ect is not short for et cetera

[BlueMountainHusky]

It is etc. not bloody ect.

ECT is electroconvulsive therapy.

I have seen it on this web site literally hundreds of times this week alone.

It's like a contagious form of ignorance that is spreading like a plague.

Is it unreasonable to be driven nuts by the sheer number of people who think it's just ect.

If I don't come back, I have seen it again and my head has exploded.

@WormYourHonour

"I have seen it on this web site literally hundreds of times this week alone."

I think, in this thread about pedantry, you meant figuratively.

Unless, of course, you have counted every single ect and you counted 200 minimum..

@WormYourHonour you win! 👏👏

I can live with spelling mistakes.

But ect doesn't even make sense.

Mind you, what can you do when large swathes of kids don't see the point of English lessons and English Gcses because:"we can already speak it"?

Not to mention the kids who don't see the point of reading because:"it doesn't learn you nothing".

Guilty shoot me now!!

@JaneJeffer

Well *@Geamhradh* has also made some mistakes

Undoubtedly.

She hasn't started a thread to slag other people's English off though, has she?

I've made the same one as you.

@Pottedpalm

I have been browsing Ebay for sofas and keep seeing ‘Chase Lounge’ instead of ‘Chaise Longue’.

Are they sold with a Chester draws?

@Tilltheend99

I hate all the Americanisms. I keep seeing people referring to buying groceries! I know we used to have greengrocers but if I went to buy food I would say ‘I’m doing my shopping at the supermarket’ or ‘at the shop’ or ‘at shop name’ AIBU to think groceries sounds very American and people are watching too many box sets?

It's another example of US English being closer to the original usage/frequency of the word, while British English has changed. The original term "boxed set" had a completely different meaning to "box set". Now, they're pretty much interchangeable. Some people prefer the new form "box set".

DH’s family is from Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, US) and say needs washed (pronounced warshed).

On route?

The use of of instead of have really annoys me.

The one that annoys me the most though, is rest bite/restbite.

One thing that I think must be regional because I haven't come across it except where I live now is 'or' instead of 'oh'.
As in "Or no!" rather than "Oh no!"
I see it quite often written so it's not a one off typo sort of thing and maybe because of the way 'Oh' is spoken, it sounds like 'Or'.

It's called a typo

Evening. We think www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pedants_corner is the best place for this thread, so we're moving it there shortly.

Have none of you read Molesworth? Down with Skool, Back in the Jug Agane, ect, ect?

Saw this on Twitter tonight. Reminded me of this thread.

twitter.com/Grumpy_Oldie/status/1451267629331722244/photo/1

Swapped out. Why on earth add the 'out'? Is this an Americanism?

How discusting of them

You'd have a field day in my place of work, exema, goalstones or goldstones and swoolen to make a few. However I've drummed diarrhoea into them and they get that right.

*name a few

However I've drummed diarrhoea into them and they get that right.
Not literally I hope

@23minutesfromTulseHill

Have none of you read Molesworth? Down with Skool, Back in the Jug Agane, ect, ect?

Chiz chiz, I sa

Why 'hate' Americanisms, though? What's intrinsically worse about them than about Britishisms (although 'Britishisms' is relative given, as Geamhradh points out, many of them are how 'we' used to speak)?

And I can't help thinking being particularly annoyed by 'restbite' is rather small-minded. 'Respite' isn't a word many people encounter much in their daily lives, perhaps less so still when they're carers and don't necessarily have the leisure time for extensive reading. So you have people hearing it and rendering it as they understand it - and why ever not as 'restbite', seeing as respite is about getting some much-needed rest?

@ShesComeUndone I was wondering about the paper. So that uses the wrong spelling of feint. I wonder why that is?

@Nanasueathome

Yep BRought is to BRing And Bought is to buy

What about lose and loose?

I always have to check loose / lose in my head when writing as I’m aware it’s so easy to get wrong (for me anyway!)

Why 'hate' Americanisms, though?

I never said I did. I was simply wondering. What I do hate is the unnecessary 'out' in 'swapped out'. Poor comprehension can be irritating too.

@RobertaFirmino

Why 'hate' Americanisms, though?

I never said I did. I was simply wondering. What I do hate is the unnecessary 'out' in 'swapped out'. Poor comprehension can be irritating too.

That was in reference to tilltheend99's post.

I saw 'swapped out' used on a thread the other day and I thought it added a nuance/emphasis - 'we got rid of these (and had these instead)'. A bit like 'alone time' (which used to irritate me) is something different from 'time alone'. Of course, technically the 'out' is unnecessary. But changes to language don't usually happen for nothing.