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.

Is "bed education" the posh way of saying "bad education"? 😉

Nowt wrong wi' dialect! We should treasure these regional quirks.

@Beachtastic my mistake is obviously a typo!!! it is bad education!!

Agree, is dialect, completely different. Let's keep dialect but maintain standards in written English please.

I know, I just thought it might convey the pronunciation 😆

Always the get out clause for rubbish grammar and spelling.

@AlertCat one which really annoys me is the word "anyways" "anyway" is the grammatically correct word and "anyways" is just becoming used more by people who do not seem to know any better.

Spatter is the correct term as used in forensics. But splatter is more fun to say.

It is local, I guess, although I grew up within 20 miles of here too and nobody I grew up with or knew as local adults while I was growing up spoke in that way. I don’t know anyone else who uses that particular dialect!

@AlertCat do you mean local as only their family? you didnt know anyone else who spoke like that!

https://formalverse.com/2020/10/17/odd-poems-tennyson-dialect-verse-the-northern-farmer-old-style-and-new-style/

"English" does tend to sneak sounds in sometimes.

Passenger.

My exMIL used to say "thysioferapist" which drove me up the wall! And pronounced chiropodist with a "ch" sound like Church at the start.

Also the woman who named her daughter "Bethany" spelt it like that when written down and proceeded to call her "Befany". It could be a local thing to pronounce a "th" like an "fuh" though so maybe I'm being too pedantic in my criticism

It is a bit odd to give your child a name you can't say, though. A friend of mine has a strong lisp and all her kids ' names start with an "S" 😀

Welease Wodewick,

@Beachtastic I don’t think she realised what she was saying tbh. She was a lovely lady but away with the fairies half the time!

Haven’t read the full thread so this may have been mentioned already.
“I also heard that too”.
Seems to have become popular around here recently.

I only know its usage from this particular family. I wonder if they have antecedents from elsewhere who maybe brought that particular dialect with them to this place- my own Welsh ancestry brought dialects into my language growing up (things like “it’s by there” and “where’s it to?”) which aren’t used at all in the place I grew up. I don’t know because I was only with him for about 3 years, so I never got to the stage of being able to ask about it!

Reminds me of ‘Gavin and Stacey’ 😂

I knew a woman who named her daughter Melanie, but pronounced it “Menanie”. In her defence, she was illiterate so didn’t get any clues from seeing it written down.

Anthony Burgess's book A Mouthful of Air is a fascinating history of English dialect and how the words and syntax were shaped by successive invasions and cross-fertilisation by other languages and cultures, in the centuries where people didn't stray far from their local area.

It could be a local thing to pronounce a "th" like an "fuh" though so maybe I'm being too pedantic in my criticism

Typical Sarf East. Sumfink, nuffink, anyfink.

Has anyone seen this?
Map of SE England with phonetic spelling, to help Polish airmen stationed there during the war : r/MapPorn
Phonetic spelling for Poles, that is.
It has Saufend on Sji, Greiz Ferek and Noflit, among other places.

My DH, now in his 60's was brought up to say (or maybe never corrected)
Hospical instead of Hospital.
Rather instead of either.
Beberley instead of Beverley.

And his siblings too!
Drives me mad, because I go to "hospical" quite regularly.

I once pulled up someone talking about "a million and a half people" to ask what constituted half a person.

Blank stare.

I had to write down the numbers 1,500,000 and 1,000,000.5 and ask which one they meant, then ask what they thought the other one was.

There is a woman on a current thread who keeps on saying diner instead of dinner. She is spouting all kinds of nonsense as well

Christ and I thought I was pedantic!