I’ve just heard

[TheSheepofWallSt]

CHESTER DRAWERS in the wild!

From a person I did not expect to hear it from...

WIBU to have thought that it was a myth?!

I once watched Martina Cole on TV talking about grievous bodily harm. Over & over she said, "griev-y-ous" bodily harm, as if grievous had three syllables and was spelled "grievious". It drove me crazy !!!

I have to add '3 peace sweet'. Obvs it should be 'three piece suite'

I assume they weren’t talking about sheep

No they weren't. They were talking about wether to do this or wether to do that...I wondered where the missing "h"s go - but then I realized it's some kind of cosmic balancing. My ex (mentioned earlier in the thread) uses all these dropped "h"s when he writes where instead of were.
Grrrr....

Another one that irritates me is when people mix up site/sight or saw/sore or soul/sole

One I’m seeing increasingly on FB is they’re instead of they’ll...

They’re be in town tomorrow instead of they’ll be in town tomorrow.

"please may you [send me this info by lunchtime]."

Yes what is this please may you thing? I noticed Stacey Dooley saying it on Glow Up - "Please may you come through to the judging area" etc. Sounds so weird!

Yes I first heard this from Stacey Dooley on Glow Up too!! It's like she made it up in an effort to sound more professional or something. Like people who refer to themselves or others as "myself" or "yourself".

Grrr. This is becoming more common. "The lion predates upon small deer'. No it doesn't. Predate is not a verb. The bloody lion, and all other predators, PREY on their unfortunate snacks. Which are known as the prey, which possibly leads to confusion.

Weatherspoons and Stanstead Airport pop up on Facebook all the time....drives me nuts !!!

Ohhh and also people writing hovering when they mean hoovering.

When people start a sentence with 'so'
I asked my friend what she'd been up to lately and she replied
"So, we've been..."
Is this a new thing? I seem to hear it a lot lately!

Frezzer is my favourite

On Facebook I have a person who takes a photo of her cup of tea in her hand, a tin of biscuits nearby(or other indulgent snack) and the TV remote and puts 'evening chills' and it does.my.sodding.head.in.
I sound so intolerant don't I?
Also whenever she takes her kids to get their hair cut she always writes 'fresh trims'
Ahhhhh
I've unfollowed her now!

Just seen "learning kerb" on another thread

New one on a work forum today: 'fresh hold' instead of 'threshold' 🤦‍♀️

I see ‘I’m bias’ rather than ‘I’m biasED’ so often I’m starting to wonder if it’s me that’s got it wrong all this time.

‘I am bias’ seems to have become very common these days and it really irritates me.

Also these days everyone young seems to say ‘that’s so cringe’ as though cringe is an adjective. Whereas I grew up hearing cringe used as a verb. You cringe at something, the thing itself is not cringe, it’s cringey.

Another one, imported from America I think, is craving for something.

I’m craving for a glass of wine.

No. It’s simply ‘I’m craving a glass of wine.’ The ‘for’ is superfluous.

@WhereShallWeMoveTo glad it’s not just me!

Learning kerb was hilarious. The poster was absolutely adamant that where she lived it was correct and common usage. 😂

Marley the starting a sentence with ‘so...’ thing has come from nowhere in the last five years or so. Almost always people under 30 doing it too, but like that Aussie upward inflection thing that started in the noughties with kids, it’s starting to rub off on older people now..

My theory is it’s something to do with university. It’s something you hear academics and lecturers use a lot when answering questions and explaining their research findings. I think young people have subconsciously started to mimic this, especially if they watch a lot of online lectures from the USA.

I’m 50 and I literally never remember hearing it until around seven years ago. Now it’s practically at epidemic levels.

@WhereShallWeMoveTo that's interesting, it is definitely younger people saying it. And the inflection thing too. When I hear it I want to go Noooo!!

I saw ‘mind field’ on Facebook the other day
& someone was ‘high rate’ 🙄

someone was ‘high rate’

Please tell me that isn't meant to be "irate".
Please tell me I'm wrong.
I can't possibly imagine what else "high rate" could be.

the starting a sentence with ‘so...’ thing has come from nowhere in the last five years or so.

There are a heck of a lot of Mumsnet threads which being with
So... blah blah blah.... All good.
Then they go on to explain what else happened which wasn't "All good".
"All good" drives me mad as well. Where did that come from?

I received a note recently from a teacher acknowledging a change of sir name

They teach English and Drama

@helberg all good, yes very irritating!