To invite the grammar and language pedants to share their pet peeves?

[AlertCat]

AIBU to feel annoyed when I see people say Slither instead of sliver? It was even in a book I read recently. A slither of cake. No! That makes no sense, unless the cake’s been trodden into the carpet!

Also see: step foot in instead of set foot in

There’s plenty of others but those will do for now.

getting bought and brought mixed up.
Pacific instead of specific
Acrossed instead of across

Well I never! I did not know that.

I like an eggcorn too.

My old head chef had listed "walking fridge" on the cleaning schedule.

My schoolfriend and I would write ham bags instead of handbags and duss bins because, well, it's where you dispose of your duss isn't it.

Ooooh I hate the (mis)use of “myself” and also people saying Pacific instead of specific.

Then use of ‘up’ where it’s either unnecessary or just plain wrong. My kids have started saying ‘search up X’ on the internet. Noooooo, what’s wrong with ‘search FOR?’! And ‘level up’ as a verb, meaning to improve/get better at something. We have at least two words/phrases tor this!! No need for a new one!!

I’m always surprised by how many people seem not to be able to say ‘nuclear’ properly - radio 4 presenter types who should know it’s not ‘newkilla’.

Ha! Love these - someone wrote the other day that they needed ‘duck tape’ 🤣

@AlertCat I really think that many people on mumsnet just didn't go to school!

@AlertCat
Perhaps you should focus on your punctuation.

Maybe they did. Duck Tape is a thing.

I've just remembered that Philomena Cunk used to call Nick Clegg "Mr Leg" 😄

‘Duck tape’ was the original name (as well as still being a brand name) because it was made from ‘cotton duck’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

"A hotel"
"A urine sample"
"Prostrate cancer"
and this is unbelievably petty but did irritate me:

"Cannulas"

Infantalise - to treat like a Spanish princess.

Infantilise - to treat like an infant.

There are a lot of Spanish princesses on Mumsnet.

This!

What's wrong with "a urine sample"?

Begins with a vowel - should be "an urine sample".

Akimbo does not mean in a state of disarray; it means with hands on hips and elbows out.

Bias used instead of biased. For example, "The supporters of that team are bias".

Words can have two meanings...

"(with reference to limbs) flung out widely or haphazardly.
"he collapsed on the bed, legs akimbo""

It doesn't make a vowel sound though. It starts with a 'y' sound, so doesn't count unless I'm supposed to say 'an university', 'an unanimous result' or 'an unicorn'?

There are plenty of areas of this country that use pants instead of trousers.

My pet peeve

"Off their own back" - should be "off their own bat". I think it may originate from cricket? Have heard it a lot lately.

The word literally means twice (bis) cooked (cuit) so I'm afraid you're wrong. We borrowed it from the French but we borrowed it for the correct item, whereas the Americans have borrowed it for the wrong item.