To point out that the word is “faze” and not “phase” in this context?

[Anyotherdude]

I’ve been reading so many threads where someone writes about being “phased” or “not phased” about something.
it was bothering me so much that I checked to see if it was me that was getting it wrong.
I didn’t.
To faze is to disturb, bother, or embarrass, but a phase is a stage or step, so you can be phased into a role, but if you’re not bothered by something, it doesn’t faze you!

While I'm here, can anyone tell me when "off of" became a thing? I'm even seeing it on tv cc English translations. eg "Get off of me!"

I would have seen it that way too, except she very seriously estimated that there are only a couple of dozen people who can spell better than her on MN.

Scratch beneath the surface of any spag pedant’s pedantry and you usually find that they think they’re superior.

To be fair, curb is the American version so it’s not wrong, but should only really be used if you are prepared to also say “sidewalk”, “trash can”, “mail box” and “tire”!

No idea. But it drives me bonkers!

"Bear with me" is correct... It's nothing to do with the animal; bear is also a verb, e.g. to bear children.

Well, presumably before 1965.
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-rolling-stones/get-off-of-my-cloud

Hey, you said on MN, not the world! Looking forward to our non-pedantic meetup 😘

Its been around for ages, certainly from the 70s, but that doesn't make it right.

I absolutely loved that. Made my day. It’s so perfect, it’s hard to imagine a similar wonderfully apt mistake in anything but English.

My all time favourite from here though is ‘devil’s advocaat’. That’s one hell of a drink 😂

Is it a prerequisite of becoming an estate agent that you must be a 22 year old man in overly tight trousers and pointy shoes who is pathologically incapable of using the simple words 'me' and 'you' when talking to clients?

You have literally described every estate agent I have ever met! 😂

MN, the world - it’s all the same for such an amazing speller!

People used to talk in a deliberately comedy way about “Christopher Biggins off of the telly” in the eighties and nineties. It was obviously a parody of how some people actually spoke. Had definitely been around a long time.

Someone else asked about “yous”. This is an interesting one as it’s very regional. It’s very widely used in Central Scotland, has been for hundreds of years. I was taught as a child that it was a marker of lack of education. I still agree with that if the speaker can’t adjust not to use it in formal situations, but I do see now that it is quite a useful indicator of the second person plural (like vous in French or vosotros in Spanish) that does not exist in English. I think it is interesting that English seems to have reintroduced it beyond the areas that always had it in dialect. My theory is that it is more acceptable now to hear dialect spoken on TV. (Also I think Australians use it quite a lot, maybe Neighbours started to spread it?)

It must be, right? I actually find myself saying it now (on the rare occasions that the phrase is appropriate in conversation)

Of course it was deliberate- it’s a malapropism for comedy effect. Otherwise her editor would have picked it up!

There are so many. A women. I was wearing heals. I couldn't breath. Definately. Publically. You will loose the game. Her and I went to the cinema. I refute that. Formally and formerly. Bought and brought. One was bigger then the other. Amount of people.

Thank you for the explanation @CaptainMyCaptain and @MereDintofPandiculation.

I don't think editors necessarily pick up everything, but I am now convinced that it was deliberate. I appreciate your namechange, by the way, which has inspired me not to seek out any news stories about Mr Halliwell...

When I told my old head chef, for the umpteenth time, not to throw mashed potato into my clean washing up water he shouted "All right - don't label the point!"

My post above was especially for @FeralNun.

I love a good eggcorn when it kinda makes sense!

Also, "Has anyone got any spare frogs born for our pond?" - from Nextdoor.com.

It’s not confined to social media. I worked in the charity sector so had the misfortune of having a “commissioner”in the local authority, of our DV service who was a total fuck wit and a self righteous cunt to boot.

She made my working life miserable. Until she e mailed me, one day, and copied all and sundry in to it. She referred to the Attorney General as the eternity’s general, and went on to say that Baroness whatever would be unimpressed.

I had the joyous experience of e mailing her back (and the said all and sundry) to correct her mis spell, and point out that baroness whatever and the eternity general were the same person.

It was a very happy day for me.

myselfs and yourselfs that have assaulted my ears. Is it a prerequisite of becoming an estate agent that you must be a 22 year old man in overly tight trousers and pointy shoes

True, but the best estate agent I ever had (in a selling property way, not the Biblical way) was literally that 😂

Even so it drove me potty how many corrections I had to make to the particulars before they were fit to send out.

DH is keen that I tell you about ‘never battered an eyelid’, heard at work.

Mmm - crispy!

I've done this before on pedants corner

Some of the worst spelling and grammar I see online and on messages is from people 50+