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 sister was telling me about going to 'Audi' (said to rhyme with howdy) the other day. I said 'I didn't know you were getting a new car. she looked a bit . It turns out she meant Aldi.

Which I always pronounce 'All-Dee'.

Gawd knows how she'd get her tongue round Lidl.

Which should be pronounced LEE-dul

My work colleague who I work closely with mixes up bought/brought. Mind you, she also types up our paperwork with random numbers of spaces (usually 2/3 spaces between each word, and also presses 'enter' at the end of every line) which drives me BANANAS!!!!

The worst of the worst is the usage of flammable and inflammable as if the two words are opposites. If someone is waving a blowtorch around near an object that they claim to be inflammable just run away screaming, "We're all going to die!" That soon sets them straight.
The correct opposite of them both is non-flammable, or am I perhaps taking the pedantry a bit too far.

In this part of Britain people use 'were' instead of 'was' as well as the ones you mention OP.
"Ah were talking t' ahhh kid t'uthah day abaht them thingumyjigs what ee got off t' maaket"
WTF?

I have got into the habit of correcting DS who is saying it too and I'm finding it increasingly difficult not to correct others. If I suddenly stop posting it will be because I have slipped up and been stoned for it.

I ought to move for my own safety.

MrsChemist Think I'd have 'done one' (yes I know sorry I hate that one too) long before I found out!

Every time Supernanny says "nuffink" instead of "nothing" I want to punch her in the gob. I get so wound up that I have to leave the room.

The history of 'Haitch' in Australia is inextricably linked to the history of (mostly) Irish Catholic teaching orders of nuns and priests who brought the 'Haitch' pronunciation with them from Ireland, where it is standard in Hiberno English, and the mainly Catholic children they taught, and the tensions between the Catholic and other communities.

I don't understand why people say usage when they mean use, the it's / its thing drives me nuts, 'off of' is an abomination, and 'excape' makes me grind my teeth.

I try not to intervene every two minutes while the DCs attempt to speak English to me, but I can't restrain myself when they sprinkle their conversations with 'like', 'I've drank', 'I would of' -- the worst, but possibly the most endearing mistake made by one of them is DD1's pronunciation of the word 'couldn't' as 'couldn'n't (couldnent). She spells it correctly, but she simply can't hear the difference between the right pronunciation and hers.

That theory has been given on here for the fact that many people in the north west of England and areas radiating from Liverpool say Haitch, math (it may have been you that said it!) and I can see the logic in it. (It's still wrong though.)

I have no idea how or even if Haitch got into the north of England, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't through Irish Catholic communities. I have an idea it may have been there all the time, and never died out, just as it lived on in Ireland and some other fringe areas like the northwest (where it may eventually have been reinforced by the Irish influx of the last 150 years).

There are some areas of Ireland where dialects of English closely resemble Elizabethan or 17th century English, or what scholars think may have been Elizabethan English or the English of the Stuarts. Some West Indian dialects share phonological elements with Hiberno English, partly because the plantation of the West Indies and the accompanying spread of English occurred at around the same time that Ireland was undergoing the process of plantation and linguistic transformation. Haitch may be a holdout from bygone days.

And it is perfectly right as far as I'm concerned

People in Birmingham are bad enough with their grammar. When I moved here, I had to get used to the constant "ain't" and "ain't it?" and "bab" (for babe). It's all quite funnhy though:o Brummy specialty :o

Oops misspelt "funny" :o don't tell me off pedantic people please :)

My mum, love her, has a long history of mispronunciation.

Moo-wes-lee ~ Muesli
Fock-a-chiar~ Foccacia (dh now calls it 'shag a sofa' bread!
Veg-it-ables ~ vegetables
...to list just 3.

I love her but she drives me demented!

sorry that was supposed to render the syllable she emphasises as bold, but didn't work (blush)

I'll just get me coat...

All time worst: 'foul swoop' instead of 'fell swoop'

Many people don't seem able to pronounce the 'str' sound these days, and say 'shtr' instead - for example, I'm going shtraight to the pub after work.

Number one TV offender is Jasmine Harman from 'Place In The Sun', who's forever cranking out chirpy lines like, "Let's go shtraight to see the first apartment!" and "Look, you're shtraight across the road from the beach!".

I also reckon that every hairdresser who's ever touched my locks has had a set of 'shtraighteners'...

My friend had to stifle an when her neighbour said that she loved licing in th same village around people she knew for years, because 'familiarity breeds content'.

I once had a friend who pronounced yoghurt

yog-ought, like 'ought to be'.

"Sorry" - instead of pardon.
YOU WILL BE !

'Chimley'