OK so if expressos are bad, how about prostrate problems and not being pacific enough?!!

[shushpenfold]

....and whilst we're on it, who's been put to sleep by an anaethetist???!!!!

And someone I used to work with used to tell customers we'd been unindated with enquiries. She also asked people what their pacific enquiry was.

Can I lend your pen

"What were going to..."

There are times I hate going into work.

Not a misspelling or mispronunciation, but my favourite ever verbal error was my grandmother, who gravely informed us that she had to cut down on butter in order to lower her libido.

She meant cholesterol

(I know, I know..... it doesn't follow the pattern of this thread at all but it reminded me)

On topic though - people who shouldn't of bothered get my goat.

Mrs Cadwallader, I believe that's a malapropism. A good one too! Love the idea of granny needing to lower her libido...

I have a friend whose little boy calls Robin Hoods bow and arrow a 'boner'

I think you are all making "mute" points.

Our head of HR once sent me an email saying "I seen a photo of..."

And tons of people here get done/did seen/saw mixed up so much so that I am not sure if they realise that is wrong...

i should of done that

i was sat there of a saturday night

birninam

and that one what i saw

much more better

leave a message and i phone you back

i must get to work for 9 o'clock.

(DH uses all of the above...............................AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HH)

Some of you seem to think you are the fountain of all knowledge.

Dear poster who has just posted a thread with this in the title...please don't hate me if you read this

I love this kind of threads, i'm learning so much!

English is not my first language, you see, and some of the words are bloody difficult to pronounce, like sixth, for example, what is that all about?!

Good question CircusFlea

To be honest, sixth is quite hard to say 'properly' and I think a lot of us probably say 'sikth'.

Actually, someone earlier mentioned hambag...Just to be completely pedantic; it's normal that the word gets pronounced thus by a large number of people. The 'nd' in handbag 'anticipates' the following 'b', which is a bilabial sound (made with the two lips), and becomes 'm' (also a bilabial sound).

It's called an error of anticipation in Psycholinguistics and it's not an error, as such, really...sort of inevitable in continuous, spontaneous speech, unless one is being ultra careful. Another one is 'ten pin bowling' which can often be heard as 'tempin bowling in continuous speech, as the 'n' takes on the 'bilabial' quality of the following 'p' and becomes 'm'. They're called speech errors, but they're not really erroneous.

God, I'm boring.

I did find your post interesting, Olifin, even if it killed the thread

It didn't!

I bite my tongue when people say eldest of two, rather than elder of two for example.

Another bete noire is more better, more bigger etc. I forget the technicalities, but know this misuse of comparisons is incorrect.

Hurrah - I'm not alone in pronouncing it 'sikth'

Loud and proud here.

Hmmmm, just wondering if the poster who doesn't like 'fith' and 'sikth' is also meticulous with their pronunciation of 'twelfth'?

I used to work with someone who insisted on saying an otel and would admonish me for saying a hotel. (We worked in a travel agency so it used to crop up quite a lot!) I know he was correct really but I thought he was taking pedantry too far.

OK, that should have been an otel versus a hotel, obviously.

Just thought of another one.....as a keen viewer of 'Come Dine With Me', I've noticed that not just a few, but indeed most contestants seem to think that the popular meringue-and-cream dessert which so often features is called a 'pav-a-lova'.

AAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHH!

Actually most of them don't seem able to pronounce any culinary term, come to think of it.

Well i wish people would just be careful of their entire pronounciation......

I have a cookbook that says "...and after ten minutes in a hot oven, VIOLA a lovely dessert"!

When my sis was little my mum told her off for saying 'bockle' or 'lickle' - she then asked Great Aunty Lily to pass her the 'pittled' onions at a family tea!!
They are still called pittled onions in our. house.

Ooh - can I lend your ruler??
Who the f* do you want to lend it to??
Drives me nuts...

iamamug as bad as:

Can you borrow me your....

My blood pressure is at boiling point after just the first page!

Could of intead of could have........drives me absolutely loopy and so many people do it!

just noticed this thread's really old....

people who go handgliding! (This language of ours really is a mindfield!!!)

It is amazing how many students refer to,'this S.A.'