Kitchen Flaw

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That is all. I have just seen these words on another thread.
Kitchen flaw. They were referring to the floor. Not a flaw in the kitchen. The FLOOR. Words fail me.

Well aren't you lovely.

(Though I imagine if the person you're happy to start a thread about sees this one, your username is apt)

This is pedants corner.

I have a kitchen flaw, my fridge is too close to the wall so I can't open the door fully 😩

@ScentOfAMemory it's pedant's corner OP is allowed to be pedantic!

To be honest I'm not bothered. That is what this section is for.

Or rather Pedants' Corner, to allow for more than one pedant 🤪

@SmallAngryPenguinWoman I have lots of kitchen flaws too. A row of crooked tiles right beside the cooker🤦🏼‍♀️

Now let's have a pedants' argument about the difference between ground and floor. If a barn has bare earth under foot, can it still be called a floor? Is it still a floor if the roof of the barn blows off? What about if the barn walls are demolished too?

Floors are inside, grounds are outside, but flaws can be absolutely anywhere.

Maybe it was just a type, some phones do that!

A flea and a fly flew into a flue,
Said the flea ‘let us fly’
Said the fly ‘let us flee’
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

goodnight!!!

Typo!! It just happened there 😁

@3luckystars
like it, and I do sometimes get some strange things because I use a mix of typing and voice recognition so if I don’t proofread carefully, such as on MN you get close (voice recognition made close of my flaws.)

Good grief.

Pedan't corner
What is your point?

It gets worse doesn't it OP?!

Aaargh! I sympathise. I am gritting my teeth through so many 'would of' 'could of' 'should of' posts that I fear my enamel will be permanently damaged. This is my first trip to Pedants' Corner as it came up on Active. I feel I may have found a space to finally let go of the angst within.

Maybe pedants' corner should be renamed 'people interested in language' corner (hopefully someone can think of something more catchy🤔).
To avoid this sort of thing...

Love this!

Yes!!!

@Marynotsocontrary yes! Perhaps a name change would help. I wasn't trying to be mean at all. I could not believe my eyes.

The name doesn't need changing . It's for pedants !

What has changed fairly recently , is pps coming in here to point out errors made by other pps in Mumsnet . When posting about spelling/grammatical errors ,It used to be far more general ~ errors in adverts, newspapers, mistakes on websites, road signs , in shops etc.

Well I've seen "draw" instead of drawer, but flaw is a new one for me. So, thank you OP. I think your name is fine.

That's the bit I hate and would like to avoid. The pointing and laughing at other MN users, or people on Facebook etc. Even if OP didn't intend to be mean, it does come across that way.

I do hold journalists and other professional writers to a higher standard.

I'm all for this -- honestly, though, I've never encountered the confusion between 'floor' and 'ground' outside of Mn. I'm not British and no longer live in the UK. Do people actually regularly refer to what is underfoot outdoors as a 'floor'? It seems deeply weird to me. Like confusing 'sky' and 'ceiling'.

I think the barn could legitimately go either way, though.

(I've also never encountered the confusion between 'bought' and 'brought' in real life, so I think of it as a weird Mn quirk, but assuming Mn is full of actual people, presumably this weird quirk actually exists in the wild, too? How? I get that they are near-identical words, and that there are different national usages for things like the distinction between 'to take' and 'to bring', but surely the difference in meaning between 'bought' and 'brought' is so distinct, it's not an obvious confusion?)

The one that's started to get to me is nob being used for knob. As in bellend.
A nob used to be for a really posh person, possibly from nabob in India.