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

I see defiantly used all the time, in sentences like "I defiantly locked the door".

It makes me nostalgic for the days when it was just misspelled as "definately", but that's now been replaced with "defiantly".

New rules-really?? Do explain!!

Surely, it just depends on the sentence as to whether you use I or me?

Sam gave the sandwiches to Sally and me.
Sally and I ate Sam’s sandwiches.

Remove the name that’s with the me/I and see what makes sense.

I really hate the incorrect use of ‘was’-we have a couple of TAs at school that do this a lot. For example…

You was working really hard in maths today, wasn’t you?
What was you doing in the cloakroom just then?

I love this ❤

I hate it when people use "and I" instead of "and me".
"And I" is only used where you would say "I" if the other person in the sentence wasn't there, otherwise it doesn't make sense!

"DH and I went for a walk"
is correct rather than
"DH and me went for a walk"
("I went for a walk" vs "Me went for a walk")

"They bought a present for DH and I" should be
"They bought a present for DH and me"
("They bought a present for I" vs "They bought a present for me").

When I die I will come back and haunt my brother who does this all the time.

I am massively fat but I had to leave every online slimming group because every poster, in every post, wrote "loose" instead of "lose" and it wound me up to bursting point.

I think I love you OP.

I agree with all of these, except the "can I get ..." one. Sadly I do this, it's habit picked up from my circle of friends I think.

Would of/could of is the worst for me. I hate it!

I'm Scottish too and love a rolling R.

Using ‘less than’, when it should be ‘fewer than’ is very irritating as well!

@DonateBloodNCheckSmokeAlarms

"Decimate" historically means to kill one in ten (inhabitants, soldiers) in cold blood as a means to destroy an enemy. Not simply "reduce by 10%". I think the current use of it to mean flatten, destroy etc is widely accepted and has been for decades despite the origin of the word.

Noooo!

"It needs replaced" is perfectly fine in Scottish dialect.

He did explain and I was baffled. Then another lady tried explaining it to me and I was still baffled.

I have since asked a couple of other teaching contacts who said any of these variations are okay, but use of "Sally and I" is considered old fashioned.

I'll stick with being old fashioned.

I am also fat and hate this.

Literally is another one.

No, you did not literally die you fuckwit.

There have been a few threads with “gonna” and “wanna” in them recently.

use of "Sally and I" is considered old fashioned

As a teacher, I say that is bollocks…

A lot of your complaints about "pronunciation" are just cultural or down to accents.

Just because your accent pronounces Rs doesn't mean all do. It sounds ridiculous in a London accent.

Aks seems to be common amongst Afro Caribbean communities.

Is ‘Baited’ as in ‘Bated Breath’ on the list ?

Finally someone else shares my pain on this one! I see this all the time online and it makes me want to scream!

Also reminds me of wont/ want, which is equally infuriating.

Thanks everyone, I have added a few more to my list!

I think an I error I make myself is saying "the couple are" instead of "the couple is". But I am always trying to improve!

As pp have pointed out, it's "proNUNciation"... Sorry ;)

I actually don't mind most of these even though I recognise they're incorrect. I'm guilty of the occasional "Can I get..."

However I get really wound up by brought instead of bought. "I just brought a new car", aaarrgghh!

Oh and I've noticed people saying "infer" when they mean "imply", presumably because they think it sounds posher?!

<carries on adding to list and correct my own spelling thereon!>

Love Island taught me this.

Love you for this OP. Agree with all the above.

Yes, it does matter.

I love your list. The random inclusion of possessive apostrophes upsets me more than their omission.

Please may I add electric instead of electricity?