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'

It's not dialect.
In part of this country, people will loan something from you and fetch it back later.
These people went to a shop and brought some things then bought them home.

hitting him on the arm and leaving a red roar lump

That poster is blind & using voice software.

To feel uncomfortable with regards to Drag

Thread title from this evening.

Are you sending greetings to Drag, OP?

It's "with regard to" you stupid, uneducated moron.

Oh well.

It looks like I have been severely reprimanded for being a pedant.

May I add actual and literally to the hated words list?
I literally am sick of hearing or reading the actual word literally in nearly every actual sentence. It's not the actual word that annoys me but the fact that it literally is overused.
It is creeping into everything. The actual creep of the actual words into literally every actual sentence. The actual word is just making me literally read a pointless actual word that literally adds nothing to the actual sentence.
Aaargh!

'For free'.

I recently saw a notice in a car park advising users that the building adjoining the car park was a “private resident’s”.

BikeRunSki

Was it a large, luxurious building?

What a fortunate resident.

But unpleasant sneering and calling people 'uneducated' and 'moron' is very unedifying and really says more about you than them

It also says a good deal about your apparent lack of humour.

TheMustressMhor

Setting a president?

You need to name and shame the thread, MikeUniformMike - who mentioned setting presidents?

We should be told.

I think I would need councilling.

Like with could of etc, do these people understand the language they speak?

In tact, high rate ...

I could do with some councilling myself this morning.

I have another sleepless night so I frittered away my time spent most of it on MN.

I found too many errors to document here.

I am considering starting a Pedants' Club. Anyone who wishes to be considered for membership should send me a hundred quid.

Go on. You know you want to.

Chester draws for sale. A favourite.
Ex boyfriend pronounced ‘perhaps’ as ‘prehaps.’ It irritated me so much.

It looks like I have been severely reprimanded for being a pedant.

Your pedantry was correcting "with regard to" - I don't think anyone has a problem with that on Pedants' Corner.

Your reprimand was for calling someone a "stupid, uneducated moron" - I can't see the humour in that at all, and it jars with the usual respect shown on this board.

In any case, many of us make mistakes or fall short of using formal English when typing on a forum like this. I don't believe you can infer stupidity or lack of education from one slip (or even a few slips), so I think it's reasonable to ask for a bit more graciousness to other posters.

Bloody hell.

I definitely need councilling now.

councilling

Are we back in the Middle Ages?

@TheMustressMhor

It was quite the opposite!

Chester draws is quite a common one. I say drawer as draw-uh and layer as lay-uh, bit some people say drawer as draw and layer as lair.

I had an insane vision of MikeUniformMike making a lair in layers of underwear, for some reason.

DH has dissuaded me from having councilling. He reminded me that the last lot was a sad waste of money, and rolled me a fag instead.