Per se, it's per se

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Please! I'm seeing 'per say' all over mn these days, and it's hurting my brain. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

The thing that pisses me off is pronouncing Wallander as "Wollander" ie with a W and without the emphasis on the 'a'. Don't they ever hear him answer the phone, ffs? (I'm talking about the proper Wallander, with Krister Henriksson.

I saw the Lamon's terms thing today as well .

finest

Thank you, bloody hell I'm terrible.
I still can't believe I did a degree and managed a 2.1, and a PgCE it's obvious they didn't mark grammar.

I got really annoyed at Strictly the other week, when they kept referring to one of the Halloween characters as Malificent (it's Maleficent you fools!).

I think some people get words like lamon wrong because they don't understand where the required word comes from iyswim.
The poster maybe doesn't know the term lay man and what it means.

Maryz

That sounds like me and dh, or is that dh and I?
I do like him to correct me though, does your dh or does he not appreciate it?

Mal-efficient? Sounds like some of my colleagues!

DS(10) wrote a story at school. He'd written 'me and my friends were sitting by the door'. Teacher (not TA) had changed it to 'myself and my friends'.

It was nearly brown paper bag time......

"Here here" is the one that pisses me off. It's "hear hear" FFS.

The 'for e.g' thing is just like 'comprises of' or 'revert back'.

Or when people say 'you have two choices' when they mean, you have a choice.

spider I think the worst I've seen on MN is "perfectly quaffed hair".

This is second time I've complained about it. I need to move on

DH has just brought home Jack Daniel's and Hotel Chocolat fortified chocolates.

I forgive him every grammar mangle he's committed today

'Quaffed hair'. Epic.

I've told this story before on here: one of my antenatal classmates (v high powered job etc) once asked me to pass her a Muslim to wipe up some baby sick. I thought she was making a bad pun so I handed it over with the words "allahu akhbar". She gave me the face - I found out subsequently that's what she thought they were called.

Love the lamon and the quaffed hair!

I'm always seeing things like this on FB but never remember them. Must start making notes.

I'm pretty sure that's OK, NewLife (I think Maryz has greater authority on these matters than I do, though, so I'm perfectly happy to be corrected). I like learning new stuff too, and MN is a mine of new info.

I see I should have refreshed my page [grin

Love this

Did they mean quaffed? (Aka coiffed?) Or is quiffed an actual thing?

They meant 'coiffed' Turkey

This poster was describing their urge to splash water at a lady in the pool who was wearing make-up and had "perfectly quaffed hair", because she was getting the poster's way.

They were very scathing of the woman's coiffure, er, I mean, quaffure.

En masse and en route.

One of my FB friends uses Kay? Took me a while to work out she didn't mean OK, she meant Que? in the style of Fawlty Towers' Manuel.

Went to a school fair where they had a big sign for the Tom Bowler.

I'm not sure that they did mean 'coiffed,' Maisie. Alvin Stardust did have a signature quiff. Could go either way though I suppose.
I do like m'kay (said in the style of the trying-to-be-cool South Park teacher).

FinestGrindy, in that case there, they used "quiffed" as a joke, as Alvin was known for his massive quiff. It's a pun.

Most of the instances of quaffed/quiffed I've seen here weren't puns but errors.