To be genuinely/generally annoyed? (Light hearted... sort of!!)

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A person in my office keeps saying "generally" when what they mean in "genuinely" ... it drives me crazy every time!

I know, I know,I should pull them up on it but I don't want to make them feel daft , or come across as condescending, so I inwardly seethe instead!

AIBU for getting so annoyed?!

What drives you mad similar to this?

Yes to the borrow/lend mix up

Can you borrow me a pencil No I will not!

Better than 'gen'ly' :-).

I worked with someone who would say, "They take disadvantage", and another who said, "Irrevelant" instead of "Irrelevant".

Oops! I wrote will instead of can

Whoops.

I think I might be one of those annoying people....
I know what the correct word is (and will get it right when writing) but muddle up my words when speaking sometimes. Sometimes malapropisms, sometimes mispronouncing stuff because my tongue feels too big for my mouth!

I’m bias - instead of I’m biased. Seen that quite a bit on here.

XDP once spoke about “dressing up in all their refinery”. All I could think of was Shell Haven.

ScottyDog do you teach your pupils the difference between there and their as well?

Drug instead of dragged. ‘They drug him off the plane’. 😡😡

Axe instead of aSKed. ‘Can I axe you something’. Can you WHAT? 🙄

At work people phone us to see if they're eligible. So many say 'am I legible?' instead.

Definitely/defiantly which seems to happen often in typed text, I think it is an autocorrect mistake? I always have to imagine what they're doing defiantly.

"I defiantly need to go to the bank tomorrow" I can just imagine them storming into the bank and grumpily asking for a cheque to be cashed, of they must, refusing to look the cashier in the eye.

I work with teenagers and hear surprisingly few mistakes in speech (although maybe I just tune them out!)

My pet hate is when someone responds to "How are you?" with "I'm good". My inner pedant struggles not to say, "I was asking about your health, not your moral rectitude".

Why is it that so many people struggle with 'specific'? DH says 'suspific' although it makes me smile rather than annoys me.

He's a bit like this man here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=T192RO5LJeQ

Another one is "nuclear" pronounced "nuckillar".

Sorry ignore! Was trying to start own AIBU. Have reported.

It makes me smile when people mix up their metaphors, it reminds me of my mum because she did it all the time.
Just the other day someone posted on here that they wouldn't trust someone with a bargepole

“We was” instead of “we were”

I love the not trusting with a barge pole

Reminds me a bit of someone I know who mixes up French expressions, who said he's not faux pas with technology. I love that!

Loose instead of lose!!!
"I loose my keys all the time!"
It annoys me EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.

Trust with a bargepole is brilliant!

My DM says abnoxious instead of noxious and it really irritates me.

My DGM used to say viveo (video), smifenoff (Smirnoff) and the best one was rottwelter (Rottweiler).

I admit that I say me instead of my (example: me mum, me dad) and I irritate DHTB by saying our kid instead of my brothers actual name.

I think lots of these seem more prevalent because we communicate in writing so much more, with facebook and other social media. You wouldn't really notice someone saying 'chester draws' rather than chest of drawers but it's really obvious in writing.

Lots of people write the way they speak. Fifty or sixty years ago, less well educated people wouldn't have been communicating socially in writing

That's a very interesting point, Zebeedee, hadn't thought of it like that.

Both my DM and MIL say 'pompadom' instead of popadom. I assume this is a weird coincidence as I've never met anyone else who says that.

Mixing metaphors - DH came out with a corker the other day. Watching a TV show with a busybody character:

'She's got her nose in too many pies, that one'.

I love local dialects, but I think that's a different thing to saying the wrong word with the wrong meaning of what the correct word is, such as generally/genuinely pacific/specific.

I have to hold my hand up to being terrible with mixing metaphors... I do it all the time!