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.

People on the Northern side of the family (MILS) say 'tret' as the past tense of treat.

As in 'he tret 'er right nice'.

Oh, god, just remembered a couple more blinders.

Foilage like you get on trees - a very common one, that. My DH said it the other day and I had to give him a formal written warning. Two strikes and he's out.

And formage frais. I have a friend that says that.

I'm not having it.

I think that might be 'who says'

I refuse to believe that those basic errors are dialect because they are common across the whole of the British Isles. They are just wrong, sloppy grammar.

Although some things are more commonly wrong/sloppy in certain regions than others!

oh but Euphemia, when i went in to DD's school to ask her teacher to give extra spellings because DD was so poor at them, she said to me, IN FRONT OF DAUGHTER, 'it doesn't matter, that is what spell check is for'.
aaagh, i was left open mouthed!

'Come and have yur photo tooked' I have to bite my tongue every time.

homebirthmummy4, she was joking, right?

Personal favourites are someone loudly admiring a "Canelloni" in an art gallery, rather than a "Canaletto"; and those people who say "mute point", rather than moot point. Flogging's too good for 'em....

homebirthmummy - that's appalling

i might need smelling salts...

Fellatio - a few of those past tenses are hangovers from when the words were formed differently, so they're more archaic than wrong. (ie wrong in SE, but still correct in their original form if you're using a dialect)

i will now have to go away and think about some genuine examples, because i know there are loads.

Some of these examples are down to accent though aren't they?

I am always correcting dd's grammar. I have become a laughing stock really. Been told frequently. 'grammar don't matter'.

The headteacher of our secondary school always says 'I aren't' and can't spell for toffee.

my DH is another 'bought/brought' offender although I have nearly trained him out of it now.

People who say 'infer' when they mean 'imply'

People who say 'John and I' when it should be 'Me and John' - I know that's already been mentioned but it's so annoying!

My FIL, despite being very well off and used to ordering wine in restaurants, pronounces Merlot as it's spelled instead of 'Merlo'. Oh the shame!

People who pronounce 'issue' 'issyew' instead of 'ishue' and 'seksual' instead of 'sekshual'. Perhaps not incorrect but irritates the hell out of me!

Aah, I haven't been in pedants' corner before but I like it!

My step-dad always says ockard for awkward and weary for wary - it's part of the local dialect here, I think.

The one that currently sets my teeth on edge is 'nuncal fold' for nuchal fold - currently, constantly, being used by someone I know who's having a scan next week...

Brought for bought

You see it on here all the time

Oh god mine are so middle class, I could shoot myself tbh

Chee-ah-baht-ah for ciabatta
Panna-chetta for pancetta
Focka-chee-ah for focaccia

"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"

ahem, northern pedant here

My mum does the "she gave the present to your dad and I"
I even heard "I'm saving that for and I's lunch"

Can't abide "lay" when it should be "lie."

As in "I went for a lay down."

Hens "lay" eggs, and you "lay" a table.
Or it's the past tense of lie: "I lay down on the bed."

Oh God, is it time for wine yet?

Not strictly a pedantic thing exactly, but it really gets on my fucking tits annoys me when people say 'thanking you'.

It just sounds so fucking inane. 'Thank you' is perfectly acceptable, as is - if really necessary - 'I am thanking you' although that sounds a bit robotic. But thanking you? WHY, WHY, WHY?

'thanking you' is like something from a 70s sitcom, and it was used then to denote a twat

(so yes I agree)

Oh, and misuse of "myself"
Estate agents are particularly bad at it. "You'll be dealing with myself or one of my colleagues."

I said tret the other day, Fellatio, and then got laughed out of the house by DH (have lived in the north for a few years but grew up down south and never even heard of tret until I lived here) .

TBH, things like tret I would consider to be dialect so, uber-pedant though I am, they don't really bother me. Having an accent or using dialectal words is fine by me, being wrong is not...another family (and general) favourite is misuse of the subjunctive, as in "I wish I was going too",aargh!

"How are you?"
"I'm good"
GOOD AT WHAT???

'You'll catch a cold, isn't it'?

'I am going to the shops, isn't it'?

Where has 'isn' t it' sprung from?????! I've heard lots of children using it!

Old Essex accent, before sarf Essex gained the stranglehold.

Orl roight deeyaa, ows yoo? Aah ya cummin on toosdee?

Spoken extremely slowly.

Ffs no wonder you're unemployable, an interview would take all day and they'd need a translator. Or would that be in-avoo?