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?

Why do birds. My ex-boss constantly used 'appraise' for 'apprise', though this is so common I think it will make it into the dictionary soon.

Doesn't make it right though.

and yes its octopodes - greek not latin

and theres a difference between dilation and dilatation they are not bloody interchangable!

Any kind of management wank-speak makes me twitch.

I like thinking inside the box actually.

Depends on the box, tethers.
Blue sky thinking though. I mean seriously. Blue. Sky. Thinking. What does that even MEAN?

Don't. I've just been told that my new place of work is about to adopt 'hotdesking'. It sounds like a gameshow presented by Mike Reid.

I hate peoples'.

Well, any misplaced apostrophe really.

And why can't people spell "misspell"?

Why do businesses delegate signage issues to people who can't spell? There's a newsagent near me that I won't go into on principle. If I knew spelling wasn't my strong point, I would consult a dictionary before submitting my final draft. Why can't they do that?

I have five dictionaries in my house; surely it's not too much to expect for most establishments to have one?

(Note: NOT breath)

I hope they touched base with you all before implementing that user-centred solution which is no doubt intended to incentivise the workforce.
I'm not actually sure that means anything in English, but it sounds like something my old boss would have said.

Licence, even...

Thanks, retiredgoth2.

My fave hate is people in the media using "media" as a singular. You can occasionally catch them saying something like "the media" (plural) and "this media" in almost the same sentence. Does it not occur to them that something might be wrong?

Q. Why is television known as a medium?
A. Because it is neither rare nor well done.

On my way to and from work, I pass a blackboard sign that announces that tea and coffee are now 'avalible'. One day I'm going to have to take some chalk in the car with me and stop off to amend it.

Jackie, you mean you don't do this already? I regularly take chalk out with me

'soley'

More specific than 'fishy'.

Yes, 'solely' is a bit more 'pacific', don't you think?

CJCregg. Strangely enough, no I don't, but maybe I should.

Just seen 'nothing to right home about' on fb. that will teach me to go on there. Also had to go and rant at dh rather than posting on a friends picture yesterday as her photo heading said 'you will except a cuddle'. Accept damn you, accept!

Oh I love these threads:

Slither. I'll have a SLITHER of cake. drives me bloody nuts. Why suddenly can noone say the word sliver anymore?

Acrossed instead of across. DP does this sometimes

Nucular. it's not that fecking hard NU-CLE-AR

Oh and confusions between affect and effect. quite common as well.

"ecspecially". "ecscape". It drives me nuts!

Jackie, did they have "tea's and coffee's"?? I have to work really hard to resist the urge to correct misplaced/unnecessary apostrophes. Thw worst is when a sign has several plurals, some with apostrophes and some without. Fgs, if all of the words are expressing that there's more than one of the item, surely it's common sense that they should all be written in the same way??

Where I live, I hear lots of "drivelling", "who belongs to this pen?" "do you want a bag on it?" (when in a shop). I spend a lot of my time out and about cringing.

The worst. Fgs, I really must preview my posts first

people who "putter in the garden" - it's potter surely?
And menopausal women having hot flashes - wasn't it flushes until a few years ago?

Let's use that queue, there's less people in it.

FEWER, DAMN YOU!

Would of: yuck.

There/their/they're. It's not that hard, is it?

I teach literacy and, quite rightly, have to be polite and supportive at work. But sometimes it would be nice to be David Mitchell.

Worse child's name ever - surely worst? It's been on Most Active for ages now and it's driving me nuts!

MNHubbie HATES with a passion people using robbed instead of stole which he gets a lot at work:

"'EE robbed my pen."
"What did he take from it?"
"Eh?"
"What was stolen from your pen?"
"I don't get it."
"You said that your pen had been robbed. So what items belonging to your pen were stolen?"
"You what?"

and so on...

mrsGokWan that's fabulous. I shall use that tactic next time I hear that particular mistake

SIL pronounces texts as texas. I always start singing 'Yellow Rose of Texas' whenever I hear her say it. Yes, I know, it's obnoxious of me!