It's 'tumble dryer'

[Oldh]

Not tumble drier. This is going to crop up so many times now everyone seems to be looking at ways to reduce their energy bill. Please stop. I know I am preaching to the converted on here, but it's really annoying me.

Mute point

NO

You SCRATCH an ITCH, you don't itch yourself!! A child even said it on the bloody CBeebies ballet this morning, edit it out.

and when i worked in electrical retail, we had loads of people wanting to buy Tumbler dryers not to mention the few George Formby Grills

Rest Bite - is that the hipster food truck on the Cornwall Coast Path?

Effect and affect. How can so many people get this wrong?

I am quite forgiving of a lot of the common errors because autocorrect really does conspire against us all. However, the ofs I/O haves really really make my teeth itch. They’re everywhere. No one would say I of been to the shops, or, I of bought a new handbag so why do they say I would of done etc etc (note: not ect ect ). But the one that I think I hate the most! Is the one where the OP or PP! Puts! Exclamation marks!!! At the end of!! Every!! Sentence! And sometimes! In the middle!!!!!

Tumble drier is an acceptable spelling.
Collins dictionary has tumble dryer but then says:
“in British English
or tumble drier”

I've never heard anyone say learned when they meant taught, or borrow when they meant lend. Not in real life, and not on the local Facebook groups, only on MN. Is it a dialect thing? (I've lived in the south east and Midlands).

Not just using !!!! all the time, but also those who use ellipses (...) instead of any other form of punctuation in a whole post. It actually makes posts unreadable to me.

What’s driving me mad currently is ‘payed’. The word is PAID. I don’t know where it’s come from but I’m seeing it too often now!

I have a specific work related one - a nebuliser is a machine that is used to administer nebules. Medical and nursing notes always say "gave a nebuliser" when they gave the patient a nebule and it drives me mad. It's petty though, as it is very clear what is meant by the note, so I don't correct anyone.
A few years ago our nursing notes (written by different nurses) used to say intacted instead of intact. That has stopped and I don't know why but I am relieved!

I had a thread about this a few years ago as it drives me mad. But had my head bitten off by loads of posts saying "drier" is acceptable. Why is it acceptable? I refuse to believe that What's the logic behind that?

And the misuse of ‘myself’

Send it to myself.

No. Send it to me.

@Leftbutcameback

I've never heard anyone say learned when they meant taught, or borrow when they meant lend. Not in real life, and not on the local Facebook groups, only on MN. Is it a dialect thing? (I've lived in the south east and Midlands).

I mix up borrow and lend sometimes. I know the difference, but it still happens.

Oh god, in a similar vein, I give you 'per say'! shock

And my current favourite, wallah!

'Draw'instead of drawer drives me crazy .

No. Stop it. A tumble dryer makes clothes drier. Nouns and adjectives.

@TyrannysaurusXXrightshoarder

I am quite forgiving of a lot of the common errors because autocorrect really does conspire against us all. However, the ofs I/O haves really really make my teeth itch. They’re everywhere. No one would say I of been to the shops, or, I of bought a new handbag so why do they say I would of done etc etc (note: not ect ect ). But the one that I think I hate the most! Is the one where the OP or PP! Puts! Exclamation marks!!! At the end of!! Every!! Sentence! And sometimes! In the middle!!!!!

Round here, people often say "I been to the shops" instead of "I went to" or "I have been" and if they say "would have" out loud with the same accent, it sounds like "would of" so people tend to write things phonetically. It annoys me so much, but there's no way I could say anything! Especially as some of the worst offenders are in my extended family.

@Karwomannghia

Yes! Also does no one say ageing anymore? I always see aging, even on bbc etc!

I honestly thought it was the exact opposite - I've seen 'ageing' so much more and have never spelt it like that . I'm nearly 40 I'm not exactly a youngun!

My current bugbears are things like 'carn't'. How does one type this and still thing it's correct? On a computer you'll get the squiggly line, on a phone you'll get it autocorrected.

Were/where is one I'm seeing a lot more often as well which really grinds my gears.

Criteria and phenomena used for single things.

Which criteria is it? It's a criterion.
It was such a phenomena! It wasn't, was it, it was a phenomenon.

Reminds me of the sanitary towel thread the other day when some posters used the term ''discreet 'and others had it as 'discrete'' which is a word with an entirely different meaning. (Possibly an autocorrect/spell check issue though I'd imagine.)

Nobody seems to be 'losing' weight these days. For unknown reasons, they're all 'loosing' it.

Also, why do so few people not know the difference between 'breath' and 'breathe'?

Can anyone explain the sudden (and overwhelming) popularity of "envision/envisage"?
Especially with the "myself" brigade.
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One I have seen an awful lot recently - on here and even on online articles - is "a women". Drives me nuts!
I know what you mean about focusing so much on the error that you lose track of the actual thread/article/whatever you're reading. I used to do this with audiobooks the kids used to listen to in the car. Perfectly good readers, but I'd be there, in my head, correcting how they said a particular sentence, because given the context, surely there should have been more surprise/annoyance/emphasis... in their voice. How arrogant of me - I'm not an actor, never have been, never will be - I have no right to criticise anyone else's reading style!

Is anyone else going to be calling their dryer Brian now? Just me?