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.

"Nice one" (instead of thanks ) on being handed a cup of coffee for example.
You've not even tasted it yet - how do you fucking know ? It might be like knats piss ! Dont fucking patronise me ok ! If after drinking it you think it was a lovely drink and I made it just right THEN you can compliment me on it OK ! Grrrrr....

Back to mine for a coffee anyone ?

Suda - pardon is wrong.

DH has a very strong sititngbourne accent, and it drvies me mad (i don't know why i'm with him! )
he says orff instead of off, etc.

i find myself correcting him on almost everything.

and WTF is "indoors"? why is everything indoors, whether they mean direction or location????? i hate it, hate it, hate it!

take something inside, you don't take something indoors!
something lives in the house, not indoors!
(i might be uberpedantic on this one - i've started telling him a replacement for indoors even when indoors works, because the word kills me)

[calm]

madmn52 - thank you. but mine's a tea.
Nice one.

My DH calls me "Honey".

He absolutely loathes the stuff.

Is this cause for concern maybe ?

Today I will experiment - I will call him endearing names based on things I loathe !

Nickel - I meant when someone doesnt hear you first time. I hope "pardon" is right otherwise wait till I see my elderly parents - I am so going to kill them (sorry thats criminal as a phrase and in general)!
They said they were teaching me manners so I would get on in life. Now I think they were just trying to humiliate me (sob).

sequences instead of sequins

have a friend who says this drives me mad

I know what you meant

there was a whole thread on it a few weeks ago - pardon is common and "non-U" (which means that people who have ideas above their station use it because they think it makes them sound posh) posh people and people with breeding say "what?"

i think i must have been born rather pohser than i thought, because i didn't even know of the word pardon until i had left uni and someone was telling me about it being wrong.

I always favoured "huh?" (or more usually "uh?" )

that's because i'm more common than common.

(but i have a posh accent so i get away with it! )

Experiments not going too well folks !

"Screaming kid" - didnt impress him !

"Marmite" - oops - he's not happy !

"Traffic jam" - spare room anyone ? - only I dont want to put this coat on back to front and go with these nice men to get the help I need.

See what you mean now Nickel - it is a working class thing I think - parents always used to correct their children and say its not 'what' its 'pardon'. Funny how when us commoners ( or is it 'we' commoners - driving miself daft now ! ) say 'what' it sounds really dopey and ignorant - yet when posh folk say it sounds really upper class and sort of clipped IYKWIM. Hope you do - cos I've lost my own train or is it trail ( oh FFS ) of thought now.

I'm so happy to find this thread! Thank you Discussions of the Day. I am continually picking EVERYONE I know up on their grammar - usually not my family as I have been born (or should that be borne??) into a family of ridiculously pedantic grammarians. A few favourite snipes (there are many) -

The Americanised (not Americanized) Skedule rather than shedule.

Communial (like communion) rather than COMMunal. As in, communal areas.

And my biggest bugbear - apostrophes. Or the incorrect usage of. Why do people seem to just throw them in everywhere? Especially in plurals when the singular ends in a vowel. Why is this? What is this need we have to stick an apostrophe after a vowel? Case in point - I got so upset at DP during an antenatal class the other day for writing Pro's and Cons instead of Pros and Cons. It sparked an embarrassingly loud discussion as to why he felt the need to put the apostrophe in Pros not not in Cons. At the very least he could standardise his lack of apostrophical knowledge. (Needless to say the other people in my NCT class now think I am a ridiculously anal pedant. Which I am, of course, but try and keep it under wraps....)

Phew! Thanks MN for allowing me to get that off my chest. I'm sure there will be further rants to follow....

I teach the DCs "I'm sorry, what did you say?" or "Could you repeat that, please?" as an alternative to "WHAT?" or "Pardon". But I think school has been teaching DS "Pardon". I may have to Have Words...

DSD's both say fort-th instead of fourth.

My dear mum has many, but the favourite for me and DH is, would you like some Vee-a-letta (Vienetta) for pudding?

MIL always says "Put me some butter on that slice of bread" instead of "Could you put some butter on that slice of bread" or "Put him some sunscreen on" instead of "Put some sunscreen on him"-hate it, hate it, hate it!

FIL says "Pitt-za" instead of pizza and "Brake-fast" instead of breakfast.

DH used to say "We need to go to the supermarket didn't we until I beat that out of him reminded him gently he was using the wrong tense.

The other one that drives me nuts is "loose" instead of "lose" although I know that's been done to death!

(train of thought )
[soothes Suda's head]

i use -ize, not -ise, because it's more correct than -ise. -ise is rubbish.
-ize is how the OED prefers it.

-ize is not Amercian, they took -ize over to America with them, and we were the ones to change it.

Oh, and a friend of mine used to say "attentative" instead of "attentive" when talking about her boyfriend. Drove me nuts was was too polite to say anything even though I wanted to scream "it's attentive!!!"

FellatioNelson I hadn't noticed Simon Cowell's undoutably. I think you have just ruined this year's X-Factor for me as it'll be all I can hear now .

grin at suda.I thought saying yeah after saying a couple of words was a british thing coz all my British friends say that.Can we go somewhere to eat? yeah.I just saw a boy 'yeah',he was riding a bike'yeah'.Makes me want to say finish a sentence without saying yeah.

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but my DP constantly asks for a "slither" of something rather than a "sliver". Conversely my father (who in all other respects is very grammatically correct and even more of a pedant than I am) says "rarver" rather than "rather". Are there too many "rather"s in that sentence?

I have a number of friends who say, "I just text you" rather than "I have just texted you". Cringe

And seconding Fellatio's post - being a big Simon Cowell fan, I will be forced to lose respect for him if I catch him saying "undoubtably". :(

I have a friend who always says Ta-Laa instead of Tarrah or Goodbye.

I get vexed when people try and be all twee ( is that a word? - well just dont start ok !)

E.g: "Lets have a 'nice' cup of tea"

No actually - lets have a horrible one

"I'm going out to get my mother a nice card"

Ok dear - just a thought - why not get her a nasty insulting one for a change

"Get your fresh bread here"

Sorry to bother you but is there somewhere I can buy mouldy 3 week old bread

"Sandwich Bar. You choose the filling - we make the sandwich"

Very kind - but let that lady at the back choose mine then put your feet up - I'll hop over and make it myself.

sorry - why not get a nasty insulting one for her,for a change ?

I'm exhausted now by trying to be perfect - or is it - from trying to be perfect ? Oh WTF

• going for a lie down.

I have just been reading a friends post on face book complaining about a sleepless night last night due to toothache. Another's comment is "ooo I can emphasise with that"

'Cut-EL-ry'

No, it's cutlery. See, you can tell by the way it's spelled.

Tongue, promounced 'tong' not 'tung'.

'Fa-jee-tas'
No, see it's Fiyeetas, that's because you don't have a j sound in spanish. My mums friend calls them Fa-teetas though. [hmmm}