Saw this and thought of you!

[sanityisamyth]

Saw this this morning on SM and thought of Mumsnet!!

Thursday's episode of The Traitors was soooo frustrating! They kept talking about Clicks. My DS11 asked "shouldn't it be cliques?" Ummmm yes. If he knows it, why don't adults?!

It's unfortunately not very clear. I'll try uploading it directly 🤞





Still won't upload. It's on here!

www.grammarcheck.net/commonly-misunderstood-words-phrases/

When people pronounce it as 'clicky' it makes me imagine the group of people they're talking about making clicking sounds.

Why do people spell/ pronounce it like that?

Antique is not antick
Boutique is not boutick
Pique is not pick

I'm sure there are more.

From the link...

I would have said that "another think/g coming", literally used as figuratively, and towards are now in such common usage that they've reached the benchmark of becoming valid phrases and no longer incorrect.

I’ve heard people say it because of the other phrase that “you can click with someone” i.e. you can gel with them, feel a bond with them. So lots of people in a bonded group, a clique, gets misdescribed and mispronounced as a click, as the words appear similar and I bet it’s used more verbally than written down too.

@Talipesmum that makes sense!

British English would say that towards and afterwards are entirely correct. (Indeed, I would lean towards saying that afterward is... at the very least a bit weird.)

Conversely, clique pronounced with a short i is a regional variation of pronunciation. Ever watched Heathers?

British English would also not make such a distinction between further and farther.

British here.

I think 'peace of mind' is sometimes misunderstood as 'piece of mind' because of the similar saying (but different meaning), 'I gave them a piece of my mind', meaning I told her straight.

e.g.: For my own peace of mind, I gave them a piece of my mind.

That’s American English though, and not all the rules are the same in British English.
‘Afterwards’ is fine in British English, for example.

…ooooh ‘cliques’!!! I’m a Traitors watcher and wondered what the hell people were going on about when they talked about ‘clicks’…

Mystery solved, thanks for that.

People say SPAG doesn’t matter but I seem to spend my life baffled about what people are going on about because of this sort of thing!

And I bet all the women know it's Clineek for Clinique!

It really annoys me when people write Forward rather than Foreword as well!

The foreward is the preface or introduction to a book.

Forward is the correct spelling of forward, and is a directional word, meaning 'to go ahead'.

e.g.: step forward, or forward an email.

It's foreword, not foreward.

You're quite right, my typo!