Am I the only one who wound up by this!

[Mummytotwogirls01]

I know I probably am BU but it really winds me up how people use 'brought' instead of 'bought' -the verb to bring and to buy are completely different and have different meanings it's not hard to use the right one!!
The other one that really winds me up is how a lot of people use' I should of' instead of 'I should have' -of is not a replacement for have it's just wrong!
Is it just me? What other common errors annoy you?

@Mummytotwogirls01

Sorry if I offended anyone by this thread - it's just you have to be able to write in standard English to pass GCSE English and you're not supposed to be able to leave school until you are passed your GCSE year! I'm sure I make grammatical errors and am not claiming grammatical superiority I was making a comment on some errors which annoy me -I think it is because people on these sites are more prone to writing conversationally as opposed to correctly! X

and you're not supposed to be able to leave school until you are passed your GCSE year!

Do you mean 'past' by any chance?

@Mummytotwogirls01

Sorry if I offended anyone by this thread - it's just you have to be able to write in standard English to pass GCSE English and you're not supposed to be able to leave school until you are passed your GCSE year! I'm sure I make grammatical errors and am not claiming grammatical superiority I was making a comment on some errors which annoy me -I think it is because people on these sites are more prone to writing conversationally as opposed to correctly! X

Where did you hear people can't leave school until the pass GCSE? If that was the case you would have been in their 40s sitting with teenagers in the local secondary school.

All of those things piss me off. A friend of mine uses all, but the one she gets wrong most of all is they're/there/their. For example, she'll say "there alright" when she means they're.

@TonkaTruckduck

The thing that annoys me most is myself used incorrectly e.g "fill the form in and return it to myself". Makes the users sounds absolutely stupid, but they think they sound very clever.

I detest the use of 'fill out' a form, we filled in forms for decades, when did we start to fill in forms? That's my only contribution to this thread or I would be here all night!

[quote MintyFreshBreath]@CeleriacOfTheNight Can I point out the irony of misspelling Murphy 😂

I hate it when people get they’re/there/their wrong[/quote]
@MintyFreshBreath Unfortunately, no you can't.

I’m sure you’re pernickety about something seemingly trivial too

I don't like grammar/spelling snobbishness, maybe that is pernickety @pictish

This always makes me chortle

Any use of ‘at the minute’, instead of saying ‘at the moment’.

I feel irrationally rage filled at the mere utterance.

It annoys me but even the finance director at my work says 'should of' in emails. I once pointed this out in a letter template to my boss not knowing her boss had written it 🤦🏻‍♀️

Loads of the examples given here are just regional variations. The 'brought/bought' thing is weird, though . . . how can people not know the difference. 'Would of' at least is because that's what it sounds like.

Loose v lose
Bear v bare
"Discusting"
Don't rather than doesn't, "he don't like that"

So many!

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "least worst" yet.

@BadLad

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "least worst" yet.

Oh fuck, I use that a lot. Educate me, what’s wrong with it? I find I it a very useful description of when you technically have choices, but none of them are good. Which is happening to me a lot at the moment. (No sarcasm, I genuinely want to know)

Also, when a pair of things are merged into one word to describe them both or a cross between them. Like ‘greige’ or ‘bootility room’ I can just about forgive it in these examples, because they are combined, although it annoys me, but when it refers to two properly separate actual things or even worse, people, it’s just awful. ‘Jedward’ for example.

It's a double superlative. It should be "least bad".

[quote Mummytotwogirls01]@HundredMilesAnHour -i agree - this is another one 'she learned me' ahhhh learned is a passive verb you learn she taught! 'Can I lend a pen' to lend is an active verb - 'can I borrow a pen' or 'can you lend me a pen'!! [/quote]
Verbs themselves are neither active or passive. It’s the order and way they are used in a sentence that determines whether it’s an active or passive voice.
Katie broke the door - active
The door was broken by Katie - passive

My peeve is loose instead of lose.

I’m a teacher and once sat through a presentation by an educational consultant who constantly used ‘pacific’ instead of ‘specific’

“Went” instead of “gone”, e.g “I have went…”

I only ever see this on here, and I see it a lot! It drives me mad as I just don’t get why so many MN posters use this phrase. It’s wrong (unless I’ve missed an update!).

@BadLad

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "least worst" yet.

That's become an established phrase, it's even got dictionary entries. Maybe it originated by extension from 'worst case'?

According to this, so does "leastest"

public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-june-2018/

"ain't" is also in dictionaries.

Would of/Could of etc is easy to understand though. Would've/Could've sound like Would of etc so if a person has only really hear those words, its understandable that they may get them wrong.

The problem with this is that it's difficult to believe someone has gone through 11 years of education without that error ever being corrected.

@labyrinthlaziness

None of it winds me up.

I personally think pedants have issues that are best discussed with therapists, they are either judgemental or have perfectionist tendencies, neither of which are healthy.

This is a response often seen on MN which is peculiar to this issue alone. It always astonishes me how people feel it is acceptable to be really rude about someone's hygiene, manners, housekeeping, driving, cooking, diet, the way they bring up their children, etc - but dare to suggest that you struggle to understand what someone has written due to poor grammar and you get a combination of this type of passive aggression and a general pile-on.

Anybody "struggling to understand" what a Mumsnetter means if they write "should of" has a bigger problem than the user of "should of" will ever have, in fairness.

I know what it means but it still jars my eyes and my inner narrative.

but dare to suggest that you struggle to understand what someone has written due to poor grammar and you get a combination of this type of passive aggression and a general pile-on.

If someone genuinely doesn’t understand that’s one thing, but the vast majority of that time on here it’s very obvious what someone means.

It’s just an opportunity taken by many to be nasty for the sake of it.

I will never, ever forget the names of several posters, quite a few long term established posters, feigning confusion when a woman (who’s husband had turned properly nasty to her) posted about her concerns that her deposit wasn’t protected when they “brought” her house. It was perfectly obvious, as it often is, what she meant yet some on here took the chance to post bollocks such as “I’m confused, where did you bring your house?”

Genuine confusion isn’t the issue. It’s the gleeful spite that so many have because it’s an opportunity to make themselves look better educated and more intelligent than someone else.

I interrupt myself to say HAVE…it’s ‘should HAVE’.

Same with “I’m going to try and sleep now.”
TO. You’re going to try TO sleep now.

“I’m fed up of rain.”
WITH. You’re fed up WITH rain.

There are loads of these and it’s beyond my power not to notice and go ugh. I never mention it, I’m not a dick…but they register whether I want them to or not.