So irritating

[Lewwat]

This really bugs me

People confusing bought with brought.

AIBU

But you used two pejorative terms in two different posts, starry. Surely you have control over yourself and you wouldn't want to appear uneducated and unintelligent would you?

Maybe unpleasant slurs are fine if accompanied by perfect spelling and grammar?

Perhaps it makes them somehow less offensive?

The draw/drawers gets me too. Also bring/take used incorrectly. I love those books 'sign language' where people have taken photographs of stupid typos and spelling mistakes. Some are really funny. When I need cheering up my son gets the book and just flips to a page and we start laughing. I do think text speak has a lot to answer for and I am as guilty as others by lapsing into it especially if typing via my phone.

I was born in the 1960s and grew up hearing 'can't be arsed'.

And, yes, even is someone's Dad does say P... doesn't mean it has to get written down here.

Totally agree with you OP.

Just back from holiday with a family where I enquired nervously were they okay with my correcting about fewer vs less for the kids.

Don't spend much time In pedant's corner as I will just boil too much.

Hard enough in AIBU with split infinitives

Alright, then how would you describe the language and demeanour of people who walk around with their crotch round their knees talking like "Nah, she were a right sket, blud, you can do better, innit" and yes I actually heard that particular phrase earlier today. Even urban dictionary can only define it as Chav. So find me an alternative descriptive word that doesn't offend you and I will happily use it.

Although I have to admit, I get confused by bear/bare at times, and have to think it through a little.

I live in the land where the verb 'to take' is being replaced by 'to bring', as in "I'll bring that home with me when I go". I have even started saying it myself.

You are being absolutely reasonable. All this "I could of" or "I would of"
or "can I get" in shops. All this fecking about of the English language makes me despair. "Can I get an Americano?"

Well who knows? Can you?
Why don't you just ask for one, and see?
You will prolly find that you can, in a shop that sells coffee.
So why not say "May I have" or "I will have"
Not "Can I get?"

Why do so many people with speech impediments get jobs on TV? I am referring to that mysterious letter r which is inserted into words such as drawing so that it comes out as drawring. I never hear it used north of the border.

Can't be arsed instead of can't be asked, is irritating too. The former makes no sense anyway! Fair enough, you can't be asked to pronounce your words properly but why spell out your mispronunciation?

But it is 'can't be arsed' isn't it? It's just a saying, meaning can't be bothered. I don't know the history or it but I am pretty sure that like many colloquialisms it doesn't make much logical sense but it is definitely 'can't be arsed.'

'Can't be asked' doesn't make any sense either!

I think the frequent use of defiantly instead of definitely is probably down to autocorrect. It's a very common mistake these days but a fairly recent one I think.

Yes, "can't be arsed" is definitely correct. Who goes around forbidding people from asking them to do something? And often it's said in relation to something you would do for yourself, e.g. "I can't be arsed to darn my socks": clearly no-one is going to ask me to do that, and I mean that I can't be bothered. I've seen a suggestion that it derives from telling people to get off their arse and do something.

The one that's annoying me at the moment is "no" for "know".

I'll put my two pennarth in - I cringe when people say 'aitch' correctly then think that was wrong and believe they're correcting themselves when they immediately add 'haitch' often at twice the volume.

I never correct them because I don't want to embarrass them.

I as has been said a couple of times already I'm pretty sure it's an autocorrect thing that people have become so accustomed to seeing that now, even if they need to write the word definitely by hand, they may well spell it defiantly because they have become brainwashed into thinking it's correct without actually looking at it and thinking about it.

meant to put looking in italics there, sorry, weird emphasis on the wrong word now!

I agree tidyfairy. When I was at school if I I ever asked can I do something instead of may I the teacher always retorted "I don't know can you ?". She was also very hot on the difference between win and beat. She told me many years ago that if you win someone you take them home and put them on a shelf. I have never forgotten!

So much on this thread resonates with me, as an oldie! A few more, the confusion between borrow and lend, as in 'I borrowed her my makeup'! And why do people put an 'r' into prostate? If someone says they have prostrate problems, I envisage them flat on their face unable to get up. And I know this has been picked up on already, but 'was you?' makes me wince.

It is 'can't be arsed' btw. I've heard it often, but never ever in my longish life heard 'can't be asked'. Is it perhaps a regional thing?

My 10 year old still uses brung as the past participle of bring.

Arsed and Asked don't sound the same at all to me. It's clearly "can't be arsed".

Lots of errors seem to get ingrained in people's speech and/or writing from the things that they see and hear and it's easy to judge them for it.

H'ym defiantly lurving dis fred. Hop yous arr two!

I think it is 'arsed' - I don't understand the rationale behind thinking it is 'asked'.

I truly dislike the way that 'loose' is taking over 'lose' in written English. I see the incorrect version used so often that I think it will become standard English in due course. But language does evolve, and not always to the liking of everyone!

What is "chavvy" please