To tell you that it's "rein" not "reign".

[FlyingElbows]

Because it is and it's doing my tits in!!

Rein. Rein. Rein. Rein. Rein.

Free rein. It's an equestrian term meaning to give the horse freedom of movement.

It is NOT reign. That's what the Queen does.

It's right up there with "intensive purposes" and "doggy dog world"!!

unlucky83

You've got it!!

I definately agree (well, provided I'm not 'on route' (argh!!!!) somewhere - for all intensive purposes - Pacific ally speaking)
I am one of those sad people who corrects Facebook posts! ( I'm 'unfriended' often, but really DO NOT care!!)
Love 'Doggy dog world'! 😂👏🏼

Oh and a seasonal one 'ball balls' on the tree

Seasonal ball balls !

We were having a house built and on the plans the master bedroom had a bathroom labelled 'On Sweet'. How could an architect's office make such an error?

Not RTFT but "defiantly" rather than "definitely" really gets on my tits, as does "your" instead of "you're/you are". How is the latter so prevalent online? Surely when at school teachers would correct such grammatical errors and one would remember when to use "your" and "you're"...?
Doggy dog world 😂 Well, it is if you're the rapper Snoop 🐶

Missing prepositions - e.g. I'm going nursery, or "Did you go Asdas?". I think it's a SE London thing. The "go Argos" advert really annoys me for this reason.

I have a colleague who starts informal emails with "Hi Yer", which I find very odd!

I can't stand the Argos advert either purplepaisley and I've just realised why!
WRT your colleague using "Hi yer" in her emails, ye instead of yes also gets my back up. JUST ADD AN S ON THE END FFS!!
(Must find more important things to get wound up about 😳)

Averse and adverse, drives me nuts

Jenn,

trying to work out if your "definately" was supposed to be ironic or not....(haven't read the whole thread)

Always thought We wish you a Merry Christmas was to you and your King! Now I feel very silly but thanks for educating me!

Threads like this make me want to go around saying the wrong thing, just to annoy people who get a kick out of correcting people

Just heard on Strictly It Takes Two.... "organs blazing" instead of "all guns blazing"

Sorry, I'm loving my inner pedant. Seriously, do people not read.

Chester draws drives me batty. Chest. Of. Drawers.

'lack toast and tolerant'

boo lack toast and tolerant has trumped my favourite doggy dog world! Brilliant😁.

Thought of another one. 'Impact' as a verb. Something will not 'impact' upon something else; it will 'have an impact'. And there's no such thing as 'impactful'. I fear I might be fighting a losing battle with this one, however.

If we're doing Christmas carols - it's 4 colly birds, not calling birds in the 12 days of Christmas.

Boy draws a nativity scene: Mary, Jesus and a portly gentleman...

"Round John, virgin mother and child"

purple I've had kids at school ask "can I go toilet"

herbaceous I've noticed impact as a verb too. Hate it, but I think that battle is lost.

And I think the "disinterested" battle is lost too...

I hate it when people refer to a letter asking what does it "say?". It should be what does it "read!"

This is a wonderful thread.. My family get very annoyed when we go out for a meal and I mutter over the menu (misplaced apostrophes etc) so I try to keep the volume down to a dull roar...
I agree with purplepaisley about the SE London missing prepositions - my DIL asks the DGC, 'Do you want to go toilet?' and I cringe (silently)
My pet hate - one which is rapidly taking over from America via the BBC - is the use of 'two-time' instead of 'twice' as in 'two-time Oscar winner'. Why - just WHY..?
Oh - and my dear friend, who says 'sangwich' whenever she eats anything between two slices of bread...