Oooh you pedants are going to love this!

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www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/05/the-35-words-youre-probably-getting-wrong

Any pedants regularly passing Birch services eastbound on the M62 should definitely pop in. Next to the loos is a sign telling us that Moto APOLIGISE for the inconvenience whilst they are carrying out some work, thus necessitating a temporary unisex lavatory arrangement.

Every time I've been there, there has been a small group of people pointing at the sign and sniggering. I was, of course, one of them.

It is a proper sign, made by a proper sign maker, BTW. Not written with a magic marker on a bit of paper. Shame on Moto and its signwriters!

The kids need fed. FFS, they either need feeding or they need to be fed.

Oh the irony of the Guardian having the nerve to publish anything regarding SPAG.

I know it has already been mentioned - but the whole "myself" thing. I even have to read it on official notices where I work.

Just. Stop. It... (goes away, lies in a dark room and twitches)

Surely no one thinks chronic means acute?

Looking at that list I realise I use "alternative" wrong but none of the others!

A regional quirk from somewhere near me is tret instead of treated.

As in - treat others as you would like to be tret (treated).

Yes Spiteful, that drives me crazy too. I've recently moved and here they say 'Washing needs done' and in the shop 'Anyone need served?'. Surely it's not too much to ask to say 'doing / to be done' or 'serving / to be served'?

Euphemia

Nina My point was that, had she been American, her spelling would have been fine. However as she was Scottish, speaking to an audience of teachers from Scottish schools, in Scotland, it was incorrect.

What was the hmm face for?

Sorry. I misunderstood. You are absolutely right.

Ooh yes myself cos it sounds posher than me

I also hate brought for bought, and flaunt for flout - as in people who flaunt the law aaargh!

My dd says brung. As in - someone brung their teddy to school today.

To be fair, she is only 6. But she gets corrected!

My pet peeve is the pluralisation of "you" when speaking to more than one person. I am not a female sheep.

My DM is a proper pedant. To avoid her constant corrections my DD perfected the phrase 'Please may can I .....?' thereby covering every possible grammatical possibility. I wish I had had her grammatical knowledge and chutzpah when I was three.

I am so enjoying this - but I think there are fewer of us! It's not new - 20 years ago at my DC's infant school there was a notice on the door with two spelling mistakes and one arithmetical one. Written by DC's teachers. I snuck in with a pen (am I allowed snuck?) and corrected them.

My other pet hate is (the often understandable) business of "it happened to my partner and I". Grrr. Fine if you're speaking patois and "is it I" is normal but not when you're affecting to speak basic English.

Have no problem with regional vocabulary, popular grammar. Round here we say somewhen instead of sometime. And I love the Scots outwith. Nor any problem with the creative use of language either.
But the other thing I hate is organisational speak. Who's for blue sky thinking, cascading, 360 degree thinking, out of the box and going forward? And when did SO become a way to start a sentence?

Ends rant. Drinks tea out of the box and cascades to bed.

I was on a course last week and the trainer kept saying pacific instead of specific. I held my tongue though.

I don't know if it's just an Australian thing, I hadn't heard it before I moved here - My current annoyance is when school kids are talking about playing against another team in sports they say "We versed the other team" or "We are versing the other team this weekend". It's obviously derived from 'versus' and is so wrong but even the teachers are saying it now so the kids don't stand a chance!

Also very common: "I am sat here". No you are not, you are sitting. Just stop it

I LOATHE this. Ditto "I was stood", instead of standing etc. It makes the writer or speaker sound so uneducated.

It seems to be a very British thing. Is it taught in the schools there?

I'm on message boards from all over the world and using these phrases instantly outs the poster as from the UK.

I was told it was a regional thing (North) but I am from the NW and it really grates on me, so I don't believe it.

I say "I am sat here" just to annoy people. I draw the line at could of though.

Also very common: "I am sat here". No you are not, you are sitting. Just stop it.

Über-pedantic, I know, but you are neither sat nor sitting . The verb 'to sit' refers to the motion of lowering yourself onto the seat (or whatever). Once there, you are seated. You'd sound like a bit of a knob if you said it out loud though. Although not as much of a knob as saying "I am sat..."

My favourite local one (Notts) is the utter confusion over the past tense of "treat."

You'd think treated would be fairly straightforward, no-nonsense thing to say, but oh no - it HAS to be:

"I tret meself to a nice cup of tea and a cake," or etc.

And as for whether it should be hung, hang or hanged, well don't even go there...

Incorrect usage of "myself" gives me raaaage!!!!

I do say "led" though,