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.

undacovamotha - my bil says 'fadg-eye-tah' (to be funny) REALLY loudly at any given opportunity and now DH has started - purposefully, of course, suggesting very loudly that we have 'fadg-eye-tahs for dinner' as we walk around the supermarket. It makes me go beetroot red, every time.

The reflexive pronoun thing does make me clench my jaw and straighten my spine. I have only heard it from Brits, myself.

Fluffles - I have a colleague at work who places furniture orders and always asks for chester drawers. It makes me chuckle every time.

DD learnt very quickly that if she said "I didn't do nothing" she was admitting her guilt but I still don't think she really understands why as explanations of double negatives were a bit lost on her!

My biggest hate is could of / would of / should of.

Shame on you! You terrible snobs!
Doesn't a little regional colour ADD to our glorious language?
You remind me of the French and Saunders sketch where the family sent their daughter to boarding school which resulted in her disowning them for their uncouth and ignorant ways...

Tint fair...

:o thanks 2old4thislark.

i was corrected by a friend the other day for saying dee-tri-tus for detritus. "No" said she, it's det-ree-us. So emphatic was she that I believed her...and then Stephen Fry said dee-tri-tus on QI - Yes!

Sorry - she is not strictly family, but we are as close as sisters

I was sat
You have chose
I seen
I have saw

Hate all of these!
Don't see what's wrong with see-a-bat-a though! I always say it!

HobbitMama, so was it you and your DH I saw once in the Woolwich branch of Sainsbury's saying loudly 'shall we have some of they fadge -eye-ta things for dinner' then?
UQD, at least she doesn't say 'them books what you brought the other day.
How do people who say 'brought' instead of 'bought' cope at a bring and buy sale?
Corlan, 'patricide'. PMSL.

Would/should/could of drives me nuts .

I remember as a child if I'd been sick and said I had 'gone sick' my mum would correct me regardless of how much vomit I had running down me .

I hate it when people (dh being one of them) says 'murial' instead of mural. It's surprising how often it comes up.

I do grit my teeth at poor grammar, but I'm even more petty because I object to Americanised pronunciations. Sorry Americans, but it's just I find it irritating to hear people pronounce 'Fynance' instead of 'fInance' or 'Skedule' instead of 'shedule'.
Having said I probably pronounce lots of things in an innovated way and don't even know I'm doing it.

Does anyone say that? Really? I thought "muriels' just happened in sitcoms...

How often would it come up? Do you live in Belfast?

"How do people who say 'brought' instead of 'bought' cope at a bring and buy sale?"

I love that so much I shall pinch it.

My 81 year old MIL always pronounces Italian as Eye-talian. I keep telling her that an Italian would find it offensive, but she takes no notice. (She is a bit of a racist as well).

Bunbaker not 'Ey-tie' then!?

Once again I give you my landlady and her chester draws.

Likkle- loads of people I know say it, ditto pacific.

My mum says arem't for aren't and it drives me mad- "I'm going to need X, arem't I?" arrrrgghh

Did anyone see the last episode of the IT crowd the other week, with the whole pedalstool/pedastal and damp squid/squib joke?! Very amusing

The hard 'g' in margarine... it's hard because it's been in the fridge.

littleoldme- I think people say it so that you'll comment, and then they can make their weak excuse for a joke.

Only this morning my DD said 'flakes finished' and 'Makka pakka gone'

Honestly, I mean how much longer do I have to put up with this kind of shit? It makes me sick to my stomach.

'Would of' instead of 'would have'.

How could anyone not know this???

Misuse of punctuation drives me mad too.

my mum constantly uses 'infer' instead of 'imply'. thing is, she was given the kind of education where she learnt grammar ad infinitum, and even knows the correct form of address for bishops, vicars, etc. from her ladies' secretarial college - so why does she get that one thing wrong?

My sister has a voicemail greeting which says

"Leave a message or alternately call my mobile which is XXXXXXXXX"

So, what, you want me to ring your landline and mobile repeatedly in turn until you pick up??

Told her she means alternatively but she said "whatever".

I hate the "I was laying there" or "he was sat next to". I always have such a strong urge to correct that.

I laugh at my mum who says "pattren" instead of pattern ('tis a NE Scotland way of speaking) and CRESCENT instead of croissant!