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.

Brilliant! What a rapier wit, how I wished I had one!

Strangely I quite like some of the above...Love it when a friend from Sheffield says 'while six o'clock'!

Lots of these do go with the local dialect. Two local ones that I hear, and don't like are,

Should OF instead of should HAVE

The teacher will LEARN you how to swim instead of TEACH.

Also I do prefer the northern/midland way of saying bath, path, grass.....to me barth, parth, grarss sounds wrong! Especially when some kind southener exaggerates the 'ar' sound in an effort to correct me.

Ahem. . . it's U (Nancy Mitford) to say "up" to Cambridge and Oxford, even if you're coming from Shetland. Pretentious, perhaps, but not incorrect.

Should of, would of, could of.

"Thanks for the invite." Actually, it's an invitation.

Oh -- and fellow Australians who pronounce Shiraz "Shiraaahhh" (note, not Syrah) because they think it's French (it's Persian)

My friend says tiger wave instead of tidal wave and a ration of bacon. Have you all heard of the eggcorns database? I love it.

Saying poT poory (pot pourri). Same person saying, "I learned him to read."

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seaturtle, I know it's not poT pourri but cannot bring myself to say the pretensious correct version. So I just try to avoid saying it :o It makes DH sneeze, so i suppose I must ask people to move "that stuff"
My grandad once tried to eat some that my mum had out, thinking it was some fancy new crisps

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Oh dear. I'm afraid I might find in that list a mistake I make. The shame.

I once worked with a guy that said 'asterix' (as in Asterix the Gaul) instead of asterisk. When I pointed out his mistake, he told me not to 'patricide' him!

Using "less" when it should be "fewer".

Eg. "There were less boys than girls."

Generally seems not to be picked up on these days (I find).

Also incorrect use of reflexive pronouns - done SO much in an effort to seem more "proper". Nope. You fail. As I think Clam has pointed out. It drives me up the wall!

These aren't actually things my family say but I just love a good pendants' rant...as may be clear from my post.

When anyone ever says, 'buzzes' instead of 'buses' I want to gouge out their eyes with a spoon.

My dad says margarine with a hard G. I haven't spoken to him in over 11 years and it was definately a contributing factor .

I can't stand people who end words with INK instead of ING,as in somethink,anythink etc.My sil also getting words and phrases wrong,like vordka for vodka and starting letters Dear madman,I me myself are writing to you,used to correct her but now reckon it gives the reciever a good laugh on maybe a dull day.

just remembersd a funny from sil.When I was at her house for a meal she asked if I liked mango tout as in ticket tout,turned ou to be mange tout.

oh yes littleoldme, my grandparents used to say 'margarine' with a hard G. Why would anyone do that??!!!

My decorator speaks like that Alouiseg! It always makes me laugh what most people think psses for an Essex accent these days - that's not Essex, that's East London - a different animal altogether.

FIL says 'Far-gee-ta' instead of Fajita!

DM (Hyacinth Bucket wannabe) always says either 'Thanking You' or 'Thank you kindly' when getting off the bus. It really riles me!

Pet hates are also seckatary (secretary), and pacific (specific).

Orlroight felaysho, dya waant doolux oarrr that farrer n ball?

2 shuggers larve, dya moind if I yewse yooerr toilit.

Have you go the offical phrase book? That's remarkably accomplished!

Shouldn't that be can I borrow your toilet alouiseg

My talents are many and varied, just not particularly useful.

:o

In the North the vast majority of people, even educated ones, seem to say 'threat' but without the 'th' sound iyswim instead of 'treated'. Grrr.

I myself believe reflexive pronouns ought to be a criminal offence: a number of my more grammatically superior colleagues have been heard to utter it in meetings between myself and themselves.

I have written a letter of complaint to my local bus company because the lady announcing the next stop says "MonTpelEErr Avenue". It starts every day off on the wrong foot. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they've chosen to totally ignore me.

That supernanny woman says expeshully. Impossibly painful to the pedant's ear.

DH goes down the shops.

Is it really so hard to get it right?

i have to work with somebody (external contractor not staff) who thinks that we keep socks in a draw.

he wrote it five times in the email and used the plural too 'draws' so he must genuinely not know

alouiseg has made me chuckle - as usual - brilliant - if only I had your wit!