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

And checking it twice?

I’ve also trained my DP out of saying l “can I get...” because he knows it irks me! He’s now a “please may I have...” man. 😁

The teens say "I'll take a ..." now. Just awful.

DonateBloodNCheckSmokeAlarms That's a long list. All of those things piss me off, too.

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor adding that one to list! "I'll take a...."

@WhackingPhoenix i meant more situations where some slimy git is using my name purposefully to build a rapport with me and either shag me or sell me something like he learned on some crummy course!

Someone on my Facebook page often puts little bragging posts. The latest was that her kid had managed to swim so many METERS. 😂

"Me and my sister " "my sister and me" - for "My sister and I "
Ect. instead of etcetera or etc.

I have been told I am wrong for saying "my sister and I" - by an English teacher, who tells me "it's all new rules now".

Pronounciation instead of pronunciation !

What I've noticed lately that is driving me wild and I don't understand where it's come from...

"It needs replaced" (for example).

It needs TO BE replaced. Then I thought maybe it's about saving word counts online etc. but then you can use 'it needs replacing'. It's one more character!

Anyone else?

Just me?

Has no one freaked out seeing the link I posted? <whines childishly for attention>

Also my grandmother used to admonish me for using the word 'got', she said it was completely unnecessary and there is always an alternative word that can be used.
Now it grates me to hear people use it and I realise she was (nearly) always right but I feel like the only person in the world with this particular

...gripe.

Hmm... could I add:
You're/your (autocorrect is very bad at this one though)
They're/there/their
Feint instead of faint
Which/that (usually which instead of that)
Comma splice
Hanging clause/dangling modifier (common mistake by newsreaders – or their scriptwriters – recently)
And when I was writing the above, the sad demise of the dash occurred to me (almost always replaced by a hyphen)

This is a fun game!

I believe decimate can mean "to destroy".

Just checked. Tasted bile in my mouth. Maybe that is the nonsense the card is referring to?

Most people who get it wrong seem to think that ‘queue’ is spelled ‘que’, not ‘cue’. It just makes me think of Manuel from Fawlty Towers (maybe they’re all from Barcelona)

'Generally' used instead of 'genuinely'

[cringe] Ironically, the card is being sold to benefit an educational charity…

The two I hate most are it's for its and getting rein/reign wrong. That's because I often see professional writers I admire getting them wrong and the fact that I get them right just underlines the fact that I am not a writer, just a boring, old pedant!

I genuinely wonder why people put apostrophes places, they don't know what they're there for, what are they putting them there for? I can't get my head around using a punctuation mark just for decoration. HOw do they read? Do they understand anything they read? When they see an apostrophe how do they interpret it? And if they don't know the uses for there, their, they're, its, it's etc. then what are they comprehending when they read things?

It's baffling and scary to me that people are walking around having a completely different experience of life where words don't make complete sense. I feel like they must have wild misconceptions all the time?

Okay, then explain the rules.

Thanks! I have several friends turning 50 this year who will be really annoyed with this! 😈

I teach English abroad and none of my students have problems with apostrophes because the rules are so simple!

I hate with a vengeance overuse of the word like.

For example

I was like on like Mumsnet at like 8:43PM and I was like typing this.

😡