Things that people say wrongly....but they're too old to be corrected

[Moomin8]

When I was about 18 I had a boyfriend who used to call Valentine's Day 'Valentimes ' day.

[Livpool]

My late DGM just to say 'erotic' when she meant 'exotic'. No one ever corrected her as we would have had to explain what 'erotic' meant.

She didn't like erotic food 😂😂😂

[Carpathian2]

My neighbour claims university credit and says worser. I don't correct her, but it quietly gives me the rage.

[PaulRobinsonsWoodenLeg]

DH calls a reservoir a resevwire and it drives me mad. We live near one so he says it regularly.

DF is adamant that Oprah Winfrey is pronounced Oh-fra Winfrey.

[kerkyra]

My ex would say mirrow instead of mirror. It drove me mad.

[CanYouSay]

Pronouncing the d in 'blood' as sounding like a t. So for a blood test it sounds like bloodt test.

[mathanxiety]

Bias instead of biased.
'I'm bias' (grrrr).

[youvegottobekidding]

My mum says ‘prutty’ instead of pretty. ‘Trinkle’ instead of ‘treacle’. ‘Thee-at-turr’ instead of theatre. She’s late 70’s and has always pronounced these words like this. I actually use to say trinkle for a long time when I was little. Still can not correct mum on any of them though!

[Moomin8]

Wrongly is definitely a word. Someone always has to be a clever dick on these threads 😂🙄

Anyway, I guess I started the thread with words that really don't exist but people have obviously gone through their lives not knowing. Like valentimes 😂

[katseyes7]

Gonetoget l'm in West Yorkshire, and kekkle and bockle are used here. Along with 'ospickle.

[Rickytickytembo]

Ironically, I don't think 'wrongly' in your title is used correctly? I'd say incorrectly' instead of 'wrongly'. Not sure wrongly is a word?

[managedmis]

Trickle treating was a good one I heard recently

[managedmis]

Years ago l went to a Weightwatchers class. The class leader used the word "pluffmans" (ploughman's!) several times when talking about eating out choices.
We all sat there looking at our feet.
^

[mathanxiety]

Singular for single.

[Moomin8]

I agree, @mathanxiety about 'enormity'

[MarthasGinYard]

I've got a cousin who

Puts things 'on a peddle stool'

😩

[gettingalife]

Oh and when people say 'myself' in the wrong way, eg: "John and myself will be looking at that" Rage rage rage!

[gettingalife]

My DH used to always say custificate for certificate. But the one that caused me most rage was skelenton. Aarrghh! And hurst for hearse. Double aaarrgghhhh!!

[mathanxiety]

The use of 'enormity' to mean great size continues to be regarded as non-standard, according to many usage notes, and to me.

'Usage' is another interesting clanger.

[omikron]

Any hyper-correction is annoying because invariably the sayer says it with such conviction and tends to believe everyone who is using 'me' correctly is actually wrong!

[Moomin8]

Wrong use of 'I' really irritates me. How can people not hear that it's wrong?

[SoupDragon]

Now because the meaning has shifted to relate it to the word enormous, an adjective

Chambers gives definitions for the adjective and lists them as "archaic" which implies it's been an adjective for a very long time.

[mathanxiety]

SunshineAngel no, they have never read a book.

[mathanxiety]

MongerTruffle only if you have a non-rhotic accent.

[mathanxiety]

That particular example stemmed from people trying too hard and simply getting a longish word wrong.

Another example of getting it wrong is use of 'I' instead of 'me'.
"They invited the kids and I to the picnic.'

Hopefully in that case getting it wrong won't by force of sheer numbers cause it to end up the same as 'enormity', because it's everywhere. Even Barack Obama wasn't immune.

[MongerTruffle]

Farther instead of father
Surely they're homophones?