to want to slap people who say LAY down when they mean LIE down?

[UnquietDad]

That's it, really.

When I lived in Lancs I had a big problem with people saying "where is it at?" instead of 'where is it?"

Here is Canada my biggest (anal) language obsession is when my dds say "you're not allowed doing that" - drives me crazy.

BTW is anyone on this thread an esl/ efl teacher - I am .

Oh I know - 'tis a silly language! And, at 3 we can forgive most things
It's the people who are still doing it at 23, 33, 43, ...

why do we have so many words, that mean more than one thing?? did we run out of words??

lie down
lie to tell a fib

lead - metal
lead - in front

Tigerchick, really sorry to hear about your gran Must have come as a bit of a sshock to you all!

However, the whole Haitch and Aitch thing...what was the rule again....it's Aitch if you say it in the alphabet, right, but if it is with a vocal sound like a, e, i, o, u it's haitch....???????????????

Apparently Italians find it hardest to learn English. I was told that by my dad who was a language teacher - so not exactly hard evidence . My sis-in-law used to have an Italian neighbour who used to drop the end of words eg "would you like a cup of coff" instead of coffee.

Though I am sure they speak English better than a lot of English! It's shameful how poor we are at speaking other languages.

off - not of

Not unreasonable as long as you include in your 'need a slapping category' people who don't know how to use the word mortified.

have to laugh at my spanish brother in law, he says anyone for coffee, as anyonefuckoffey

lol law3
another difficult one for spanish people: the long /i:/ sound in "sheets". I say that word very deliberately to make sure I get it right. A Spanish friend of mine got some strange looks at work when she mentioned she had to rush home and take the sh*ts in after it started raining .

My granny is Spanish and as she gets older she finds it harder to pronounce words English words. My dad had to translate the last time we went to see her.

My FIL has started pronouncing "Catholicism" as "Catholickism"

ive been trying to learn some spanish, thats pretty hard with the feminine and masculine, a or e.

The way the sentence is changed around is pretty confusing as well ie dick head - is your head is a dick lol, well obviously im learning all the swear words first

Naturally

lol, let me know if I can help with those