It’s ‘champing at the bit’ I tell you.

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Not ‘chomping’ you numpties. (Ah that’s better).

MrsTerry, this blog on UK/US usages seems to suggest that 'roil' vs 'roll' diverged, with most OED citations of 'roil' post 1700 being US -- interestingly, the first 'roiling' citation is apparently only from 1967:

separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2006/05/roiling-and-broiling.html

Who, you may imagine my popularity on the rare occasions I pick up my son -- I'm actively trying not to burst into

Ah, posted too soon -- I was going to say, you can imagine my popularity in the playground as I try not to break into WHEN YOU'RE A JET, YOU'RE A JET ALL THE WAY...

Like my DH serving me a 'slither' of cake. It's a sliver!

The other one that really annoys me, though I've never heard anyone else mention it as a bugbear, is "The reason being..."

Lots of people seem to say for example "The reason being is that I've got a headache", rather than "The reason being that I've got a headache". As though a 'reason being' is a thing, rather than 'being' being the verb in the sentence iyswim. It drives me nuts!

My DH says slither instead of sliver too.

Mind you, in the heat of a disagreement he intended to say that I was behaving like a gorgon and instead said I was behaving like a Gorgonzola😂.

Yes, it's champing.
And it's a damp squib.

Finding the more recent confusion over past/passed and worse/worst somewhat trying. I had a pretty poor set of teachers yet managed to take all this on board, don't know why others can't understand that they are not interchangeable.

Another bugbear is feint instead of faint. Especially on any TTC threads.

Slither of cake!! love that.

I have a personal pet hate of ‘crutch’ instead of ‘crotch’. Although I do dislike the word crotch!

And ‘tenterhooks’ not ‘tenderhooks’ you numpties!

"Slither of cake" and "tow the line" are my pet hates.

Off your own bat. BAT. Not back. Drives me loopy.

Misuse of “mortified” is a real bugbear. I put all these down to people reading fewer books and so have less opportunity to see the words/phrases in context. I’m guilty of spending too much time online nowadays but was a real bookworm and still love reading.

I could say I'm not fazed about these, but I am. Especially when people use phased!

Fazed by, I mean!

Came on to say the same as Titilated. It's fazed!!!!! That one has been annoying me for ages...

This reminds me of the IT Crowd when someone was put "on a pedal stool".

I hate seeing ect instead of etc, and 'we were going too the shops'. It happens a LOT on MN.

No, it happens alot. 😀

Champing.

If I see 'loose weight' one more time......

It's not "I can't do links on here" it's "I don't know how to do links on here"

Also, what happens ALOT?

Didn't know champing, interesting!

I've noticed mortified seems to be used in place of horrified by many on Mumsnet. There was a thread the other day where OP said she was "mortified and embarrassed."

What’s wrong with mortified to express extreme shame. Or am I missing something?

Alot. Aswell.

Baby needs changed/sofa needs gone
I'll do are shopping
His a lively one
I was looking for sommit/sumfink/sank pacific

Is everyone illiterate today, or just stupid? And before anyone starts on the dyslexia thing, I have a number of friends with learning disabilities, dyselxia being common among them and none of them make errors like this.

Eyes, it’s being misused to mean all-purpose shock and horror, not shame and embarrassment. I think the first time I saw it was on here, actually — someone said she was “mortified’ to hear a friend’s close family member had died.

Trills Well my use of ALOT was my idea of a joke in the light of the immediately previous poster using, correctly, ‘a lot’. 😀