To get wound up by slither?

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Why? Why do people say they'll have a "slither" of cake/pie? It's "sliver". It annoys me unreasonably

I'm glad there are others like me. I try not to let these spellings irritate, but they invariably do! Slither and Chester draws are two of the most twitch inducing, but I do a mean eyebrow raise at brought instead of bought.

For some reason drafting Education Health and Care Plans seems to make people abandon normal grammar. Because a copy of the plan goes to the parents?

I remember Chris Moyles discussing tuthpaste/toothpaste

and everyone in the south inserting an 'r' into every word. Marster, tarsk, Frarnce.

..oh and "we was walking". No. You " were walking".

Needs gone

Needs gone on but and sell sites is my absolute pet hat.
I can I buy a second anything from someone who uses it

Bloody hell "buy and sell" and "pet hate"

I can't stand people saying myself or yourself when they mean me or you. Also mixing up practice (noun) with practise (verb). I once had a stand up row with the person who proof reads our reports before they go out to parents at school. She had changed the word practise so that it was wrong on loads of them and refused to change them back. The head of English had to intervene, it got quite unpleasant but I was right and she had to change them all back - ha!

I always suggest slices of cake, not sure I've ever offered a sliver (nor a slither). Probably wrong aren't I, I will never offer cake ever again.

I'm generally fine with grammar misuse, but I do get a bit twitchy when much and many are most used incorrectly.

KathArtic "..oh and "we was walking". No. You " were walking"."

Actually I stand corrected, this irks me at times too. I'm always signing at Alan Sugar when I watch The Apprentice.

Generally instead of genuinely. "I generally like you." Very different meaning!

Myself instead of me, especially when people use it to sound posh!

I had a friend who would try and add an extra syllable on when saying the word drawer. She was way better than me in English lessons as school, but for some reason wouldn't accept that it's said "draw" not "draw-yer".

How do you say Wednesday without pronouncing the 'd'? Sounds all shades of wrong to say We-nesday.

My friend says (and writes!!!!) "mind due".

Every. Time.

I love her but it gives me the rage!

blue sky If (like me) you have an accent where you don't say the d in Wednesday then you sort of elide the first two syllables (as you say it) into one: wens-day.

Confession time: I am a highly educated professional who cannot say 'specific' correctly unless I really, really focus on it: I say pacific and I just cannot train myself out of it. I rewrite my lectures and conference papers to avoid having to say it out loud... I use the word 'particular' a lot!

I'm assuming that 'defiantly' for 'definitely' was initially an auto-correct issue, but I have a terrible feeling that it's now seen so often that people can't tell the difference. It's given me a deep loathing of the innocuous word 'defiantly', though.

I hate 'sliver' of cake, anyway. It sounds coy, as if doilies are involved, as if spoken by the kind of tinkly woman who pats her stomach after every mouthful and says 'Must keep an eye on the old waistline!'

Have a bloody slice of cake. Or don't.

Having ponders the whole Wednesday thing further I have concluded that I pronounce the d because i am Scottish. Having said it out loud many time while walking the dog I realise we Scots pronounce the hell out of that d!

For some reason drafting Education Health and Care Plans seems to make people abandon normal grammar. Because a copy of the plan goes to the parents?

Not getting that, KathArtic? Do local authorities assume parents won't understand something that's written in ordinary sentences and spelt properly?

I pondered not ponders!

Him or her instead of he and she - e.g. "Her and her friend went out for the evening". Surely people who say this wouldn't say "Her went out" so why does adding "and her friend" change that?

This is not a thing - surely???

And sorry to a PP but "pacific" instead of "specific" really grates my yams.

I'm another who hates 'myself' and 'yourself' instead of me, I and you. So many work emails include sentences like 'Please contact myself' or 'I'll send it to yourself' or 'John and myself will be here at ten'. Do they think it somehow sounds more professional?

Arch

YES! My old manager used to do this and it made me want to stave his head in.

Mis-use of "myself/yourself" is my personal nadir. I call it the "estate agent's reflexive".

Excetra.