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

’Revert back’.

Revert means back, so you’re saying back back. Just say ‘revert to’.

@SandieCollins I love this 😂 I know precisely what you mean.

@Pinkywoo of course they’re not pronounced the same. The very idea they might be makes me twitch 🤣

@JennyForeigner yes! I feel I’ve found my spiritual home 😂

Can I moan here about people saying e.g. 'ten year anniversary' instead of 'tenth anniversary'. Drives me mad.

That’s not how English works.

Agree. It's so irritating.

Border and boarder don't sound anything alike in any accent I've ever heard. Are there accents where they do sound alike? I could never fathom how people used the wrong one on here.

On the other, clique/click and rein/reign sound the same to me.

Essex / London here and border and boarder are pronounced exactly the same.

I grew up in Somerset and now in Home Counties - boarder and border sound exactly the same - baw-duh sort of thing. Not sure how they could sound different, can’t be to do with rhotic/non rhotic as they have the same amount of Rs and you’re not going to be rhotic for one and not for the other. Do you pronounce the -oa digraph and -o differently then?

Please enlighten as am walking around the house saying ‘boarder’ in various accents driving myself mad 😄

Hello all share your pain re misuse of click / clique as many ‘cliques’ are actually ‘claques’ 👍🏿☘️

I grew up in Somerset and now in Home Counties - boarder and border sound exactly the same - baw-duh sort of thing. Not sure how they could sound different, can’t be to do with rhotic/non rhotic as they have the same amount of Rs and you’re not going to be rhotic for one and not for the other. Do you pronounce the -oa digraph and -o differently then?

Yes @MassiveSalad22
I'm in Scotland and border is pronounced with aw sound as in 'awful'.
Boarder pronounced with o sound as in 'no'

Yep, in my accent (south east with a northern mother!) boarder/border and rein/reign/rain sound the same, but clique is pronounced cleek rather than click.

I have an east midlands accent and both parents are from the south east. Boarder border sound the same. Rain rein reign are all the same. Clique and click are completely different. “Cleek and click”

@Pinkywoo

click is the American version.
you are saying the correct way for English!

Rein and reign sound the same for me.

Having spent 10 minutes saying clique and click, I realised they don't actually sound the same when I say them. I do say something a bit more like cleeck, so not quite cleek but not click either.

Border and boarder don't sound anything alike in any accent I've ever heard.

That can only be true if you’ve never heard any accents from London or Sussex/Hampshire/Berkshire/Essex/Hertfordshire/Kent! In the vast majority of SE accents, border and boarder sound exactly the same. Much as bored and board sound the same in SE accents.

Plus every midlands accent. In fact I suspect pretty much all English and welsh accents

I've certainly heard some of those accents but we've obviously never discussed either borders or boarders.

Well, definitely not boarders, although I would have thought borders might have come up.

"Much as bored and board sound the same in SE accents.*

They sound the same to me too but boarder and border sound completely different.

Interesting. What is your accent @OchonAgusOchonOh? I’m finding it hard to imagine how can boarder and border can sound different! (I mean, I believe you, I just can’t imagine it).

Same @waterlego I’m no clearer 😄 MN needs an audio record function!

I know. It can be hard to imagine sometimes😁 I'm the same wrt imagining them sounding the same.

I'm Irish.

I feel like I'm the odd one out at work as I see so much "your" instead of "you're", "should of" and the other examples already written. It makes me feel old and alone for wanting it to be written correctly.