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

When 'less' is used instead of 'fewer' really riles me. It even sounds wrong so no excuse!

I heard appceptable the other day.....

Apologies if already mentioned but:

"Off of" together in a sentence. WTF

A Radio 1 DJ often says "Celeb (insert mystical name) OFF OF Hollyoaks" or some other programme full of celebs

Queue the music. No!!!

I say the d in Wednesday too, Scottish.

I loved "woofed down a slither of cake"

ummm, according to google?

and thats been taken from the Oxford dictionary. Gotta love the ever changing nature of language.

Axe instead of ask

Angle instead of angel ... I feel like saying "stop being so obtuse"

Also I keep seeing phased when they person clearly means fazed. Just seen it now on another thread.

Island for roundabout. Must be a regional thing as never heard it until I moved to the East Midlands.

Aswell - autocorrect doesn't want me type it so why do people think it's right?!

Pretty much all of the above too!

Oh how annoying Ftlofg, how can the meaning of a word change just because people use it incorrectly; literally is another example of this. Where is the word that conveys the difference between literally and figuratively if they can both mean the same.

There are so many examples of this type of pandering to the lowest common denominator now. It renders English a poorer language, and in many instances completely nonsensical.

Ftlofg I can't believe the dictionary have done that!

Next thing they'll have...

Brought

1. Past tense of 'to bring'

1. English informal

Bought 'I brought a new dress off of my local selling page and put it in my Chester draws'

So many
'Of' instead of 'have'
Loose instead of lose
Alot instead of a lot
No instead of know
Accept/except mix ups

aww cmon, language is a fluid thing, it changes all the time. What you consider 'proper' isn't what what considered 'proper' 10/50/300 etc years ago. I always think about the origins of the word goodbye. Perfectly normal word to us but i imagine 300 years ago people frothing at the mouth at the uncouth shortening of god be with you to god b w ye which through common use became goodbye and complaining that the English language was going to pot

I thought this was going to be about slither.io

Ooh cool word origin there ftl, I didn't know that!
Still no excuse for loose though......

Ooh another one. 'Judgy'. See it a lot on this site. Always makes me wonder if the poster actually believes it's the right word.

Been saying it wrong for years, first person to put me right in 48 years
Everyone else must have been too polite ??

Scottish here, I say how instead of why and it cracks my Irish DP up

I love the things the Scottish say that are different. The first time I heard someone say that they "stay" in town instead of live, I was really confused and asked them how long they stay there for before going home

Also, "just now" instead of now. "I'm washing my hair just now" - surely that means you've already washed it?!

I can't talk. I'm a regular "now in a minute" girl

'My bloke is a gooden'

DH says people have 'corn rolls' in their hair. James Bond wears a cumberbund with his suit.

A woman I work with says 'comdoms'.

Oh and 'I won him at snooker'. That's nice, dear. Are you going to put him on your shelf?

'Can you borrow me a tenner?'

PoMpadoms!!!

Less and fewer.

THE WORST!