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.

saying something like, 'me and the children we ate them cakes' is a very black country way of saying things, ay it?

I don't mind regional chit chat at all though, I like it. It makes our country more colourful :)

Not family, but I have had to stop listening to Radio 1 because Scott numpty Mills has now managed to lead the other presenters and now random children/idiots to say "off of", as in "Sarah off of Manchester" or "Tom off of Radiohead". GGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Alouiseg - with the now thing, I think it's just a matter of emphasis, rather than grammar. In German, you have to order your sentence Time Manner Place, unless you really want to emphasise one of those things, but if you just switch them round for no reason it sounds a bit odd. English is a bit more flexible!

An infinitive is to + verb, i.e. to run. English is weird for using two words for it, rather than just e.g. rennen or courir.

There's nothing like switching between languages to make you grammar aware (I'm not a real expert!)

I have to shut my ears to my MIL she drives me mad, some that spring to mind are

Balasmic Vinegar (Balsamic vinegar)
Mango Towts (mange tout)said very loudly in Chinese restaurant, I wanted to crawl under the table.
Etable (Edible)
House of Frasier (House of Fraser)

aggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !

My ex insisted on saying "Nothink".

He had to go.

roffle at Balasmic vinegar!

I remember watching a dcoumentary about Scottish fishermen once - didn't understand a blardy word.

I'm Australian. We don't say haitch. We were certainly taught it was wrong at home and at my primary school.

part of me wants to justify the "We done that" errors.

i can't think of the excelletn example i found myself using earlier today, where if i'd substituted the word i used with another verb meaning similar, i would have been completely wrong.
like "I sang" when down here you often get "I sung", but because their accent is sooo strong, to my ears "I sung" sounds like "I sang" - so i can just imagine when they were learning to speak, they heard "I sang" but they also heard other words with "un" as the vowel sound and thought they were the same.

At my Grandmother's funeral, my uncles repeatedly called the hearse a hurst. It's bothered me for years now.

sorry, meant to add- i never heard the error until i moved down here - that's why i put it down to accent. In Nottm, Sung sounds like Sung and Sang sounds like Sang - you could never mistake a "uh" sound with an "A" sound.

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i also think people that say, jane and i....
sound a bit repulsive .

and as for people letting their children pull their grandparents up on grammar.
that's just nasty and rude.
i'd think what a wanky little brat if i heard that tbh.

no point wasting spending your life being that uptight.

It's different from something, not different to. We're thinking of putting it on my DM's gravestone - she was a real sticker and was definitely 'different from' anyone else.

know what prog you talking about Fellacionelson,Iam from Glasgow and we couldn't understand it either.The prog was based in Aberdeen.

I hate "put on your shoes and socks."

This is the most famous example of a hysteron proteron.

My boyfriend, after he once said "Perockative" as opposed to "perogative" and was corrected by me, now uses any excuse he can to add it into a conversation and say it 'his' way in order to annoy me. Gets me every single time the bastard! /

I'm glad it's on Discussions of the Day' because that's how I found it and I LOVE it. .

My family are nearly as pedantic as I am, but I have a friend who, amongst other errors, says 'supposably' for 'supposedly' and it drives me nuts. She says see-a-batta too, and has an expresso coffee. I like her too much to correct her.

Homebird8 - I thought I was a lone voice in the wilderness for 'different from'! FGS it's root is diverge! How can you diverge to something!

I also hate 'say again' when someone hasn't heard me. Seems to be getting more popular.

The next person who comes to this thread to say we are being pedantic is barred. < Gavel >

"Mango Towts"?? that would have me in hysterics if I overheard it in a restaurant

Like you, cardibach, I wouldn't have known about it if it hadn't been on "Discussions of the Day", and it's been lovely to find out that there are so many like-minded people out there.

Great to see a simple explanation given of the "I" vs "me" thing - my late mum often got that wrong and when I was in my teens it especially used to annoy me when she was telling me off - I always wanted to correct her at inappropriate times!

One thing that's surprised me - I've seen a lot of complaints about "see-a-batta" but no mention of "brush-etta". Several members of my family say this and I try to hold my tongue. But then the British do have a long-held reputation for being terrible at other languages, so perhaps I ought to stick to complaining about English mistakes...

Loving this!! Or is that wrong????
A couple of very good friends have me biting the inside of my cheeks to stop the laughter when they talk about:

going to the fruit shop for pundits of strawberries,

asking if I have any delmonte earings!!!!

enjoying glass of wine and crisps with gap-a-leeno hummus!

I have to think of some more

My ExMIL prounounces discipline as in disciple (she's religious) so she says you need to discipe-lin your children. Drove me nuts.

I was so excited the other day to be given a 'recipe' by a Cornish man rather than a 'receipt' - I see 'receipt' used in C18 books where we would use 'recipe' today, but I'd never heard the opposite used.