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

I am taking a brake from online dating.

I have seen this one far too many times lately.

an apostrophe on anything that ends with s or is plural
que instead of queue
his instead of he's

Although I'd always write "clique", I actually quite seeing "click", "clicky" etc. Always feels quite 1950s to me, possibly as a result of reading old boarding school stories which used "click" (it's definitely not a new thing).

Quite like "ect" as well because it reminds me of Molesworth.

One I see a lot on social media and on here is...

'I could care less'

It's couldn't care less!! If you could care less, then you would!

Here here!

I offer you...

Solubal Azprin

Nitch is the American pronunciation too.

I just commented on the home schooling thread and am prepared to be piled on/deleted/shot!

My personal bugbear is how people refer to electricity as electric. Given the times we're in, I suspect I'm going to have to block out all discussions about the cost of 'my electric'.

In my case, that would not be incorrect . I spend all day long wondering about the house thinking 'What did I come into the kitchen/bedroom/sitting room for...?'

But it still bugs me when I see it. Same with phase or phased instead of faze and fazed.

I like to make Winnie the Pooh jokes whenever I see this.

Post on local Facebook page about someone not picking up Pooh in the local park. I post that it was Christopher Robin or Tigger. They never get it but it entertains me.

Or cue instead of queue.

I'm finding myself frequently wondering around the house contemplating the electric but I refuse to be phased by it.

Is clique pronounced click in some accents? In mine they sound totally different so when I see it written down I’m outraged but if they were pronounced the same then it’s less jarring to see click rather than clique.

That would be one I'd possibly get wrong.

Whilst I understand the angst I think it comes from a slightly old fashioned contraction of ‘electric bill’.

We had a sittee instead of a settee yesterday, but I am sure that was an intentional wind up.

Meh, I can’t get worked up over spelling or grammar mistakes.

Not everyone is a good speller, has English as a first language and some people are use voice to text.

Hoards/Hordes of people 😖

Exactly. Language evolves - it is a tool that is meant to be useful.

You know what people mean when they say 'click' and it's not like there aren't 10,000 other homonyms in the English language. I think you can handle it.

You need to get over it, OP, language changes to whatever is the most useful/ popular - always has and always will.

(from someone with a Linguistics degree!)

"I wasn't phased"
"It was bazaar"

I've seen these two used more than a handful of times on MN recently.

Having a Pooh! This made me laugh. Strangely appropriate. Honeypot being another name for a chamber pot or bucket toilet.

Clique/click are not homonyms though. They are neither spelt nor pronounced the same (in the UK, at least), and they have entirely discrete meanings.

Many of the other examples on here relate to the incorrect use of homophones (bear / bare, border / boarder, here / hear) but clique / click I see in a slightly different way.

Clique: is a French word that means the sound click or a latch. It's use in French relating to a group of people who considered themselves as such is either related to their clicking together or the noise they make when talking to each other. There is also reference to claquers who were groups of people placed in theatres to cheer and clap during performances.

Using Click as an English translation as a word to describe a similar group of people would make perfect sense.

If we were to pronounce all words that have been derived from French with French pronunciation (this one for example!) our English language would sound very different indeed.

I had a tutor who airily informed the group that Wordsworth's 'semi-rhyming' of matter and water was an example of some form of clashing rhyme scheme or other. Except in Cumberland dialect, as spoken by my granda, water is pronounced with a very flat a - watter- so it did rhyme. I didn't point this out as he was very scary and it was my first week at uni

Absolutely. Worth noting that the OED lists "click" as a variant of "clique", first usage 1813.