To use the wrong word

[Feckingfeck]

DM has always said "air licked" instead or air brushed for photos. DF says "Mourinio wool and Mourino glass"

Using "c" instead of "tt" such as licle not little absolutely drives me mad.

What word faux pas are you or others around you guilty of?

AIBU to think its not that hard to use the correct word for things?

it's the correct word, just a variation of stanch. Staunch is used in english healthcare, so the surgeon was correct!

I saw this brand name and thought the same. Luckily the youngest is 6 so I won’t be faced with this in reality, but no way could I walk around with a pram proclaiming “ickle bubba”. Even if it was the nicest pram in the world.

I have also seen posts on MN referring to a “Shnuggle” 😱

Reaching out rather than "talking to" or "contacting".

@Mamette We have the baby AND toddler Shnuggle baths. The name makes me feel a bit weird, in a 'did they really have to?' sort of way, but they are undeniably good baths 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hospickle..... 😡Drives me insane😤

People who use:
defiantly instead of definitely
ect instead of etc
'rented out....' Nope, it's let
'borrowed it to someone' instead of lent

Arks instead of ask😕

Round my way people say sangwich for sandwich. It really grates on me for some reason!

people keep saying 'infamous' to mean 'very famous' and it's driving me crackers.

When people say generally instead of genuinely it makes me cringe

Pacific instead of specific

Refuge when they mean refuse

And when they say
"I done the dinner/ done the cleaning/ done the kids baths

"We was at the zoo/ we was at the beach.." instead of were

'If you need further information, contact myself.'
Frequently seen in emails and it makes my teeth itch.

'....contact me' !!!

A really common one seems to be mixing up infer and imply.
I was watching early Breaking Bad episodes the other day and one of the characters REPEATEDLY used infer incorrectly. I wanted to throw something at the telly. How many people saw it written incorrectly before it was passed to the actor who learned the line, presumably did read throughs or whatever they are called, then filmed the scene and NOONE noticed???

Now that I've written it down I'm wondering maybe if it was done on purpose......🤔

I've never heard that, can you give an example, I can't really think of how the two words might be mixed up. Are you sure it's not a regional accent thing?

People literally using literally when they literally don’t bloody need to like they literally don’t understand at all what it means. And then pronouncing it litterly just to pound the ignorance home

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Supernanny can't say acceptable! She always says asseptable with a soft s sound instead of a hard ck. Drives me mad!
Also agree that hospickle, ickle etc grate on me, but I realise it's a regional thing.

I tend to be less judgemental when encountering irritating mis-uses in everyday life, but I get cross when professional broadcasters or print journalists do it. Some annoying ones for me are 'nucular' instead of 'nuclear'. It's the adjective from the noun 'nucleus', so how could it be 'nucular'???? Also, 'fu'fulled, fu'filling 'with the 'l' missed out for some reason?? I heard this from a scientist on R4 yesterday.

Not quite the same but so many people with no excuse get 'infer' and 'imply' wrong. Infer means you yourself deduce something from a situation (eg I inferred from his comments that he liked my work) and imply means that someone else is suggesting something (eg she implied that it was not her responsibility). Not bothered from friends and acquaintances but you hear this on the media too.

I once worked with a teacher who said 'somefink, anyfink' and while I realise people have individual accents, this woman was responsible for teaching little children phonics. She could have made the effort to make the right sounds for their sake. And as a teacher (or actor, broadcaster etc) you have a professional duty, I think, to be self-aware and not to say 'Oh - I didn't realise I do that' - it's not an excuse if you are working with words. I'm not criticising regional accents, just lazy speech which is a different issue.

I cringe when I see these prams. I can't believe they even got on the market with s name brand like that.

The way in which ‘myself’ is used in place of ‘me’ to try and sound more intelligent, which inevitably makes them sound less so.

I can’t believe we’re on the second page and nobody has said the common misuse of draws instead of drawers.

Oh yes. I have heard people say "lend" when they mean borrow, as in "Can I lend your pen"

Also saying "belong" when they mean "own", as in "He belongs that tile shop" instead of "He owns that tile shop"

I used to work with a woman who was extremely posh, public school educated but was completely thick. She used to say Pacific instead of specific. She also used to throw random big words into sentences, completely out of context. Lovely person though so I couldn't get too mad with her!

Often comments on posts saying 'discusting' instead of disgusting. And the should of would of could of grates on me too...

Bathroom instead of toilets. I told dd there needs to be a bath to be a bathroom. Her teacher told her off for saying toilets. Didn't know Canadians in the UK were as prissy as Americans.