Please bare with me

[TheShellBeach]

See also "I am defiantly not pregnant".

[TheShellBeach]

"Off of". Or just "off", when the writer means "from".

I got a load of shopping off of Amazon.

[Tessisme]

One foul swoop ... gah!!!

I'm not sure I agree with @viques about the lyrics of Chasing Cars. I thought when he sang

'If I just lay
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me .,, etc?'

that he meant 'If I were to lie ...' rather than straightforward present tense, otherwise why would he suddenly change to 'lie' in the last line? And then there is the fact he is from NI and we just don't say 'lay' instead of 'lie'. We mash up plenty of other words, but not that one🤣🤣

[CallieQ]

My bad...

Hate that 🙄

[ErrolTheDragon]

@ageingdisgracefully

Coronated.

Is it an actual word? Seems to be quite common now.

It gets used by Americans to mean 'crowned' but the latter is standard. However, "coronate” means “crown-shaped,” and has various uses in biology.
And then there's this...

www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/22129/Coronated

[ErrolTheDragon]

Discreet for discrete and vice versa.

[CaroleFuckingBaskin]

Escape goat

I love you all the world

[Blueberrycreampie]

Local Facebook site: Thieves in the airier to steal someone's catholic converter!

[Sunbird24]

@ErrolTheDragon

It gets used by Americans to mean 'crowned' but the latter is standard. However, "coronate” means “crown-shaped,” and has various uses in biology.
And then there's this...

www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/22129/Coronated

But then the Americans also gave us the abomination that is ‘burglarized’. For a country that usually puts fewer letters in their words than we do, you’d think they would have stuck with burgled!

[GerronBuzanDoThaWomwok]

anyways 🙃
noowkiller
desert spoon
to be fair

[CavalierApproach]

One I’ve seen a lot that irrationally annoys me (all the more irrationally because I can understand why people get it wrong) is ‘barbeque’.

[DuncanBiscuits]

I’ve just read ‘upmost secrecy’ on the BBC news website.

Are we in the end times now? Please tell me I’m not imagining it should be ‘utmost’?

[EnyoClytemnestra]

@SenecaFallsRedux

Gotten

"Gotten" is correct in American English. I'm American so I use it.

Yes, it is American. But with apologies, it is an ugly and unnecessary word (as is got), and English people thinking they are cool by adopting it (an other US phrases), are delusional.
I've 6 apples is gramatically correct (I have 6 apples) Saying I've 'got' is unnecessary

[EnyoClytemnestra]

first noted in NZ, but becoming more common here is 'are you waiting on me/him/them?'. No, I am waiting for....

[TheShellBeach]

@GerronBuzanDoThaWomwok

anyways 🙃
noowkiller
desert spoon
to be fair

I don't understand "noowkiller'.

[ErrolTheDragon]

I don't understand "noowkiller'.

I think that's a transliteration of how a lot of people mispronounce 'nuclear'. I don't understand it - afaik people don't have the same problem with 'nucleus'.

[HeidiWhole]

My DD says 'I was sat' and 'I was stood' which drives me up the wall.
I correct her every time; I can't help it.

[SiobhanSharpe]

I really dislike seeing discrete used wrongly for discreet. Some people clearly don't know they are two distinct words with separate (discrete!) meanings.
I also get a strong impression 'discrete' is considered a posher or better way of spelling discreet. 🙄

[Cheeseandabsolutelycrackers]

That's a neat Segway into...

[ErrolTheDragon]

@SiobhanSharpe

I really dislike seeing discrete used wrongly for discreet. Some people clearly don't know they are two distinct words with separate (discrete!) meanings.
I also get a strong impression 'discrete' is considered a posher or better way of spelling discreet. 🙄

Funnier the other way round. Discreet energy levels ... as opposed to degenerate maybe? (don't worry if you don't get that one)

[SiobhanSharpe]

On got/get/gotten - I despair of hearing people say 'can i get a coffee' because it sounds abrupt and verging on rudeness. Especially as the request doesn't often include the word 'please.'
It seems we've completely lost the 'may I have' construction and 'can I have' or even 'I'd like a coffee' are both going the same way.
(And I'd be physically unable to say either without including a 'please' at the beginning or end of the sentence. Hard-wired, innit? 😆)
I'm a bit more relaxed about 'gotten' after being lectured about it on here. But I could point out that while it's ok in American English, it's considered a tad archaic in English English...

[JenniferBarkley]

Can I get and gotten both completely normal in Ireland and I'm guessing Scotland.

My bugbear is people describing MN as social media.

[SiobhanSharpe]

I'm not in Scotland or Northern Ireland but in England it seems it is almost entirely younger people who say 'can i get' so it sounds rather more like social contagion or US influence than regional usage or dialect.

[Blueberrycreampie]

Another I've seen recently is formally instead of formerly, eg visit Speedyshop,(formally Quickshop).

[Hoppinggreen]

Discreet and discrete is one I see often, I have even seen it in actual books!

[brusselspout]

The sun is shinning