I've been making a list...

[DonateBloodNCheckSmokeAlarms]

Hello

Only just found this part of Mumsnet!

Here is a list I have been compiling for a while for my own personal amusement/therapy.

Comments welcome!

APOSTROPHE ERRORS
It’s/Its
Who’s/whose
I hate Tory’s (greengrocer’s apostrophe)
Baby’s/babies (that’s my babies dummy)
Nobodies/nobody’s (nobodies business) (anybody’s, somebody’s)
Families instead of family’s
Parent’s instead of parents’
Ladies instead of lady’s
No apostrophe in "clients" so no telling whether singular or plural

SPELLING MISTAKES
Affect/effect
Bear/Bare
Alot (as one word)
Aswell (as one word)
Phased/fazed
Principal/principle
Practice/practise
Stationary/stationery (e for envelope)
Drivers license/driving licence
Should of, would of, could of/should have, would have, could have
Ect/etc
Draw for “drawer” (chester draws)
Off/of
Loose/lose
Queue/cue
Peak/pique

GRAMMATICAL ERRORS
Seen/saw
Went/gone
Done/did
Ran/run
Rang/rung
Gave/given
Came/come
Sat/sitting
Stood/Standing
Lay/lie (eg I’m having a lay-in)
Gotten/got or become
That/who (the people that…)
There’s many / “there are” many
Myself/me eg “please let myself know”
Her/she eg “her and David were able to stay”
Verbs used as nouns eg “invite” “quote”

GENERAL IGNORANCE
Decimated used wrongly (it means reduced by 10% not "destroyed")
Literally used wrongly (eg "I literally exploded")
Imply/infer
Brought/bought
Adverse/averse

PRONOUNCIATION
People who go up at the end of the sentence?
Somefink
Aks instead of ask
Not pronouncing “r” eg “fowad” instead of “forward”
Pacific
Haitch

IRRITATING WORDS OR PHRASES
Reach out
Reader, (I married him)
My lovely mum etc
…, no?
So….
….Discuss.
Look…, (sounds aggressive but Australians do it)
Listen…, (ditto)
Gifted (instead of given)
Loaned instead of lent
(name) from Accounts
Can I get…? (in restaurants etc)
People who use your name repeatedly in sentences and say “yourself” in order to endear themselves to you

that's a long list

Hahah, yeah, and I am only just beginning!

checks her spellings and grammar

Oh, I'm not perfect, believe me, but the important thing is that I think it's important and I do try!

I bet you’re fun at parties

@TheGetaway are you lost? Chat and AIBU are that way -->

Anyway I don't go to parties cos I hate them! (And am not usually invited :-D )

Someone on a WhatsApp group wrote 'prolly' instead of probably.

My husband says them instead of those. I ignore him when he does this.

I wonder why 😂

Mischievous pronounced incorrectly.

But seriously though, I wish mumsnet HQ would rename this board Pedant's corner and wait to see how many people explode 😅

But auto correct is a nightmare, I often have to change the predicted text for what I actually meant to write, and i don't proof read all my messages or posts so I'm horrified when I re-read things.

No one, not no-one or noone.

If I pronounced the R in forward I think my family would have me carted away, doesn't sound right at all 🤣

@DonateBloodNCheckSmokeAlarms, you are a person after my own heart. All those are on my list too.

I also feel sorry for shops / restaurants that have rogue apostrophes in their signs and menus. It seems no one knew any better to correct them.

His/he's

Aaaaaaaaaargh!

I can't say as I check for mistakes other than a brief glance at what I've typed (with my thumb!) and sometimes make absolute howlers I know full well to be incorrect. But on here once it's posted, that's that. It's not a document for work, I treat typing online comments like chatting down the pub with someone.

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor I'm Scottish so we have very pronounced "r"s!

Clique/click

Does it really matter?

I'm a published author, have a MA English and even so I just can't get worked up over stuff like this. There's times is does matter but in general, for informal language use, the meaning can still be understood and so the text is doing its job.

@QuestionableMouse no, it doesn't really matter in that it's not life and death. Like most things on MN. It's just a bit of light-hearted fun! And in the correct place ie "Pedant's Corner"!

When I say it ,it come out FAW WAHD!

@QuestionableMouse I assume you meant "there are times" instead of "there's times" :-)

Gifted, loaned, yourself, and can I get are my worst nightmares and thank you for this!

"Prolly" is an oft used abbreviation though.

I did wince at this greeting card...

shop.harewood.org/products/happy-birthday-50-mulberry-olive-card

There’s nothing wrong with using someone’s name when you speak to them, especially if you are dealing with something quite personal and need to keep them engaged.

I triage patients as part of my job role so I tend to call them by name during the call, as it centres the conversation around them.

“Yourself” can get to fuck, though.