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Had to get it out of my system

62 replies

NinkyNonkNausea · 26/10/2022 19:40

Came over so I wouldn't hurt anyone's feelings on the existing AIBU thread but...

Loose vs lose
Bear vs bare
Discusting
Genuinely vs generally
Then vs than
Draw vs drawer
Lend vs borrow
Bought vs brought

Aaaagh!!!

OP posts:
Pumpkinpatchlookinggood · 26/10/2022 19:42

Can I add waldrobe not wardrobe?
*ds 27!!

titchy · 26/10/2022 19:45

Pacific v specific
Would/should/could of v ...have

RuthW · 26/10/2022 19:46

Gotten drives me mad

NinkyNonkNausea · 26/10/2022 19:46

titchy · 26/10/2022 19:45

Pacific v specific
Would/should/could of v ...have

I couldn't find a vomit emoji but you get the picture

OP posts:
iklboo · 26/10/2022 19:48

Won v beat -

'We won them at football'

That's nice dear, what shelf are you putting them on?

PAFMO · 26/10/2022 19:48

"discusting" is a MN in-joke.
Nothing wrong with "gotten"

TheLeadbetterLife · 26/10/2022 19:49

Been and seen instead of being and seeing.

YellowAndGreenToBeSeen · 26/10/2022 19:50

‘Bring’ instead of ‘take’

Theres a post where someone is suggesting, about an event taking place in the future, the OP asks someone to take her to an address:

’can’t you ask him to bring you to your friends?’

Drives me bonkers. I shout ‘TAKE! It’s TAKE!!’ whenever I see it and I see it a lot on here.

Pinkflipflop85 · 26/10/2022 19:50

Hi and he's. I had to unfollow a friend on social media as I could no longer stand reading post after post with these mixed up.

"Look at he's cute little face. His so happy with the new Teddy..."

JenniferBarkley · 26/10/2022 19:50

PAFMO · 26/10/2022 19:48

"discusting" is a MN in-joke.
Nothing wrong with "gotten"

This.

I mean, there was a (nother, tedious) gotten thread within the past week or so, in this section. I'm going to put that as my irritation.

orangeisthenewpuce · 26/10/2022 19:50

Gotten sets my teeth on edge

Castaspell · 26/10/2022 19:50

It's the "we was" for me. "We was out shopping."

Pinkflipflop85 · 26/10/2022 19:50

Grr - autocorrect cut the s off of my first his.

JenniferBarkley · 26/10/2022 19:50

YellowAndGreenToBeSeen · 26/10/2022 19:50

‘Bring’ instead of ‘take’

Theres a post where someone is suggesting, about an event taking place in the future, the OP asks someone to take her to an address:

’can’t you ask him to bring you to your friends?’

Drives me bonkers. I shout ‘TAKE! It’s TAKE!!’ whenever I see it and I see it a lot on here.

Bring is normal usage in Ireland.

RiftGibbon · 26/10/2022 19:51

Rediculous
Accept/Except
Affect/Effect
There/Their/Their
Were/Where
His/He's
Past/Passed

America12 · 26/10/2022 19:52

I was sat there

floridaplanner · 26/10/2022 19:53

When people interchange off and of

When my husband says Pacific instead of specific

GerronBuzanDoThaWomwok · 26/10/2022 19:53

different than......
anyways.....
I didn't do nowt....
😜

YellowAndGreenToBeSeen · 26/10/2022 19:53

It’s colloquial yes, but it’s still grammatically incorrect. Just like (as above) ‘his’ and ‘hes’ is used a lot in Essex - still incorrect.

JenniferBarkley · 26/10/2022 19:54

YellowAndGreenToBeSeen · 26/10/2022 19:53

It’s colloquial yes, but it’s still grammatically incorrect. Just like (as above) ‘his’ and ‘hes’ is used a lot in Essex - still incorrect.

No it isn't. It's not what you would say or what most people where you're from would say, and that's fine. But it's correct in Hiberno English.

GerronBuzanDoThaWomwok · 26/10/2022 19:54

she borrowed me a tenner😫

RiftGibbon · 26/10/2022 19:54

Also:
Alot (a lot)
Aswell (as we)

Why do people do this?

GerronBuzanDoThaWomwok · 26/10/2022 19:55

Becoz their stupid?😂

JenniferBarkley · 26/10/2022 19:57

Extract from everyone's favourite source, wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-English

Bring and take: Irish use of these words differs from that of British English because it follows the Irish grammar for beir and tóg. English usage is determined by direction; a person determines Irish usage. So, in English, one takes "from here to there", and brings it "to here from there". In Irish, a person takes only when accepting a transfer of possession of the object from someone else – and a person brings at all other times, irrespective of direction (to or from).

Don't forget to bring your umbrella with you when you leave.
(To a child) Hold my hand: I don't want someone to take you.

JamieFrasersBigSwingingKilt · 26/10/2022 20:01

Mute point instead of moot.
Excessive and incorrect use of 'myself'.
Aarrggh!!!

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