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

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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.

I’m English and have been a chemist for decades. I can assure you nu-cle-a with 3 syllables is normal here too (I don’t know if the end is more -ah or -ar in a rhotic accentI can hear 3 syllables in both the English and the American on the Cambridge and Collins dictionaries.

Fair enough it might be normal (so is 'could of', normal here, too) but it's incorrect English. That's the point. It also doesn't sound correct either.

I interview candidates regularly and I can’t stand the repeated use of the word ‘like’.

I agree, I don't give a shit how people express themselves on social media as long as I can understand the gist (and spirit) of what they're saying. I'm only bothered about spelling and grammatical errors in publications that are supposed to have gone through various levels of QC.

I thought of another one. The habit of using the word "so" at the start of every sentence. I have noticed tv reporters doing this. The tv anchor will ask the reporter who is reporting live from somewhere a question and the reporter will start "So....". Such as "So the judge said..." instead of "The judge said...." No one seems to be able to answer a question without saying "so" first.

It’s not incorrect, and it most certainly sounds correct if you work in my field where the word is commonly used!

New-clear is ok, way better than nucular anyway.

the hairdresser is called Pablo.

€8 for a man’s haircut, my husband used to go there.

It is incorrect, the dictionary says so! Go here, you can see the pronunciation shown. You can even click on the button to hear the word being said! The Cambridge dictionary says it is incorrect! dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nuclear

Another one that's come to mind as I've just read it on another thread:

If you have two sons, you have an elder son and a younger son. You don't have an eldest and youngest. You can have those only if you have at least three sons.

Agree with PP though, most of this doesn't bother me on social media and I find it interesting seeing how people use language - but expect BBC, published literature, newspapers etc to be correct.

I gathered the hairdresser was Pablo, I was just trying to make sense of the "By"! 🤔😂

Do you hear that as 2 syllables?
Oh well. I think I’ll stick with how people who use the word routinely say it as being ‘correct’. Nu cle us, nu cle ah.

Oh God, I felt terrible when a friend proudly showed me her daughter's bedroom she'd decorated, complete with drawers for her suff which she'd labelled. One of them said "stationary". I pointed it out to her....she seemed ok about it!

Maybe it was a label for the removals company coming later that day 😂

prelovedusername · Yesterday 20:01
Bit niche this one, but renumeration instead of remuneration. You’d be surprised how often it comes up in a particular context

Every day’s a school day on mumsnet! I think I’ve always said ‘renumeration’ so I am glad to be corrected.
The other one is ‘anemone’. I find ‘anenome’ slips off the tongue more easily.

You are placing too much importance on what you have decided is the correct way of writing. MN in an online site, correct grammar isn't needed, it's fine for people to use dialect or abbreviations. There's no correct way of speaking anymore, quite rightly we now accept dialects. You might not, but the rest of us do. Not everyone wants a job that demands what you want.

Eh? I say "clee-uh" for clear and "dee-uh" for dear. I'm not Prince Charles though.

I don't want to see incorrect grammar or mis-spellings on social media either. It's still written English. It's not spoken English, where I think it's fine to accept dialect.

So do I. What’s the issue? Although my neighbours would say clee-rrr and hee-rrr but that’s just where we live.

Then it should say By Pablo or Pablo's

Or "By Pablo's" if there is a nearby shop run by someone called Pablo who for some reason the hairdresser wants to acknowledge when naming his salon!

Ooohhhh, careful with that one. You don't want to make an enemy of an anemone!

oh, i didn’t think of that meaning of By 😂

May have already been mentioned as it’s a common peeve for those among us bothered by such things but why has loose become almost the default spelling for lose (i.e. I’d like to lose weight)?

And amount instead of number

The incorrect use of 'me' and 'I' which should be so simple to get right.

It really is very simple: "Me and my friend went shopping" is WRONG!

If you take the other person out of the sentence, you wouldn't say "Me went shopping" so get it right and say "My friend and I went shopping".

Similarly, it is WRONG to say "They gave some gifts to Dave and I". Again remove the other person and see if it sounds right: "They some gifts to I" is clearly wrong. So it should sbe "They gave some gifts to Dave and me".

I can't believe that BBC presenters have started copying these appalling, basic errors.