Misuse of words( light hearted)

[Ollienoodles45isbananas]

My dd constantly uses the word "like" multiple times in sentences, it's slowly driving me insane. Iv asked her so many times to not use the word unless it's actually needed in the sentence. To make matters worse she never ever stops talking so we must here "like" a thousand times a day. So aibu to either charge her 10p for every time she says it, or gag her? Is this something that's happening with most kids of today?

whooshbangprettycolours "My DH family will say: yes we should do that, didn't we."

You have to go nc.

DP (and his dad) both say 'acrosst' instead of 'across'. Why!!! Drives me bonkers.

In supermarkets to kids: 'Do you want them ones?'

My sil says 'hair' instead of 'heir' and
Thime instead of thyme.
Pisses me of big time.
Like/literally /lol all piss me of.
My DH fucking sent months calling his architect a architecture. I was like wtf?!

Kids leaving out "to the" as in "I'm going shops".

has anyone heard this before? Is it a regional thing? I only ever hear it from one chavvy person I see regularly.....
"I loved that holiday I did"
"I want to go out I do"
"I'll buy a PlayStation I will"
"I'd go there I would"
Etc.

• was meant to be in bold!

My exdh (linguist) always said you couldn't mis-speak your own language, it was correct by default.

Yes, well, he's an ex for a reason

'Can I get....' Sounds rude and abrupt, not to say confusing, conflating ability with request. I remember at my stuffy boarding school if you were foolish enough to even say 'Can I have xxx,' it would prompt the response, 'I'm sure you can' ... Meaning you were capable of having the item. But if you were requesting something, the correct question was always 'May I have xxx?
otherwise you were an ill-brought up lout

Creeping Americanisms - we use to "fill in" a form; now we "fill out". And "twice" is disappearing to be replaced by "two times". I'm thinking of reviving "thrice", just to be difficult.
Then there's 'invite' and 'quote' used as nouns...

I'd find it hard to believe if I was the only person to have come across many people who use 'pacifically' rather than 'specifically'...I've even had colleagues type this in an email...it's not even a fecking word.

MIL says "par-mee-zee-an" for Parmesan cheese, "Siri-ated" for serrated, "dining Alfredo" meaning alfresco.

DM was a teacher and kids used to come to her and ask 'do you have a pencil?' DM would reply, 'yes, thank you, I do' and carry on with what she was doing while said child stood there waiting to be given another pencil, unable to work out why they weren't getting one just handed to them!

Others that get on my goat are - lay down instead of lie down. This seems to be an American thing, mostly. Unable to tell the difference between 'then' and 'than' - it really isn't difficult.

KittyVonCatsworth Oh, trust me, you're not, I mentioned it a few pages ago because it is one of those I can never understand either My sister's ex used to say it all the time. Cringeworthy!

I am trying to think of some more at the moment but I just thought of this: When I was growing up, we had a neighbour who referred to 4x4s as "4x5s". Her accent made it "4 be 5", as in "Are you going out in your 4 be 5?".

DD has started to say, "To be fair..." at the start of every sentence. I have no idea where she's picked it up from, but it's really annoying (or innoying, if you're DD).

I like the idea of a 'jester of goodwill'. He could offer peace and love in abundance, whilst tapping out a rhythm with his bell topped stick .

Shockers ... That is indeed a 'shocker' ... another one I can stand is when people say "So I turned around and said ..." and also, "At the end of the day ..." has become massively overused. I blame Jeremy Kyle for increasing the use of these! People who can't speak proper ... I mean properly!

*can't understand ... whoops, this thread has got me doing it too!

Also text language and all those awful abbreviations. Am I the only one who finds it easier to write a text message in correct English rather than in text language? I once had the misfortune to see a child write an entire essay in text language

By sisters ex says supposebly! With a fecking b!

My SIL (a woman in her 30s, she's not a teenager) says "like" about 10,000 a day.
She's recently posted a pic of my niece on facebook and commented on it "she's so gorgeous like"