I've been making a list...

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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

This made me cringe in Tesco the other day…!

That's shocking on both counts. Does no-one proof read the final design?

Clearly not! They seem to have known an apostrophe was required somewhere, but got it so very wrong.

@eldorado02 please tell me you tweeted them!

I wrote to Kumala Wine when I was a teenager to correct them on "great on it's own or with fish" and they did so!

Hope they sent you a free bottle of wine as a thank you! (Note the use of “free bottle of wine” as opposed to the ubiquitous “free gift” which also frustrates me 😉)

@eldorado02 - this is incredible! It’s one thing to be sloppy on an Internet forum, but it’s appalling on an item that is actually for sale!

As a complete aside, I like your user name :)

@Sistanotcista yes, some wine randomly turned up. Never got the actual letter though saying "thanks for correcting us" which I would have cherished!

My little list today involves 'zero'. They are not wrong but I do wish that instead of "We've had zero millimetres of rain" he had said, "We haven't had any rain" and I wish that instead of "I would make sure that we had zero tolerance" she had said, "I would make sure that we had no tolerance" or " I would make sure that we didn't have any tolerance."

Mind you "zero fucks were given" etc is quite funny!

Today's irritation:
Using "12pm" for midday and "12am" for midnight.
Makes no sense as "12" exactly is the tiny point in time where it is neither am nor pm!
Just say "12 noon" or "12 midnight".

Not RTFT, but this is in the OP:
PRONOUNCIATION

@PedantScorner apologies, yes I have been corrected already! I make no claim to be perfect myself!

What's with this "stomping" I see these days? Is it the same as what I call "stamping"?

On another thread "I borrowed my friend £300" when she means she "lent" her friend £300.

You stamp your foot, but you stomp around like a giant monster. Probably. It's onomatopoeic, innit.

I saw the borrowed one and rolled my eyes.

I stomp everywhere and have been known to stomp off, but I rarely stamp my feet.

Sorry, OP, it's actually 'Pedants' corner', not 'Pedant's corner' - unless you're claiming it's just for you? ;)

Isn't it for me, @Inextremis ?

The meaning of decimated has changed because the incorrect usage became normalised.
To the OP list, you could add:
curb for kerb
except for accept
viscous for vicious
councilling for counselling, councillor for counsellor

All very good and all noted!! Thank you!!

Has anyone said the use of "les s" when it should be *fewer" yet?

That is up there with should of/ would of/ could of for me.

My suggestions would be:

”Heals” for “heels”
”Sandles” for “sandals”
A stag, hen or similar “doo”
Make-up “pallets”

I seem to be seeing past and passed used wrongly a lot lately. It annoys me far more than it should

With regard (no, not regards) to curb and kerb, this is my experience of seeing the words.

In the Parish Council minutes of a small English village, about 1910, the thing which stops the footpath from falling into the road, i.e. curbs the footpath, was written 'curb'. I, living in England in 2022, am interested in that, because I had always known it as the 'kerb', until I saw the old minute book. However, in the USA in 2008, I saw a sign which used 'curb'. I think it might be an example of one of those words which went from Britain to the USA, and the USA kept it, and it changed on the British side of the Atlantic.

Can I get, gotten and haitch are all correct.

I seen, needs done etc are not correct formal usage but long established regional dialect - informal language on an internet forum is fine in my book.