suffering alone!

your DH is a twat!

He's right. Sorry.

Can you be more pacific...

Supposably it's annoying

"Literally" annoys me, "I literally died laughing" no you didn't, shut the fuck up.

I've got news for you captainCaybara The OED have accepted the shonky use of literally in its new form and added it to their defintion.

Really? FFS.

I don't get annoyed, just find it amusing usually. I have a very clever colleague who always writes 'I was wandering...' when she means wondering.

My EXH uses 'miffed' as a synonym for puzzled.

And don't get me started on him pronouncing accurate as accriate

MIL uses the phrase 'hard on' inappropriately. Last week she was 'hard on asleep' apparently!

Don't get me started on 'very unique'. It is or it isn't.

And even on radio 4 'secetery' seems to be taking over from secretary.

Nuke-u-ler for nuclear. On the BBC news. Argh!!!

Prostrate instead of prostate makes me cross...

Thankfully it is not a word that is used too often otherwise I would explode.

My DS1 goes 'basically, blah blah blah' ALL THE TIME. When it adds NOTHING to the sentence whatsoever.

My DH gets dearth and plethora confused. It doesn't matter how many times I tell him, he still does it.

DD suggested to a friend of ours that he rode pavilion to a motorbike rally.

my friend thinks she is being extremely posh in saying wander in place of wonder. She says it's how the queen speaks.

Reminds of a post that made me chortle. The absurd:

'' 'so she turned around and said, and so I turned around and said to her, etc. etc. '

As if they had started the conversation back to back. ''

Roared, I did.

Using the word "Yourself" instead of "you" , or "myself" instead of me. prime example on a phone call when the person says " I was speaking to yourself earlier" .
Drives me mad.

Until very recently, my mother believed the phrase was "I can't be asked"...

Also when people ask if someone else has RSVP.
Apart from not reading updates, and even though I have recently used to be understood are people really asking if the other (or saying they did) "reply, please"?

Why not just type reply?

RSVP is French, even.

fastwindow - yours reminds me of.... folks using 'round' in place of 'around' especially in writing.
eg 'she came round'
eurgh

Really gets to me too...

My DP is is foreign though people would swear he's English and does this all the time.

I blame Boston Legal mostly. He hears impressive words on there and uses them in whichever context he's decided they fit.

The other day, my jokes were erroneous apparently

Funny when he does it during a row though

'One of the only' really gets to me. 'One of the only what'???
'One of the few' maybe, 'one of only 3/4/stated number' I can understand but just 'one of the only' is deeply irritating, especially when it's used in a broadsheet newspaper which should know better (Times last week).

"Ambalance" is not the correct name for a vehicle taking someone to hospital. BBC news please take note.