to think you are NOT weary

[DontPanicMrMannering]

DH and everyone else. You are not in fact tired of something that concerns/elicits caution of you. You are WARY of it.

Ok OK? I'm right and in no way unreasonable

HeywoodMonkey

'Reach' is the proper pronunciation for the vomiting noise. "ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: variant of dialect reach, from a Germanic base meaning ‘spittle’."

My mother used to quip "Excuse me reaching across you, there is something I'd like to bring up".

'Would of' makes me mad. Very mad

A manager at my old workplace wrote an email to my manager saying that she felt her team were being made escape goats in a project gone wrong.

I often get the characteristic Pedants' eye-twitch when talking to supposedly educated adults.
YY to "Nucular","could of" and "pacifically".
"Bockle" instead of "bottle" winds me up.

at escape goats. Were they busy digging tunnels?

A friend says 'fink' instead of 'think'. She is an intelligent, educated woman, but it really annoys me. I suppose it might be an accent thing (Suffolk?).

I frequently see 'defiantly' when people mean to write 'definitely'.

:) at Escape Goats.

Affect vs effect
Practice vs practise
Aks instead of ask

There are more ... But not just now!!!

I know a lot of people who travel to London via St Pancreas station

We have an official printed and laminated sign in one of our London offices going on about St Pancreas station. I have not quite dared to get my marker pen out on it. (Actually, I'm not sure I can reach it.) One battle at a time. I did get them to change all the signs warning people about the men who might be working behind doors last time I was there. They did it very quickly once I'd put the request in, and I got a personal apology, which I wasn't at all expecting.

I once had a boyfriend who would not be convinced that the words supple and subtle weren't interchangeable

MrTP would never say that, just my other DH The bad one

That keeps giving me the giggles

Ah, the Escape Goat - popularised by the late Jade Goody, iirc.

I nominate people who are wondering around the place, rather than wandering. Or who are phased instead of fazed. Or who undergo rights of passage rather than rites.

Yes, to "wandering/wondering", BOF
(Has anyone mentioned "bought/brought" ?)

Radio 1's insistent use of the phrase 'off of' really winds me up, especially when it's used in contexts such as 'Tom Cruise off of Hollywood' and 'Rooney off of football' Aarghh!

Actually Peppi, tendere is Latin (since we are being pedantic on this thread). The French word would be tendre. :)

Although I agree it's tenterhooks. I like the explanation, I've never heard that before.

Someone is selling a "chest of draws" on FB today.
< hides post as it makes me twitchy >

Dh has fond memories of childhood holidays to "Isly Wiggit".

'Bored of' drives me mad. Where I live people pronounce 'certificate' as 'susstificate' and look pityingly if it is corrected (not by me, I wouldn't dare).
I quite agree over 'Could of' / 'Would of'. Lack of grammar teaching leads to poor spelling ability.
And don't start me on apostrophes.....

Roll instead of role grrr...we do a lot of role-play as training at work...when I'm told it's roll-play makes me think of juggling bread buns.

Yes to pacific/specific

Haitch rather than aitch makes me want to punch someone

Oh and someone at nursery taught the kids to 'aks' nicely to 'go toilet'. Ask ask ask! go TO THE toilet! Grrrrrrrrr

My DH tells the children off for being 'twiney'. It seems his mother said it to him as both she and my SIL use it too.

IT'S WHINY!

"Should of" instead of "should have" is like nails down a blackboard.

I also hate the use of 'myself' instead of 'me' eg 'could you address your reply to myself' NO SHUT UP SHUT UP.

Maybe all these people need a secuterry to sort them out

I think "twiney/twiny" is a Scottish thing - we were forever being told to "stop twining" as kids. Tbf, though, I've just looked in three dictionaries and not found that definition.

My DH insists on using "myself" when "me" would be perfectly adequate, and on saying "... for Xxxx and I" when it should be "... for Xxxx and me" (you wouldn't say "for I").

Agree with most of these, inc. weary/wary, should of / should have, defiantly / definately / definitely, its / it's, your / you're, chest of draws, nucular.

Also their/there/they're and affect / effect: if you Affect something then it means you have an Effect on it. (Affect is NOT a noun; effect CAN be a verb but it has a different meaning.) Surprised nobody has mentioned those yet!

"Revert" annoys me but I think it's just an Americanism that's been adopted over here.