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?

How embarassing for you. And you can't even delete posts on MN.

Honestly, these threads are the worst - just an excuse to complain about different dialects or accents, or people who haven't had the educational opportunities the poster has.

This.

Plus those who pronounce H as haitch.
Say 'bless me' when they sneeze.
Say 'I need to itch it' instead of scratch it.
Say reach instead of retch.
Pooly instead of poorly.

Gotten drives me mad!

Alot. Why on earth do people think this is a word?

I say samwidge too (when I'm not saying sarnie )

Also Wensdie and Febyurrie

And I say tongue to rhyme with song, because I'm a midlander who grew up singing Isaac Watts

When I'm discussing the shopping I say vegetables as if it were forgettables with a hard f, which drives H up the wall.

@merryhouse I knew you were a midlander before you confirmed it, just by reading the first part of your post

Lickle??

Acceptable only if your DH is still at pre-school age.

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

See also: a red lip or similar.

Really? Just the one? Grrrr.

I personally hate it when someone is showing something to me and they say 'And here you've got your [for example] speedometer and your gearstick' and I'm thinking, 'Well, they aren't mine, are they? Because I haven't bought the car yet' or whatever. Drives me mad.

I hate lots of these. Should of, I seen, etc etc NRTFT but also hate X will likely happen instead of X will probably happen; a colleague who will describe his social life as morbid every week when I'm pretty sure he means moribund. He isn't a goth.

@Georgyporky you would hate to live here where locally it is pronounced"itch" rather than"aitch" so that section of the alphabet is pronounced itch, eye, jiy (to rhyme with eye)....

Honestly, these threads are the worst - just an excuse to complain about different dialects or accents, or people who haven't had the educational opportunities the poster has.*

Most of us are quite aware of regional dialects and pronunciation. Using a word incorrectly is entirely different. My pet hate is people who write 'myself' and 'yourself' instead of 'me' and 'you.' They wouldn't say it. They'd say 'please pass the butter to me,' not 'please pass the butter to myself,' so why does they type 'please address any queries to myself' in emails? It's bugger all to do with regional differences, it's just plain wrong, and sound ridiculous too.

Why do they type!
That was a typo, honest!

Maybe I need to write to the publishers of the academic text my students are using and tell them they are wrong with their use of "likely".

Or, maybe not.

As ever, these threads turn into nasty, spiteful, smug backslapping between people whose knowledge of the English language is rarely as good as they seem to think.

The ignorance about aitch/haitch (look up northern Irish sectarianism and shibboleths) the ignorance about the origins of the English language (look up "gotten") etc etc.

Good to see our old mate Muphry is alive and well though. From the OP onwards.

Good to see our old mate Muphry is alive and well though. From the OP onwards.

Is that old Micheal Muphry?

Somebody Bangsund I think was the originator of the term. Bangshund or Bangsund. Possibly Australian.

Agree on 'mis-CHEE-vi-ous' - it sets my teeth on edge. As heard in this song around 48 seconds in:
The Noisettes - Never Forget You

The Speaker of the HoC tweeted 'Myself and...' the other day.

I am assuming a staff member was assigned to write the tweet because otherwise all hope is now lost.

@PAFMO I had to look up Muphry's law. Very appropriate and guilty as charged. Twice! 😅

I keep seeing and hearing adverse misused when they mean averse - as in "I ma not averse to it"

Also misnomer seems to have been adapted to mean something is incorrect rather than incorrectly named.

Some twats (I see this on here a lot) reverse the meaning or worse and worst too.

Depends where the speaker is from.

It's perfectly normal/acceptable in Ireland for a start.

When it's just poor speech (south east for example) then I don't like it.

I saw a communication from work yesterday about shoplifters that asked us all to remain 'vigilante'.
Errrm... I don't think that's really what they want!

This.

Presumably the person responsible for writing this memo is responsible for making sure employees remain vigilant. Seems reasonable to expect them to be able to spell the word.

I used to listen to a true crime podcast in which the presenter was constantly talking about "henious" crimes. I wouldn't normally be overly bothered by this, but his entire output involved "heinous" crimes, so I definitely judged his ignorance.

I think you should find a new line of work

Makes plenty of sense to me & use our daily so I'm happy where I am thanks 😀

As ever, these threads turn into nasty, spiteful, smug backslapping between people whose knowledge of the English language is rarely as good as they seem to think.

The ignorance about aitch/haitch (look up northern Irish sectarianism and shibboleths) the ignorance about the origins of the English language (look up "gotten") etc etc.

👏👏👏

Well said, couldn't agree more.

Yes, there are loads of things people get 'wrong'. And I get mildly irritated perhaps. But I keep it to myself. Some are regional variations which might be technically wrong but universally used in that area eg parts of Dublin / north west / north of Ireland all say 'I done' or 'I seen'. It may be 'wrong' but it's also a reflection of how the language is used in that area.

What does bockle even mean?