Scream into the pillow of this thread and avoid scorn on others...

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Pedant's refuge: I have to get it out, but not on the threads themselves as I'll get ripped to shreds it's not polite. It's safe here.

Pier pressure

What gems have made your teeth itch in silent rage?

'text' has been a bugbear of mine for a while. Or does everyone live in a shining, glittery, thrill-a-minute present?

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fucking morons.

I have soldiered on through the 'would ofs' and 'could ofs' - lots around at the moment, as you say - but can I just gibber quietly about the 'hon' I just stumbled across? Not strictly Pedants' Corner stuff, I know, but I need a safe place to hide for a moment...

Piece of mind

Sleeping Lion - would you have preferred 'hun'?

Argh argh argh argh - nooooooooooooooooo!

Sleeping lion, I am sorry. I am guilty of the odd "hon" but only in emails to my girlfriends. Does that give you nightmares?

Surely it's not as bad as piece of mind , which is still popping into my field of vision and causing me to twitch from time to time.

If you don't like "hun" then don't look in the children's clothing section. It is festooned with hunnage.

I can't abide it myself. Apologies, KFW, however the awfulness is ameliorated by the fact you actually know the person you are "honning" at.

Filthy Huns ... We need Uncle Matthew's Entrenching Tool

per say
hussar

'I could of wrote what you have wrote'

ARRGGGGGGGGGGHHHH

I have never seen per say before, but that is brilliant!

Thanks hon

I love eyesaw

It almost works.

Just seen 'with all her mates in toe' - sounds painful

These are all terrible.

For your delectation, I present...(drum roll) unasseptable.

"unasseptable", if you mean the thread about a certain childcare 'expert' in AIBU, was deliberate, to mock Supernanny who says it this way.

MQOY - yy, Supernanny tries to sound 'posh' and fails lol. I like her tho, I wouldn't leave my dc's with her for long lol.

Er ... no, sorry, I don't agree. I was always taught to say 'Marlebon', and it actually really annoys me when people say 'Mary-le-bone', it's a bit like American tourists asking for Lyesester Square. The 'bone' bit doesn't come from 'good', it's derived from the river Bourne. But ignore me, I'm an old pedant

DS got some helicopter balloons yesterday. The packaging stated it was an English company. The packaging invited DS to:

'Reach for the skys'

And advised:

'Unfortunatley, the balloons cannot be used indoors'

Now, I appreciate the company may have had the packaging printed overseas, but you think someone would have proof-read it?

We were at the Balloon Fiesta in Bristol yesterday, and there was a girl (maybe 7 yo) there, wearing a t-shirt that said 'cuz ize wurf it' - now, I know that the misspellings are deliberate, but I was decidedly at that one, I can tell you.

Actually, have just googled, and it's \link{http://beastclothing.myshopify.com/collections/t-shirts/products/cuz-ize-wurf-it\even more deliberate than I thought}. Still not convinced, though.

Jackie I am definitely at that! - Partly for the grammar/spelling, but partly (mainly) for the shudder feeling it gives being on a small child.

I'd like to thank you for the link though. I am a Wiltshire girl and have been in London for the past decade or so. I haven't heard anyone say "gert lush" for years! Might neeed to introduce that speak into the office...

I have just realised that I have probably offended someone:

a) typo (it should obviously be "need" with only 2 'e's); and/or b) use of "speak".

That is bound to be someone's pet hate... I apologise now.

perants

"I am not fully offay with the detail"

I was honestly just given a document with that written on it.