Do members of your family say things that bring out the pedant in you?

[UnquietDad]

MIL always says "them [nouns]", and "what" where she means "that" or "which". It makes me almost homicidal.

"Them books what you bought the other day."

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!!!

And DW - who in most other ways is a precise user of language and a bit of a stickler - allows herself to lapse when in the presence of her ungrammatical Northern family. So, for example, when talking about her sister, she will say "Me and Jane are going..." I can never stop myself saying "Jane and I".

And they all just look at me as if I have broken wind.

Yes, I have some family members like this - my sister most famously for using a double superlative - 'that's the most stupidest show I've ever seen' or 'we had the most boringest night last night' - drives me mad! What my DH does now is ape her language, but makes it more ridiculous - 'the most expensivest' or 'the most deliciousest'.

Perhaps if you come out with worse grammar than what they're using they'll realise how unforgivably pedestrian they sound?

We've just got back from a few days with the inlaws. I am now recovering.

There are too many to mention, most of which I've forgotten as I have to switch off or there would be blood.

But 'I aren't' instead of 'I'm not' and 'them' instead of 'those'.

Talking about her 'health' and incapable of saying 'haemoglobin' says something like hebe-goblins.

More will resurface over time [sadly].

No; I come from a family in which pedantry has been raised to the level of a competitive sport .

My sister always writes 'there' for there/their/they're. She knows the difference but just can't be arsed. I have to sit on my hands so I don't pull her up on it.

DP said 'pacifically' instead of 'specifically' yesterday. He got very upset when I laughed at him

Professor, I come from a family where pedantry is an art form - sadly DH's family has no idea! DH is improving though!

There once was a man named DH
Who insisted on pronouncing it 'haitch'
So I shot him

My mother can't conjugate for toffee. Just this morning 'what was you doing?' I'm thinking of disowning her tbh.

Liberty - I think I love you

If your love is gramatically and stylistically well constructed then I'm open to your advances.

I've taken to muttering through gritted teeth 'shall we all try to speak correctly in front of dd as she's still learning this beautiful language'. What I mean is 'my ears, my poor ears, how are we even related?'

But I hide it well I think. Just a bit of a twitch.

I submitted that limerick to Hallmark btw. They weren't interested. Fascists.

MIL also says "Ant yuh?" and "Dint yuh?" I feel in need of David Mitchell's manager character and his pistol. If I ever feel lenient in her presence, the use of "tint" tips me over the edge. Not as in "that blue's an interesting tint", but "Where's money? Tint in tin."

hmm I tend to think that people who say '...and I' in speech are generally a bit up their own arse.

My family is from South Derbyshire UD. Lots of tint as in 'tint got no beef in it' (vegetable curry). David Mitchell's manager is a bit painful for me. I'm very attracted to the concept.

I like 'and I' correctly used. Used indiscriminately and therefore incorrectly, it's most upsetting. For example, he gave it to DH and I as a present. Bleurgh.

Liberty - I am with you on that. '...and I' is only sometimes correct!

How about people who say "arxed" instead of "asked", I also shout a lot at Australian soaps as they are guilty of the misuse of I and me - drives me crackers, surely someone along the line - writer - producer - actor wold notice!!! First post - very nervous!:)

Welcome frisky
I agree!

UQD - sure she doesn't say "Them books what you brought?:
My SIL's misuse of bought/brought drives me up the wall and I have recently learned through facebook that she can't tell the difference between your and you're either.
ARGH

So many to choose from, particularly chez MIL. She deliberately mispronounces things like gerbil and turquoise to seem posh Also, in writing, she puts every message/thought in inverted commas for no apparent reason, e.g. "Happy Birthday!", Please get "the shopping". It reminds me of Joey in Friends! DH and I have started to do random air quotes all over the place to tease her but she doesn't seem to have picked up on it.

I saw this and thought of you: 'You are impressed by the semicolon use and, therefore, consent to sexual congress.'

Some people I know say "I'm going blue water" or "he went London".

It drives me bonkers but I'm not clever enough to work out what the word is called that they are missing out.

Can anyone enlighten me? I could make a guess but I don't want you all to laugh at how fick I'm being.

Indeed. Dh's family are dreadful. Dh is slowly improving. He still says...'I haven't seen any neither.' That winds me up a treat.

One from DP - mediumocre...... aaaargh

Preposition Alouiseg? Is that what you were asking?

My friend constantly confuses off & of.

It galls me to the point that I can't reply to her emails straight away as I have to calm down.

My mum over pronounces lots of words to DD in an effort to be correct then uses 'ya' for 'you'. It's not hard is it?

My inlaws use ain't a lot & I hate it. They also shorten any name possible, even though they profess to dislike the practice.

They named DH Stephen so that it couldn't be shortened. I'm still bewildered as to their logic.

It's not the grammar which drives me potty, it's the glottal stops which abound in dh's family. Wretched children delight in it and join in with abandon to see how long it takes before I retreat a gibbering wreck.

ALouiseG - easy! It's "a"
I'm going a Bluewater.
He went a London.

DP's mum talks with her mouth full which I think is bizarre, though not strictly ungrammatical