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.

From Why Britain’s smallest house is OUTRAGING Tripadvisor visitors (msn.com)

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• my point is that its in wales only no were else in wales to the boarder to England so not in "England" in "Wales" only , if they had said in United Kingdom then that would have been right would it not then David marsh.
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• for one its in wales witch as everyone knows is not in England last time i checked or Britain , its in wales only no where else , not Scotland or island either.
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• Britains smaillest house is in Ambleside Nastassja .
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"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?"

Hi @Amantissima, I can assure you that this mistake is in daily use all over this part of the UK by the ignorant, unobservant and dyslexic.

Lots of the eco posts around now with people who can’t stand ‘waist’

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I thought "nob" came from "noble"?

But I might have got that idea from reading too much Terry Pratchett, and as much as I love his use of words, his SPAG isn't perfect (and nor is his copyeditor's). For example he doesn't understand the meaning of "nonplussed" at all, and in the first editions of Sourcery (hardback and paperback), he referred to the Librarian as an "orang outang".

Pedants' Corner has always been the place for posters who love the language.

Grammar police not welcome!!

Discussing the latest annoyance (promulgated by careless typing, over-zealous auto correct, ignorance or just plain error (such as we all make)) is however fine.

Trends in how languages develop can be fascinating. And we're seeing a slightly different kind of change now, possibly arising from what the tech does plus the new ability to post worldwide direct from the individual (very little proofreading)

I'm sure there are many of us who only read these threads to look for mistakes in the op's posts. Disappointing it wasn't in the opening post but didn't have long to wait.😜

I've seen pitchers for pictures this morning.
Many mention their 'waste' or 'heals' on Style & Beauty threads.

Grammar police not welcome!! The grammar police posters are welcome but excessive exclaamation marks are not.

Grammar police - posters who use SPAG to denigrate others - have never in the past been welcome on this board. To date, it's been a place where those of us who love the language congregate to chat about it. And where those who want help with usage can ask for it and receive helpful replies.

Is that really no longer to be the case?

It's Pedants' Corner! Isn't it a place for pedants?

The Mail Online today has an article about a lovely woman in the US who is 101 years' old. She is smart, bright, well-spoken and looks great - retired from nursing at 85! The article quotes her as saying that 'servitude' and being 'serviceable' has contributed to her longevity.

I clicked on the video of her 100 birthday celebrations last year and the woman says no such thing.

She said being 'of service' to others - that's not servitude or being serviceable!

@Amantissima
"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 grew up in Dalston, East London between 1965 and 1975 and this was rife, then...
Floor was routinely used as a word for the ground outside.
I like your example of this confusion using 'sky' and 'ceiling'.