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?

I must admit though that we sometimes mispronounce words as a joke, but it is a family thing. We wouldn't deliberately do this if anyone else was around.

E.g. "Viola" instead of "voila" and "patio" instead of "patois"

Coughee

I hear that one. South Wales?

Lacksy Daisy instead of lackadaisical. I find it amusing.

@Pinklimey
I remember when I first started school we had a teacher who told us of if we asked to go to the toilet. We were supposed to say "Please may I leave the room." Of course, that teacher left and the next one made sarky comments like "Well ou can't take it with you, say where you want to go". All very confusing for a young child

My MiL says "mungey" instead of money and it drives me mental.

I feel like this, too!

It makes me feel uncomfortable. Awful brand name.

Yep!

A person "Exasperated" a situation rather than exacerbated it.
Have yet to meet a police officer who gets it right -wonder if they all go to the same training!

Oh and "mortified" to mean horrified or shocked rather than embarrassed.

Shall we start an organisation to campaign against this aberration?

It annoys me so much, I swear my blood pressure goes up when I read or hear it. My inner pedant silently screams "Of is not a verb" in a very distracting fashion, and, if written, disrupts my train of thought so badly that I have to go back and re-read the whole paragraph.

I used to feel the same about "different to", but I've kind of learned to live with that, and am working on doing the same with misuse of "less" and "fewer". But I think "would/should of" will rile me till the day I die.

My mum pronounces ‘guacamole’ to rhyme with ‘whack-a-mole’.

'Myself' and 'yourself' instead of 'me' and 'you'.

People who use the word 'ignorant' incorrectly. It's become hugely prevalent recently "I wasn't being ignorant, I just didn't hear the phone ring" - seeming like they actually are ignorant in the process.

It is the perfectly correct use of the word.

Similar to; different from; identical with. I stand with Fowler (of Modern English Usage fame) on this.

Years ago, I had a boss who asked me to write a valedictory letter to a client after we won his tax case. I duly drafted a "goodbye and thanks" letter and was met with absolute silence. He meant "write to say we did ever so well, please pay us more".

Google it. You are incorrect

Different to instead of different from

Oh, and people who do the exceedingly irritating "I think you mean Sophie and I" when you don't, you very much mean "Sophie and me". I used to have a manager who did this and he always looked so smug when he was correcting people - the pleasure I got from outlining why he was wrong when he did it to me was immense.

"I could care less."

Surely it's 'couldn't'?

That's annoyed me since childhood (I was a very literal child).

"He turned round and said, she turned round and said, they sat there and said, he ain't got none."
Apparently, they can't have a conversation standing still and without a double negative.
"literally" in literally every sentence. Also the generally/genuinely thing.

Oh dear, staunch made me laugh, as did the lame backtrack of “lighthearted” 🤣

I used to be po faced about “should of” but I’m much more understanding of it now. Because it’s not random. It should be “have”, of course. But English language relies so heavily on the schwa vowel sound, and f and v are a consonant pair. It’s a logical mistake from a sound point of view.

Not everyone reads and not everyone understands verbs and prepositions. And that’s rarely their fault.

Apologies to anyone who comes on to say they hate people who start a sentence with a conjunction 😉

Lol. In a previous life, I used to have to vet and correct all reports that went before several council committees. One committee chair was even more of a pedant than me, and would have a dig if I'd overlooked any errors of grammar or spelling.

A particularly cocky and up himself senior manager, with whom I'd had many a professional disagreement, once sent a report with a "purpose" on the front page that read "To appraise the committee ....". I highlighted and corrected the error, along with a few other changes, and emailed it pack. When I got the final versions, he'd ignored the change, so I did it myself before sending it to the printers.

On the morning of the meeting, in front of my chief officer, councillors and senior managers, he walked up to me with a face like thunder and said, very loudly, "Lakie, why did you change that back to "apprise"?"

I didn't even look at him as I said, in my plummy voice that carries for a hundred yards, "Because, Dickhead*, I believe you want to inform the committee rather than evaluate it". Committee chair was pissing himself, he couldn't stand the bloke, either.

*I didn't actually call him this, obvs.

When people say apparently when they mean allegedly

Were you working for a local authority in the SE at the time? We may have had the same boss.

The one I worked for also said "tangenital" instead of tangential, which used to crack me up. He was, however, an absolute fucking genius, too, and could explain hideously complex legal matters with a breathtaking degree of clarity, but had a complete absence of common sense.

It's not 'nope', it's no.

Well, obviously 🙄