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.

my MIL drives me insane,she talks to my DD in that baby voice,eg*Katayiiiiina,whatch yong witch youuuuu?

to BIL ,*Eliashhh,come here pweeeez!!!!for real?

then people who say Wenisday instead of Wednesday

BTW DD's name is not Katalina and BIL is not Elias,,

Was in Tesco Express the other morning and a member of staff was having a lengthy discussion with the duty manager about the fresh bread display... repeatedly referring to the 'see-a-battas'.

I had to actually bite my tongue not to correct her and then found myself sneaking glances at the manager instead thinking, 'correct her... why don't you correct her? She's selling the damn things, she ought to know what to call them!'

... I comforted myself with the thought that he was probably too professional to correct her in front of customers, but would probably have a quiet word later at some point.

I think about these things too much.

DH asks DS1 to sit "up the table" at mealtimes. What??? And threatens to put toys "up" if he's not playing with them nicely, meaning he'll take them away. Sigh!

DH says "go asleep" rather than "to sleep". I tend to stick "you" in to strange parts of sentences..."go you there". Anyone guess where I grew up?

Oh, I also used to put "so it was" at the end of sentences but have stopped it since living where I do now.

My mil says margarine with a g rather than a j sound. I am desperate to correct her but I don't want to sound petty. She (and dh) also say sangwich for sandwich!?!

Honestly, if one cannot be pedantic in Pedants' Corner.... it's like going over to the Chicken Keepers' thread to tell them off for being too into chickens, or to Sleb Twaddle to berate the denizens for being too interested in gossip.

"I've got a hospickal appointment."
You wont need one - promise !

Dh rips me to shreds for pronouncing milk "miwk" of course i know how to say milk in my head but saying meellk and actually pronouncing the L i find impossible

Then again he's half Welsh and almost pronounces it millac.

"I drink it out of the bockle."
NO YOU DONT !

I've had some wonderful ones from DH and his family. But given that English is about their eleventh language and my command of their first language is so dismal... well, it feels unfair to take the piss.

But the other day, DH informed me that DD had eaten her breakfast "all gregariously". He'd seen the word in a book and thought it denoted enthusiasm or gusto...

MIL always says 'I am going to UK'... It's the UK FFS! When taking a bowl out to eat soup, she pronounces it 'b-owl' (as in the bird) instead of 'boal'.

DH says 'sat' instead of 'sitting' grrrrrrr

Innit / isn't it at the end of every sentence...

So many!!! and English isn't even my first language. I am much more pedantic about the misuse of French grammar.

When I first came to England and said the letter H, no one understood so have now resorted to saying 'haitch'.

for anyone watching Supernanny:
-The third time, you say nothink

And finally, 'thir-ee' instead of thirty!! so irritating...

cardibach re: supposably, have you noticed how Simon Cowell always says 'undoubtably' when he means undoubtedly? That irritiates me no end.

DH and ILs say "sangwiches" and "munsters" instead of sandwiches and monsters which drives me batty.

Can't STAND misuse of "yourself". I spent half an hour on the phone to our mortgage company this week and I nearly hung up on the bloke who repeatedly asked me, "is that alright for yourself?"

"Awesome" - in response to being given or told anything remotely agreeable. No its not, its a f***g Twix, not the Niagara Falls or a total eclipse!

Oh and my late grandmother used to pronounce aubergines or-ber-geenies

To be fair Breastmilk I can think of plenty of people with English as a first language who wouldn't even try to use the word gregariously!

I am always very perturbed by people who say 'pome' for poem. Thay are quite often learned people on Radio 4, so I suspect there may be some merit in it, but it still upsets me.

DH says "I aren't" instead of "I'm not". I've started doing it too...

Euphemia, ah uhm sut = I am so .

I spend a lot of time translating for my partner who spends a lot of his time in a state of confusion.

that made sense in my head.

People who insert "yeah" every few words. Usually a 'local resident' on local news who witnessed it all: "I heard a noise - yeah - and looked outside - yeah - and I could see these lads - yeah..."

Actually NO - I'm not listening to you anymore - in fact I've just switched my telly off and launched it through the window - yeah !