Pedants: What "Facts" Have Annoyed You Lately?

[NotQuiteCockney]

I keep going into a nice baker, which has sourdough breads, with a big sign saying they're "yeast free". They're not bloody well yeast free, they just don't have added yeast.

I'm also unduly annoyed by things that are chemical-free, when that expression just doesn't make any sense ...

Make me feel like less of a freak! Share your pedanty annoyances. (No greengrocer's apostrophe stories, please ...)

on that best ever theme, the best a man can get (!)
I love the gillette ads, I think they're up to 5 blades now, wonder what the critical mass of blades will be to make pulling the razor over the face more effort than pulling the face over the razor. Gillette wallpaper anyone?

I am just not Evil enough, NQC.

Oh, my pet hate is "literally".

"The restaurant service was so slow, we were literally starving to death by the time our meal arrived."

Er, I doubt it.

the restaurant service was so slow we literally had to kill & eat the couple at the next table or we would literally have starved to death before the meal arrived..

Annoyed???

About 60% of everything Xenia has ever written on MN - how's that for a start?

What, only 60%?

'Very' unique. ARRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

'over-achiever'.
How? I understand 'under-achiever, but how does one over-achieve?

Times crossword yesterday
sporting item
tennis RACKET FFS
racquet you buffoons I cursed

hm...had to look this one up piffle...but in my dictionary it's Racket in there...must I change my Dictionary?

hmm, Times Style Guide says racket (well, it would, wouldn't it?)

piffle's right

Or is she?
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Maybe it's one of those that are originally spelled one way and then the more fancy version came across the ocean, lol....

well that brings us to the annoying fact of american spelling taking over the world courtesy of microsoft...

lol

NotQuiteCockney I have 2 theories about Xenia...

1 She's an invention by MN HQ - they're having a really good laugh at us behind our backs.

2 She's a deranged old hag living in a Council Flat (no offence to anyone who does but if you've read anything by Xenia you'll understand what I mean) drinking litre bottles of cheap vodka and living out a fantasy existence on MN.

WHY ELSE DOES SHE SPEND SO MUCH TIME ON IT?????

She ought to be partying with her her wealthy friends, not spending 22 hours a day on MN!

anyone else noticed - i bought some plastic beakers from boots to feed dd water in, and on the lid it says 'caution liquid may be hot'. what liquid??? the liquid I am about to fill them with and then immediately forget about?

and now i must also confess my major pedantry which relates to the LINDOR advert which states the product is made 'by their master choclateers'.
Do they mean a) master choclatiers (as in the french and thus pronounced in the correct french way)
or b) the ENGLISH translation of choclatier which is chocolate maker
or c) choclateer, presumably someone who fights with choclate rather than the traditional musket

I know the chocolateers motto-

all for me & none for you! huzzah

please ignore the fact that i just spelled my own pet hate wrong i have been drinking

huzzahhh

Fortyplus, I don't think MNHQ is quite that devious.

She could just be someone who has loads of ££, loads of free time (kids older) and thanks to her charming conversational style, nobody to talk to irl?

I am so glad I never hear or see adverts. Chocalateers would drive me mental. Oh, wait, maybe they're like Mouseketeers? In which case theyre children who dress up as bits of chocolate, parade about on a kid's program, and later grow up to sing rude songs on TV? Is that any better?

I think I like musketeers the best.

(I am unduly bothered by the English pronounciation of "penchant". Pen-chant. Ugh. Oh, and Ypres, which causes huge family rows all the bloody time.)

OH yes - there is a road in a town near us called 'Ypres drive' and it always seems to be pronounced 'wipers' by people. wtf?

Yeah, I lived in a town that had a Ypres street, and it was pronounced "Wipers". I'm pretty sure that's a normal British pronounciation.

(Hey, back home, Provencher is often pronounced pro-venture )

Just seen an advert for a vicks sinex capusule to be administered with H2O! I've heard it all now.