To point out that it’s sliver, not slither

[Priminister]

Sliver is a small slice of something.

Slither is what a snake does.

’I had a sliver of cake’, not ‘I had a slither of cake’.

’It’s a sliver of land’, not ‘It’s a slither of land’.

Yawn.

You haven't tried my cakes!

Funnily enough, I did previously post it in Pedants’ Corner!

I also find it FAR more annoying when people post in AIBU and blatantly say it’s for traffic without having an actual AIBU but here we are.

Then why the need to bore us all and post it again?

Because this is AIBU and apparently we can post whatever we like?

I’m going to make the bold assumption that you’re only posting on a higher traffic board because your original post didn’t get enough of a reaction since (shock horror) nobody cares.

I care. Keep posting OP.

😂😂

Oops typo!

The earth was definitely slithering walking home from the pub on Saturday night. I only went over a sliver of land though unless all the land was slivering whilst slithering. Can something sliver before becoming a sliver or maybe excessive slithering creates slivers.
It's very rare you lose understanding of the sentence if the wrong one is used, so it really doesn't matter.

In February. Only then, you'd seen it in a book.

Do you have some kind of obsession with the word?

No, because you're posting for traffic.

Averse vs adverse

people saying “I’m not adverse to…”

🤦🏻‍♀️

Yes! Honestly, it’s all I think about. Well, that and the lyrics for Living on a Prayer and 99 in the shade.

Me either! And I am usually a bit of a pedant. So I fully appreciate being told this.

SLIVER not SILVER

as some people write, confusing!

Hmmm..

I’m quoting this again because I find it astonishing that someone would refuse to post on MN due to spag threads rather than the rampant racism, ageism, ablism and classist threads which are allowed to run unchecked.

Well this thread escalated quickly!

😂😂OP, are you bored like me?! You seem to really want this thread to pick up.

Because people can be really self conscious about it. My mum was dragged up, barely in the same school for longer than 5 minutes. Her spelling, grammar and handwriting was terrible. She didn't take part in many things she would have enjoyed because she was worried about making a mistake and people thinking she was thick. Correcting grammar uninvited, on a bloody forum of all places, is such a dick move.

Can I borrow you some advise? Just keep in mine that, for all intensive purposes, this is a moo point and, at the risk of becoming an escape goat, we're all on tender hooks but I could care less.

Neither are words I use often. I tend to stay away from snakes and I eat huge wedges of things like cake. 😂

@stressedespresso stressedespresso · Today 21:09
do you have a bad case of mastitis?? or does this post just get on your tits??? 😆