Eachother is not a word!

[LaPerduta]

These are not words either:

Inbetween
Infront
Alot
Loosing (unless you're loosing the hounds)
Non

Call me unreasonable if you like...

Got? What's wrong with "got" - it's just a regular word!
My son says "gotten" - I've given up on that and I blame it on overexposure to American media
What makes me want to scream is "on Christmas" or "on the weekend" .Noooooo - you don't do things on Christmas, on Christmas Day or at Christmas.Or at the weekend.
I thinks that's just a sign that I am old,sadly.

oh dear

The smorning 🤯

Oops!! I think you need to look again at this. @Thisismeyeah was being tongue in cheek, as are many other people on here.

All of the things mentioned so far absolutely irritate the hell out of me. They are absolute butchery of the language and make people look so stupid.

In Scotland outwith IS a word eg they live outwith the catchment area. Means out of.

It's one of those extra words - 'I've got 6 apples' in full, that would be I have got 6 apples; the got is unnecessary. But gotten is because os US influence. Being used in tv programmes where it would noy be used in that context (and because they are English programmes!)

using also and in the same sentence Is another unnecessary

It could be our age as you say! People don't seem to care about grammar and punctuation these days

This is the only bit of this full thread I disagree with. I have a huge issue with people who don’t hyphenate when they should. For example when they are joining two words to form a compound adjective. This is the difference between a sentence making sense and otherwise.

her first-born child
the world-class athlete
that award-winning film
the second-rate actor
those locally-grown apples

Led. No led is not a word. Led in bed. No. Just no.
neither is chestadraws.

@FullaSpjäll fair enough but what I’m saying, is that it is another one of these things that people say that are quite annoying because it literally makes no sense and yet it’s something you hear often just like all the rest of these words.

I can understand genuinely not knowing the difference however when you try to explain the issue with the whole sentence, they refuse to accept there is anything wrong with it because “that’s what their teacher learnt them in school!”

@marshmallowsforbreakfast
Or the other version 'She borrowed me £10' nope, she loaned/lent you it. Sometimes I read these comments and am clueless to whom borrowed/lent to who🤷🏼‍♀️

Less instead of fewer.
On Sweet!
Chaiselounge
Can I get instead of Can I have
And loads of people saying “ Perfect, ideal” etc at my till!

Can't say it bothers myself

'Bare' with me seems to have replaced 'bear' with me! I'm not getting naked with anyone except my partner, thank you very much!

thankyou for explaining. I dont no what id of done without youre wise imputt.

@Thisismeyeah 🤦🏽‍♀️

FFS it’s not bullying to say that grammar/spelling standards seem to be slipping (as per a pp) - it’s fact. I’m sure most people who spell badly on Facebook groups haven’t had strokes.

@PeriwinkleForever, absolutely agree with you and the missing hyphens in compound adjectives bother me too.

But, I disagree with 'locally-grown apples'. This does not require a hyphen. The -ly ending of the adverb already does the job of modifying the noun so a hyphen is not necessary. It should be 'locally grown apples'.

That's the one I see and hear most. Myself and yourself being used rather than me and you. Very irritating.

Gotten is an old English word, but presumably the recent resurgence is due to American TV.

"Free Reign" anyone? (It refers to horses not monarchs!)

I’m Scottish. No, it is not. It is still very much not a word. It only really seems to be used by the ill educated or by ‘Ned’s’ and that doesn’t make it a word.

Can I have?
You mean, May I have?

They don't cause that sort of error, and it's quite offensive to suggest that they do.

Oh and "please bare with me" (if you say so.....)

And there have understandably been a lot of social media posts about the headteacher who tragically committed suicide recently, but the regulatory body is OFSTED not OFSTEAD (it stands for Office For STandards in EDucation).

Good spot @CoffeeChocolateWine my kindred spirit! Can you tell I was just lying in bed randomly trying to think of a last example for the list!?

thanks for catching that one. I’ll now be beating myself up all day about that - the shame 🤣

Oh, that is actually interesting. There are a lot of words which have totally changed because of this happening. I can’t remember lots of them without looking it up but I think one is apron.

The word was actually napron. A napron. Gradually. A long time ago. It changed from a napron to an apron and now we all say apron.

There are a lot of those.