Honestly, to all intensive purposes you will thank me for this one day

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I'm in no position to join the grammar police but some MNetters might be grateful to learn that

all intensive purposes should actually be: all intents and purposes

per say should be: per se

mute point should be: moot point

Oops, dropped an apostrophe. Here it is: '

Bone apple tea an infusion of dried apple peel and the bones of some creature?

Tbh the incorrect use of I and me drives me mad - 'it was just DH and I in the house' but I know that most of my grammar knowledge is from learning Latin as a (rather nerdy) hobby so I'm aware of cases etc.

I get confused with it's so I always say it is

To appear very shortly on the wanky thread, no doubt, peaceout, served to some poor, unsuspecting MNer in a wanky cafe.

Bone app the teeth.

Wait do people actually say "wallah" instead of "voila"? That's a new low

Do people really write "wallah"?!

En route and en pointe piss me off too.

Tbh the incorrect use of I and me drives me mad

Me too - but I think it's because people think "me" is being rude. I remember being told off as a child for saying "can me and Jane go to the shop?" and having to correct it to "Jane and I". There's a simple way of working out what's the correct version but there is this sticking point over saying "me".

We regularly get letters from school saying things like "If you have any problems please feel free to contact myself" which makes me wince too.

Sadly, if you think this will make any difference, you've got another thing coming.

I have found my people.

Your proberly all wasting you're time hear but grate effort anyways. Preganant is one but bugs me a lot.

Most of the examples here aren't words changing meaning though. It's not like "literally" expanding to include a definition of "for exaggeration or dramatic effect", or "hopefully" having come to mean "one hopes that..." as well as "with hope". These are words with their own distinct meaning having been misheard and transcribed as a homophone or near-homophone that has a completely different meaning, and then the mistake gets copied and spreads. Do we just shrug and say "ah fuck it, I can guess they probably really mean X"? If your gas bill was £100 and you sent a payment for £10 do you think the company should just handwave and say "ah, near enough, you can see what they meant"?

The people with dyslexia I know have said they find it harder when mistakes like this are made. One says she relies on the letter patterns so the wrong word throws off her understanding of the context completely. They put more effort into writing correctly, not less, because they know how hard it is when the wrong word is used.

I never pull people up, especially on social media, and I don't think poor grasp of written English is a marker of intelligence - it's a skill that some people find easier to pick up than others. I do think there's a double standard on MN though. Point out the correct version of increasingly common SPAG mistakes as the OP tried to do, and you're a "snotty stuck up superior snob". Make any other factual mistake or display evidence of having misunderstood or not fully learned something, e.g. if you said hostas hated shade and you'll be jumped on and corrected within minutes - and not particularly kindly, either.

I can't say that this annoys me but in the East Midlands (never heard this anywhere else but I stand to be corrected) when a person is confused or doesn't believe something the response is sometimes, "A were*" with the emphasis very heavily on the second syllable.

*spelled phonetically as I've no idea how to spell this - I've never seen it written down.

When I lived in the South I never ever heard this.

Aren't the saying "away"? In Scotland this is heard now and again:

Child: A lion came into the classroom today!!
Parent: Away....

As in "get away with you!" Meaning really?

In the West Midlands we say 'oo EH' (not to be confused with 'oo AY') With the emphasis on the 'EH'.
The posher of us may say 'oo ER'.Same emphasis on second syllable.

That was to morningconstitutional

Generally instead of genuinely.

Anyone else noticed that one?

"Defiantly" is an auto-correct of the incorrect "definately", in case anyone was wondering!

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I do think there's a double standard on MN though. Point out the correct version of increasingly common SPAG mistakes as the OP tried to do, and you're a "snotty stuck up superior snob". Make any other factual mistake or display evidence of having misunderstood or not fully learned something, e.g. if you said hostas hated shade and you'll be jumped on and corrected within minutes - and not particularly kindly, either.

Quite the intrinsic nature of some Mumsneters, also known as the art of being contrary for the sake of it.

I teach English. For an embarrassingly long time I thought the phrase "to make ends meet" as "to make hen's meat". Made sense to me. I also keep saying bought instead of brought. I know it's wrong. I can't stop it though.

Greatful gets my goat. It is grateful. Along with just about everything already mentioned on this thread.

I just wondered into this thread for a quick peak. If I would of knew it was about grammer I wouldn't of wanted too. I loath grammer cops they should just get over theirselves. MN is such a doggy dog world sometimes.

Another one I've been seeing a lot of on MN lately is the use of the word 'disinterested' instead of 'uninterested' in most cases.

They are not synonyms for each other. Disinterested means 'impartial', no vested interest in the matter either way e.g America watched the Australian elections with complete disinterest.

Uninterested means 'not concerned' e.g The boy was uninterested in education.

allegretto Me too me too!! I also taught English! But I thought it was to 'make hens meet', ie. an introductory service for chickens.