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 have only heard this in the US ... and thought it was a genuine word 🥲

Which reminds me, I hate gen-ooin, not genuine 🤮

Sam-widge

To offer another variation 😉

DH will say "I am going to have a packet of crisp"
He does not have any sort of speech impediment he just cba with the extra s.
If he wrote it down he would probably put an apostrophe in just to really annoy me.

Ha, yes do this with “slither” of cake. Cracks me up.

My least fave is Bomfire Night or Bommy Night. Don’t care if it’s regional: it’s stupid.

Me and DP argue over the words:

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and how to pronounce tooth!

My MIL says fruit shot instead of shoot.
Generally instead of genuinely.
Frankfoot instead of frankfurters 😅

I think you all need to get out more

Have not read FT yet so apologies if this has been mentioned...

Westminister instead of Westminster.

I'm sure we'll hear it a few times today.

🤮

I can live with day to day mistakes like this, particularly when they are made by people who clearly aren't well educated.

What really winds me up is the unnecessary over-use of official speak and jargon by people who don't understand what they are actually saying.

Petty officials like low level coppers and council staff do this a lot, I've noticed. They use elaborate, procedural phrases to explain something really simple: "proceed along the courseway" instead of "move down the road". Or "I can assist you in due course" instead of "I'll give you a hand in a minute".

Annoys me when people say flaunting the law rather than flouting it.

Saw a message on a local page where someone mentioned that some fledglings were diseased in their garden. Eventually I realised they meant deceased.

I can get over malapropisms in speech, and mispronunciations but when people are writing professionally (business pages, etc.) then using things like 'should of' and 'pacifically' really jar.

One of my best friends speaks English as a second language and didn’t know the word for “bruise” so said “blue stain” once which I thought was genius and now we always say that.

my eldest used to say “gone-ta-appeared” instead of disappeared so we all say that because it stuck/it was sweet

Saying "haitch" , when the letter "h" is pronounced "aitch".

I'll ignore it usually, but I get angry when it's said by someone on TV who should know better.

MIL:
Topiary as "toe-pie-a TREE"

We do this as a joke 😂

DS when age 4 was told off by his teacher for asking about her brew. He was told they drink cups of tea not brews.

Why are you drinking a hot drink while working anyway 🤨🤨🤨

My husband says minimun instead of minimum.
My brother is always weary of things when he should be wary of them.

Another thing, which will mark me out as a class A ocean going pedant - saying “hung” when talking about a person. It’s hanged. A picture is hung, a person is hanged.

I think you should find a new line of work 😉

Pedants get everywhere I'm afraid, fiveninefive.

I get irritated by misuse of words while I'm actually out. We can't help ourselves.

My pet peeve of the week is using "a jean" instead of "jeans". I don't care if an argument can be made for it being correct or not, it just sounds so pretentious

I've just realised I say sam-wich. 😁

Though I can spell it - it's just an accent thing.

"I could care less"
So you do care a bit then? If there is a state of less caring that you could reach? Is it a threat? Ie "if you're not careful I will care less about you"

In usage it seems to have replaced the much more logical "I couldn't care less" ie "I could not care any less about this subject. I have zero care."

Bothered me for ages.
And obviously "can you borrow me a..." is an abomination.

We was rather than we were. My husband also says ‘can you borrow me a pen?’ Rather than lend me a pen!

In usage it seems to have replaced the much more logical "I couldn't care less" ie "I could not care any less about this subject. I have zero care."

Very true. "I could care less", "The importance of XYZ can't be understated" (when the speaker means "...can't be overstated"), etc. are annoying.

I'd also be interested to know when the logical "You can't eat your cake and have it, too" became the nonsensical "You can't have your cake and eat it".