Oh bliss!!

[Ijustwanttoretire]

I have just discovered this section - I am now officially addicted to MN. I will be on here all the time, day and night. I am a pedant and proud! In fact I might make a badge saying that. I would begin by stating my pet hate - but there are so many I don't know where to start... After a think I it has to be 'could of, should of, would of'

Bored Panda had a very funny quote, I think from Twitter.
Person 1: 'Queue' is literally just the letter 'Q' followed by four silent letters.
Person 2: They're not silent, they're just waiting their turn.

The one that gets me is when people write 'que'/'queue' when, from the context, they clearly mean 'cue'. Well, they probably really mean 'which led to' or 'which prompted' because I would consider a 'cue' to be a pre-arranged signal for something to happen, and I don't think anybody pre-arranges a shouty fight with their MIL.

More than three dots in an ellipsis...

I don’t, and I have Yul Brynner to thank for that!

And I thought he couldn't be more perfect!

I try not to loose my temper. I tow the line and give it free reign off my own back.

Damn you, iklboo!

@Judashascomeintosomemoney Scared to post in case of grammatical error but yes, Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera!

Onto.

I hate seeing onto written anywhere.

And *SchadenfreudePersonified - I too cannot cope when people refer to murderers being "hung".

you really should have put a comma after 'oh' in your title, OP

You really should have put a comma after 'oh' in your title, OP

And omitted the exclamation mark.

I don't think anybody pre-arranges a shouty fight with their MIL

Oh, I expect quite a few MNetters do.

I find it irrationally annoying when people mix up 'loose' and 'lose'.

Cappuccino's and Latte's on a pavement chalkboard this week.

One of the very worst imo, because it will be appear forever in the pedigrees of some of the best young horses in the world, is the racehorse American Pharoah. God, it even hurts me to write it.
mentalfloss.com/article/64778/why-american-pharoah-spelled

Also ‘noone’. NO ONE.

And people getting confused about woman/women. ‘No one’ seems to find it difficult to use the singular or plural of ‘man’ correctly.

A cyclist peddling down a mountain.
An athlete meddling at the Olympics.

@villainousbroodmare

Deep, calming breaths broodmare . . .

. . . deep . . . calming . . . breaths . . .

One of my favourite cartoons.

Wait for it, wait for it...

‘Bare with me.’

Makes my teeth actually gnash. Very prevalent on here at the moment 😬

I've recently noticed a rise in confusion over non and none too, which is really silly! Non rhymes with gone, none rhymes with bun. "None of the tickets sold, so it was a non-event."

I also keep seeing, on Mumsnet, the hideous use of an apostrophe when describing names. For example, "Oh we have lots of little Myla's running around at our nursery. " AAAARGH. AWFUL. STOP IT.

MrsFezziwig

missmouse - here in the North East both "non" and "none" rhyme with "gone"* ; any single syllable word beginning and ending with "n", and which rhymed with "bun" around this neck of the woods, would be referring to a female member of a religious order.

*Remember your inverted commas, please.

none rhymes with bun.

Not in my accent it doesn't.

People who start every sentence with 'So'. Grrr

Pictures are hung. People are hanged.

Some pictures can be said, I suppose, to be "well hung". You know: put in a position where they catch the right light and so forth.

Some men also claim...

And I don't like people saying "sekkertry" or "joolery" either...

Angels and angles referring to dead people.i have visions of coffins and protractors.

"Principal" vs "principle"

From another MN thread.
"Yet you’ll call the principle if someone is bullying your child"