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 think I addressed my post to the wrong person, sorry! You stay where you are, the poster who was querying it should find new work 😂

When DH can't find something he says it's 'a-missing' Drives me mad.

My postcode has an aitch in the second section. When I give it over the 'phone, the only people who repeat that part back are the ones who say haitch.

Ambivalent appears the be used incorrectly 98% of the time.

It doesn't mean you don't care.

*to be

You stay where you are, the poster who was querying it should find new work

😂😂😂

Yay!! I'm glad to hear I can stay!

What on earth do you mean?

This is a random one, my mum cannot pronounce the word certificate, she pronounces it cert e fick it.

Like myself cannot like be more like Pacific about like some Pacific words myself has used here myself

@Goldijobsandthe3bears - bottle

@EarringsandLipstick - the letter is pronounced 'aitch', some people say haitch.

No. No it isn't.

As per previous posts, and many (many!) MN threads on this it depends where you are from.

I'm Irish. We say 'haitch'.

My question was: what point were you trying to make by saying that only people who repeat your post code say 'haitch'. Like they are thick or something? Or are you making another point?

That's what I didn't get - what point you were making.

The letter is pronnounced haitch.
Some people say aitch.
You say po-tay-to I say po-ta-to

Seriously 🤦🏻‍♀️

It's not in all cases.

In Ireland, where we speak English, we say the letter as 'haitch'. If we say our ABCs, the 8th letter of the alphabet is pronounced 'haitch'.

It is exactly like your potato example, except that confirms my point and not yours.

Bloody hell me too. Every time!

@EarringsandLipstick I was illustrating the same point as you?

Read my post again....

Ive noticed especially on reality shows a lot of people say generally when they mean genuinely. Ie I really generally mean it.

It really annoys me!

But the letter isn't pronounced 'aitch' or 'haitch' Margot in all cases?

You said: The letter is pronnounced haitch.
Some people say aitch.

I realise I got it back to front, sorry (you said it's pronounced 'haitch' I misread), but my wider point remains: in Ireland we say 'haitch'; but in most of the UK, not all, it's 'aitch'

So the point is it's 'haitch' or 'aitch' depending on where you live?

That was my point, that it completely depends on where you live and who you are talking to. I say it THIS way, others say it THAT way. The " other way" changes depending on who you ask.It's all about perspective. That was my only point.

Ok, sorry! It wasn't clear from how you phrased it.

I'd say - the letter H can be pronounced 'aitch' or 'haitch', it seemed from how you wrote it you were expressing a view it was one way or the other, not both.

No problem, let's call the whole thing off 😉

My DH loathes 'excited for' as in 'I'm so excited for the party on Saturday.'

I'm with him. Does he also hate "I'm sorry for your loss"? If you're sorry for something, you pity it. It should be "sorry about".

I genuinely never knew that people pronounce H as aitch and it's making so much sense to me now. I thought it was a regional thing where people dropped their Hs while speaking eg 'Arry and 'appy birthday etc.