It's CLIQUE not CLICK!

[MrsD14]

"all the mum's at the school gate are really clicky and never talk to meeee..." Argh. Just...no. It is ALWAYS in a whiny post too. Bothers me far beyond any rational response. I get ANGRY about this. I need to get a grip don't I? or someone lovely could reassure me that it isn't just me? What gets to you?

The apostrophe in "mum's" bothers me more.

and yes, I do realise that there's a misplaced apostrophe. There always is...

Argh - beat me to it PurpleDaisies!

I hate the way many Americans pronounce the word "nuclear". It's new-clear not new-cue-lar.

And it's "lose", not "loose", unless you mean the opposite of "tight".

All of the above, plus would of, could of etc.

It's "cue" not "que". Or sometimes it should be "queue". But it's never "que" unless you are Spanish or quoting Fawlty Towers.

It's new-clear not new-cue-lar.

If you are going to lecture Americans, you should at least use the proper American pronunciation. It's new-cle-ar (with the final "r" pronounced, of course), not new-clear.

Oooh I am glad to see this, I always thought it was clique but keep seeing "click" & thought I was wrong. Is it pronounced like click or cleek? I use the latter, I hope that is right

It is also being not been: They are been really mean to me..

Just No!!

It's pronounced cleek but you may find that when you say it like that the majority of people look at you like YOU'RE wrong. This is how language changes happen, I suppose. Mispronunciations gradually become the accepted form of the word.

Whenever I hear click it makes me think of people going to dances and meeting someone they click with.

Glad I am saying it correctly Curly. My pet hate is "should/would of" instead of "should/would have".

And it is reins, rather than reigns, as in tightness of.

Drawers, not draws.

I've finally found my spiritual home on Mumsnet!

Free reign.
NOOOOOO!

I saw "per say" earlier today on a thread. Made my pedant tic twitch.

To all intents and purposes. Not "intense" or "incense" or "pretence" or something else that sounds vaguely similar. Do people not read these days??!

I hate it when people say they aren't "phased" by something. It's fazed, not phased.

Ooh and saying "I just text x, y,z" instead of " I just texted...."

I raise you the pretend crossing out as in OP above.

But that's not an error Footle. It may be an effect you do not find amusing, but it is the effect the OP intended.

The fact that the word "literally" is used incorrectly so often that the incorrect version now appears in the Oxford English Dictionary as it's colloquial definition.

Click for clique is part of the dialect here in Cardiff. I'm from north Wales so it was something I had to learn when I arrived. It's not standard, but not a mistake either.

Only pedants have this topic visible. Preaching to the converted.

Sat/stood. Just while we're here. It's on the news, in articles ect.

PS. Ect too