It's clique not click!

[Pinkywoo]

I'm so sick of seeing this, there's not a cool mum click, it's a clique, and they're not clicky (well if their joints are anything like mine they might be) they're cliquey! and breathe

My gran used to say the same thing, telling me about the time she'd mispronounced the name Penelope as a small child, having only ever read it in books.

I've always said the same to my kids. I correct them kindly and day never to feel bad about mispronouncing a word you've learned through reading.

I realised the other day it might be because people ‘click’ with one another, eg they gel, they’re on the same wavelength. But clique is not pronounced the same as click, unless you’re American apparently!

But clique is not pronounced the same as click, unless you’re American apparently!

I was just going to say that in the USA they're often pronounced the same but clique retains it's spelling.

This also drives me crazy! So glad I'm not the only one! Agree that you feel mean correcting people, so perhaps this is where you might get that impression of 95% of people accepting the change; it could be 5% happy with it and 95% silently seething politely like me.

Someone writing that they are 'on route' going somewhere rather than 'en route' really bugs me!

And that's an excellent point about the link with 'clicking' with someone. False etymology supports this kind of thing so of people think clique means you click with someone, then of course they'll get the spelling wrong!

You are defiantly right.

Yes on route… and fucking ‘per say’!!!!!!!! People do it to look clever and end up looking silly.

There was an escape goat in the wild on a recent thread.

Sneak Peak 😡

If 95% of English speakers used 'click' instead of 'clique', it would still be wrong. It’s not the right word.

If 95% of English speakers use click not clique, is it still wrong?

YES! Yes, it is! Always and forever!
And breathe….

I always notice this one:

Prostrate means lying flat

Prostate is something completely different

I itch to correct it, but because it’s often used in the context of discussing prostatic cancer it seems mean to point it out.

I find "please bare with me" mildly irritating. Is the speaker asking others to join them in the nude ?!

I hope it's something that happens here more than among the general population.

Like the apostrophes that are randomly sprinkled around for what seem purely decorative purposes.

Click is the American pronunciation, hence creeping in fast via young people, along with all the other American nonsense bastardisations of English/French. Some of them make me laugh, like “n rout” for en route. But mostly I wince.

That saying makes my teeth itch

I’d say about 75% of UK English speakers think it’s could of, should of, would of - does that mean we have to start accepting that’s correct too?

I tend to do a double-take when someone says they can't bare something. The concept of them being desperate to cast their clothes off brings up the most incongruous pictures.

No it's not - just people saying it wrong.

Yes!

Also wish people would stop writing peak when they mean pique.

I'm also annoyed by this! And as @Pussycat22 says the ect instead of etc. is also very irritating. Ect makes no sense at all.

😂 sorry!

🤣

And that specialist interest - that niche belief? It's definitely (not defiantly) pronounced neesh not nitch.