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! My DH and I have recently moved to Canada and my uncle keeps sending me messages on facebook using the word "yous". As in:

"When are we going to see yous guys?"

Argghh...it makes my teeth itch.

Blimey! Cannot believe I called him DP!!! We've been wed for 12 years at self.

Sorry darling

Preposition! That sounds about right, all I could think of was pronoun which is totally wrong.

Thank you :)

My MIL says, "We've been over the shops." DH asks DD, "What did you do on the park?" I HAVE to correct him every time, but don't quite have the courage to correct MIL. Especially as she thinks she is the Queen of correct grammar and punctuation and spots incorrect apostrophes for fun!

I know a number of people who pronounce 'ineligible' as 'illegible'. It's a word that comes up fairly often in my line of work (legal/financial) and it makes me lose track of what they are saying.
(Brain: Huh? Oh, ineligible. What was he talking about again?)

Interesting posts

The arsked thing is probably physical. All cultures do not have sk in their lingo

I do phone-ins. Presenters go mad if you say BASICALLY.....Because it seems to get said so often.

You can here the DJ gritting his teeth and saying "If you say that again, I am having you off."

your place or mine, duckie.

Old GBS said "If an English man or woman opens ther mouth, you can tell their station."

Have we grown up a bit since then???

I'm like that too, Alouiseg. I know what the correct thing to say is, I just don't always know the correct grammatical term for it!

We live in the Midlands and my parents and Sister live in Cambridge.

They always say we have come 'up' to visit them, and it make my jaw clench.

But worse is the fact that they spell my childrens names incorrectly

Are they not going up then? You must live in a very south bit of the midlands!

My mum will say (rather self-consciously) 'I'll make a lovely terrain' when she means a terrine. She thinks she's being a bit French.

And I have heard a turbot referred to as a turbo on more than one occasion.

I just close my ears when I go to the IL's

But my brother always says 'I was sat down'

It makes me a bit twitchy.

When we go to them, they say that we have come up to Cambridge, when infact we have driven 100 miles south.

MIL refers to their visiting us as "coomin' oop" or "poppin' oop", and our visiting them as "coomin' daaan" or "poppin' daaan".

I suppose it is geographically correct, but it still sets my teeth on edge.

I should perhaps be grateful that she no longer asks DW when she is coming "ome" again ("ome" here meaning their house).

'Double negatives' really irriate me -

as in 'I ain't doing that neither'. I can't think of any others at the moment despite the fact they drive me crazy!

My parents say bag wet (baguette) and see a bata (ciabatta) - it's horrible, Dh says it really sets his teeth on edge.

My sister drops her t's a lot and my DD (4) pulls her up on it 'it's not wa-er, it's water'

My FIL says see-a-batta as well! I love him though.

Saying nothink instead of nothing drives me nuts!

champagne - i think your SIL must be my sister!

she has a complete blindspot to it - i spend most of my conversation with her saying "bought" or "did you bring it or buy it?"
and she writes "has" instead of "as" [grits teeth]

and she also writes Happy Brithday! in speechmarks.
it's weird.
(if she buys a card where it's printed, she draws the speechmarks in)

Loving this post.

Slightly different....mispronunciations that make my teeth grate.

potaters (potatoes)
winders (windows)
pillers (pillows)
coldslaw (coleslaw)
mataland (Matalan)
sacksuma (satsuma)

My mother is guilty of all of these (and more). My children pull her up all the time and I just smile and shrug!!

Further to 'pillars' for pillows: People who, in an effort to speak properly, pronounce mirror as 'mirrow'

They are the same people who think 'sliver' is a mispronunciation of slither and ask for a "tiny slither of cake."

produces - you were right first time

Not family, but I have encountered many people here in Australia who mix up 'brought/bought' grrrr....

ooh, yes, my family have a huge amount to answer for when it comes to grammatical errors. there are far too many to mention. some are a result of being northerners, others are just a result of being lazy/stupid-take your pick. i cant stay with them long as i feel like shaking them. they know they are winding me up and probably do it on purpose.
if my daughters drop letters in their speech i stop them mid-sentence and make them spell the word correctly.