It's 'tumble dryer'

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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.

if they genuinely think it's rest bite - and if so, why?

I think people genuinely think it’s rest bite and would actually argue against you if you said it wasn’t. It does have a logic to it - a bite of rest.

@WheresThatCatGoneNow

Sorry, FantasticFebruary!

Cross posted with you

@NoWordForFluffy

My iPhone makes me look semi-literate, at best, if I don't catch it in the act

Mine too! I think they all went to the same lessons!!

This is a great thread - some of these are absolute howlers! Thank you for the entertainment

@Nomoreusernames1244 that's brilliant! I am now in my kitchen saying wallah out loud

Just before I head out to the Coop

I have a prolific poster on my Facebook friends who puts 'ah' instead of 'I', why oh why?

@Skelligsfeathers

I hate ' use to' instead of 'used to'. I have even seen it in books which have presumably been edited.

Yes, and before I'm jumped upon and accused of unreasonable prejudice against Americans I will say that I have received many letters from a lovely lady who lives in the USA, and writes what I regard as very good letters, but she uses "use to" where I would say "used to".

@Rubyflint

And the misuse of ‘myself’

Send it to myself.

No. Send it to me.

"Myself and my daughter" NO FOR FUCK'S SAKE

I keep seeing 'I no' instead of 'I know' lately and it makes me cringe.

Words do adapt and even the wrong spelling can become the right one. I did hear a while ago that the words cord and chord have swapped their spelling and meaning. Chord “should” be cord - it’s related to the word accord, so you can see how that fits in a musical sense. Cord “should” be chord. It’s from a Greek word - chord - and means rope.

'I won him at tennis'

No! He's not been given to you as a prize.

@polkadotpjs

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

No, mine is called Ring of Dryer, and it tells my phone when it's finished

I keep seeing 'I no' instead of 'I know' lately and it makes me cringe

Better than “ano”. Had to say it in a north east accent to figure out it means I know.

@PinaColada123456

It's actually clothes dryer. The 'tumble' bit is redundant as they all tumble anyway. It's a dryer/clothes dryer everywhere else but the UK. Reading 'tumble' dryer makes my teeth itch.

Actually this is not true, you can also get spin dryers and heated clothes airers or drying pods, which dry clothes without tumbling.

It drives me mad at work on outlook if you cancel a meeting and it says ' blah blah.... meeting canceled' with one L I've messaged colleagues before saying I didn't type that, Outlook did

@CheshireCats @FantasticFebruary iPhones drive me mad with thinking they know best. Since the last update it changes my sons name from Sam to Adam every time drives me nuts and won't learn.

@courgettigreensadwater

I don't know why it doesn't 'learn' some things are correct! One friend & I have a few names between us that it does this to & so now we use 🦕or🌷type things instead of their names! Not so good for school messages etc Not sure if they work on here either

Another one that makes me cringe when I see it is 'curb' instead of 'kerb'.

@WheresThatCatGoneNow

Another one that makes me cringe when I see it is 'curb' instead of 'kerb'.

That's US English though, so not always wrong.

In the same vein as ‘use to’ is bias.

I’m not bias against something, I’m biased, surely?!

Like I’m biased against a couple of other people on a thread that I won’t name, who insist that any sort of correction of bad spelling or grammar is coming from some snotty, dim, disingenuous arsehole, not someone who maybe want to let a person know (nicely!) that the correct spelling of is and that might help next time.

@ChiefWiggumsBoy

In the same vein as ‘use to’ is bias.

I’m not bias against something, I’m biased, surely?!

Like I’m biased against a couple of other people on a thread that I won’t name, who insist that any sort of correction of bad spelling or grammar is coming from some snotty, dim, disingenuous arsehole, not someone who maybe want to let a person know (nicely!) that the correct spelling of is and that might help next time.

This is Pedants' Corner. It's where the people you are biased against post about quirky bits of language without feeling the need to humiliate someone by pointing out their mistakes on a public forum. Or it used to be, until it became another nasty corner where people who don't know nearly as much about language as they think they do come to point and laugh. For those genuinely interested in language, PC from about ten years ago and further back has some good threads. Then there was a weird demographic change and now people laugh at the poor fucker who (presumably being an end user of said "rest bite") has more going on in their lives than thinking about how to spell it.

@WiseUpJanetWeiss
No- not American. Two different meanings.
Kerb is the edge of the pavement

Curb is to keep something under control- your behaviour for example.

[quote Skelligsfeathers]@WiseUpJanetWeiss
No- not American. Two different meanings.
Kerb is the edge of the pavement

Curb is to keep something under control- your behaviour for example.[/quote]
I know the difference in British English usage. The edge of a US sidewalk is a curb.

@WheresThatCatGoneNow

Another one that makes me cringe when I see it is 'curb' instead of 'kerb'.

In an English minute book of about 120 years ago the thing between the road and the footpath is written as "curb". I was interested when I first saw it. Nowadays I would write "kerb". In 2008 I saw a sign in the USA which used the word "curb". I think it's one of those words where the USA has held on to the old word and the English have changed it. A curb curbs both the road and the pavement and stops them from falling into one another.