For wanting to stick pins in my eyes when people write "on route"

[gratefulforwhatihavegot]

If you don't understand how to write something then don't try and be clever.

Purple That's American English/not switching the spell-checker to British English.

Then there's the people who think the letter after G is called "haitch" . . .

I am the poster who reported the TAAT/PA last Saturday. It was blatantly obvious who it was about and it was a bitchfest.

What I do find amusing is that a quick read through of this thread has at least one mistake from every single poster preening and doing the snotty smuggery about other people's English.

The OP has two fairly serious mistakes in it, not just one.

Nothing much to be smug about there, is there?

Drank you've used 'much' instead of 'many' and misspelled smugg

Tsk

It's spelt Smaug!

Oh wait, this is mumsnet, not Hobbit fan-fiction. You're not talking about the dragon.

As you were.

"Tow the line" instead of "Toe the line".

"Bare" instead of "bear" (i.e. "I can't bare my MIL").

Not being judgy, just a bit ...........irritable.

The more people who vow not to bare their MILs, the better, as far I'm concerned.

I wonder if the OP can advise is of the correct usage of the phrase goady fucker

I feel really subconscious about my head today ... self- conscious you twit

A friend of mine says this. I die a little bit inside -every time...

Hair* looool

People who say nitch, when they mean niche.

Americans (sort of) anglicize the pronunciation so it is "nitch." But we do approximate the French pronunciation of "filet" and "garage" unlike most British speakers.

A friend of mine, keeps putting question marks at the end of statements? (Like that) all the bloody time! It's been mentioned by other friends as well.

In response to something like, what are you up to today? She will reply 'I'm going tesco. I've got no food in?'

The 'nitch' pronunciation used to be standard in English, so it is usually older people who say this.

Whoever mentioned 'haitch', that is common/standard in most forms of Hiberno-English. I think it has spread to GB from Ireland. (I speak one of the other forms and it still annoys me, but one of my pedantry bugbears is people saying dialect words and phrases are wrong, rather than non-standard. Except when they are wrong, of course).

My DM pronounces potpourri as "Pot (no enunciation on the "t" due to her regional accent) Uray"

So Po'uray.

No idea why. I grew up saying it the same until I heard someone else say it. No amount of correcting DM can undo a lifetime of saying "pot uray"

Someone mentioned up thread that language is about communication and as long as everyone can understand what the speaker/writer means then it's acceptable.

The trouble now though is that words seem to be taking on meanings that are the opposite of their actual meanings: one particularly annoying crossover is the use of 'literally' to mean 'figuratively'.

I am informed by my son that the new meaning has been accepted by the OED as correct because it is in such common usage.

How can it be that because a word has been used incorrectly by a large percentage of the population it now has two completely different/opposite accepted meanings.

How can we communicate sensibly on that level; words become meaningless.

That happened to "peruse." Its two meanings are really opposite. But usage is what causes language to change. It is difficult to stem the tide sometimes.

"Disinterested" is fast becoming a synonym for "uninterested." I don't like it but I will accept it.

Ive got a friend who spells thought - fort. Absolutely does my head in

Yes, ici, almost a crime. It must be really difficult for you.

Why me, LRD? I haven't actually expressed a view on the points raised in this thread: I was simply commenting on the aggressive tone of those attacking the OP and anyone who agreed with her. But don't let the facts get in the way of finding an excuse to attack someone else, will you?

Oh, come now, have a sense of humour.

It's as if you can't even point out disablism without someone coming down a ton of bricks, these days! The level of hostility to perfectly innocent comments is shocking.

This thread is panic attack inducing.

I can't cope.

I see a lot of 'bran new' on Facebook selling sites

Also, 'my DC has just turnt one' turnt?!

'Hunny' on Facebook. As in, the long version of 'Hun' which was always short for the term of endearment, 'honey'. Or indeed 'Hunni'. Arghhh.

Type 'chester draws' in the search box on eBay. See how many results there are. Now that's depressing.

My dad has the exact opposite problem, which is worse!

He stubbornly insisted for years that houmous was pronounced "who-moose" until I mocked him into submission as an adult.

"Kwah-silly-duss" was another one, it took me and OH a while to twig that he meant quesadillas.

I'm sure there are others...

LRD you've said everything that I intended to but with greater eloquence.