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Pedants' corner

Nothing actually wrong with these but..........

265 replies

butterpuffed · 07/04/2025 17:39

............. I hate them!

Having the ick

You do you .

Being the boss of you/him/her

Are there any that you feel strongly about?

OP posts:
wordywitch · 07/04/2025 18:34

‘And just like that, she was [insert age]’ when referring to a child’s birthday on social media

Love you to the moon and back

Mouthfeel 🤮

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 07/04/2025 18:37

Oh, and I hate 'on the down low'. Used to mean 'in secret' which has fewer words and is faster to say.

And anything to do with someone's 'lived truth'.

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 18:38

MajorCarolDanvers · 07/04/2025 18:34

That is the British pronunciation.

It's the wrong pronunciation.

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 18:39

Long story short, used several times in a long post on Mumsnet

Or fast forward, ditto

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 18:41

Spaghetti bolognaise instead of bolognese

RobinHeartella · 07/04/2025 18:44

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 18:38

It's the wrong pronunciation.

Do you pronounce the S in Paris...? How do you pronounce manoeuvre, is it more like manoover or manerve?

Foreign words can have an English pronunciation that isn't always the same as in their original language.

FleaBeeBob · 07/04/2025 18:44

Being my authentic self - how bloody tiring it must be not be you 24/7 anyway

making memories - ugh

I will think/talk about <dead person> every single day of my life - no you won’t because life will eventually be to the way

Person died surrounded by friends and family - what every single who has ever died

if person left me I’d never cope - yes you would, you would pull yourself together and get on it with it

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 18:46

RobinHeartella · 07/04/2025 18:44

Do you pronounce the S in Paris...? How do you pronounce manoeuvre, is it more like manoover or manerve?

Foreign words can have an English pronunciation that isn't always the same as in their original language.

They can, but bruschetta is a very recent Italian import and so there is no reason not to say broosketta. Unless you are wilfully ignorant.

proximalhumerous · 07/04/2025 18:49

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 18:04

Not using spaces after commas,this is so annoying,or too many spaces , like this , drives me wild!

And brackets ( like this ).

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 18:51

proximalhumerous · 07/04/2025 18:49

And brackets ( like this ).

And ... really idiosyncratic... punctuation ....
Like " this "

proximalhumerous · 07/04/2025 18:52

FleaBeeBob · 07/04/2025 18:44

Being my authentic self - how bloody tiring it must be not be you 24/7 anyway

making memories - ugh

I will think/talk about <dead person> every single day of my life - no you won’t because life will eventually be to the way

Person died surrounded by friends and family - what every single who has ever died

if person left me I’d never cope - yes you would, you would pull yourself together and get on it with it

As this is Pedants' Corner, can I point out that each of your paragraphs contains at least one typo!

Acheyelbows · 07/04/2025 18:52

Unreal!!!

Not gonna lie

Beast

Very annoying when text or vocalised.

proximalhumerous · 07/04/2025 18:53

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 18:51

And ... really idiosyncratic... punctuation ....
Like " this "

I've posted about exactly this before. I find it intensely irritating, and it always (to me, at least) makes the writer sound slightly deranged.

ohnowwhatcanitbe · 07/04/2025 18:55

Woah, that is sick!

proximalhumerous · 07/04/2025 18:56

Someone in my family has started signing cards with, "How lucky we are, that you are ours. We love you today and always." Makes me absolutely heave.

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 18:59

"As a family" - who not just say I'd like us to go together? As a family has a really rigid, suffocating ring to it

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 19:01

It's the luck of the drawer

I found it in my draws

I done it right away (or should that be right of way?)

Lest we not forget

Restbite!!!!

Arlanymor · 07/04/2025 19:04

proximalhumerous · 07/04/2025 18:56

Someone in my family has started signing cards with, "How lucky we are, that you are ours. We love you today and always." Makes me absolutely heave.

Oh you've reminded me of one: "I love you to the moon and back."

Stop it. Stop it now!

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 19:05

Upmost

Thoughtsonstuff · 07/04/2025 19:05

I did not realise there was a Pedant's Corner!!!! This is fantastic!! Obviously I now can't remember a single one of the things that have annoyed me (of which there are loads) but I'm so enjoying everyone's posts.

Bbq1 · 07/04/2025 19:07

Alot, written as one word. It's two.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 07/04/2025 19:07

Forever home - sounds like a plastic toy, probably bright pink, heavily promoted in the run up to Christmas

Friendship group - what's wrong with 'friends'?

Research when the person using it means 'I did an internet search'.

Source when they mean 'I found one I liked at an affordable price and I bought it'.

Curate when applied to anything other than putting together a museum or art gallery collection.

RobinHeartella · 07/04/2025 19:07

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 18:46

They can, but bruschetta is a very recent Italian import and so there is no reason not to say broosketta. Unless you are wilfully ignorant.

I don't think you know what the word ignorant means. It is possible to know the Italian pronunciation but choose to use the English pronunciation when speaking English.

I wonder how disapproving you are about some of the pronunciations used in other languages of words borrowed from English, particularly languages with fewer phonemes.

You call it ignorant to use English pronunciation but maybe there is some ignorance here of how languages work...?

It's like when people insist that "octopi" is the correct plural for octopus...

Smallmercies · 07/04/2025 19:09

RobinHeartella · 07/04/2025 19:07

I don't think you know what the word ignorant means. It is possible to know the Italian pronunciation but choose to use the English pronunciation when speaking English.

I wonder how disapproving you are about some of the pronunciations used in other languages of words borrowed from English, particularly languages with fewer phonemes.

You call it ignorant to use English pronunciation but maybe there is some ignorance here of how languages work...?

It's like when people insist that "octopi" is the correct plural for octopus...

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-samsung-rvo1&source=android-browser&q=bruschetta+pronunciation+uk

QED

Google Search

https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung-rvo1&ie=UTF-8&q=bruschetta+pronunciation+uk&source=android-browser

proximalhumerous · 07/04/2025 19:09

Arlanymor · 07/04/2025 19:04

Oh you've reminded me of one: "I love you to the moon and back."

Stop it. Stop it now!

Yes, they use that too.

I mean come on, have a sentiment that wasn't scripted by Hallmark!