Worn out by the weary people.

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My first thread in Pedants' corner, so I'm wary of making a mistake. I'm getting weary of seeing and hearing weary used when I think that wary is meant.

Mortified when they really mean just upset rather than embarrassed.

As a copywriter I notice these errors too frequently and have to try hard to prevent myself from correcting them. However, if I am quoting a poster I always amend the errors in the quote.

The worst ones I see are in local Facebook groups where people write how they speak. The local accent is broad Yorkshire so people actually drop the H at the beginning of words. "Av you seen my dog?" or "As anyone handed in a purse at Tesco?" There and their also frequently rear their ugly heads. Also, was instead of were -"Was you in the pub last night?"

Yes! So much so that if anyone starts a sentence with “I was mortified..” my heart sinks before they get any further.

An esteemed colleague did so last week, but then went on to say how she had been horribly humiliated. The relief!

Out the window instead of out of the window. I was always reprimanded at school for this although most people seem to say out the window

I’m very sad about the demise of “given”. Everything is gifted these days.

I always hear it in an Essex accent when I see that.

Woman where it should be women irritates me very much.

Same here but Derbyshire. Nobody I actually know says this but it's on the local Facebook group all the time.

For the same reason that a glass of wine is ‘cheeky’. Urgh.

I’m also in Yorkshire, and on a local group I saw ‘r dog’. Family members and pets are often referred to as ‘our’, pronounced ‘ar’.

The one that really, really annoys me is “rediculous” (my phone even corrected after I typed that so HOW are people getting it wrong?)

I also hate it when people use “went” incorrectly. I think I saw on here last week some say “we have went away on holiday” or something like that.

People who mix up lent and borrowed - “she borrowed me £50”

I am sure there are many more (certainly all of the previously mentioned ones on here). Don’t get me wrong, I don’t get it right all the time, so for that reason I try to bite my tongue and not correct people. My phone often puts all sorts of random spellings in when I’m typing quickly and don’t go back to check it properly! Sadly I don’t think it’s always peoples phones doing it - you can usually tell by the rest of the post if it’s likely a genuine typo/fat fingers or if the post is full of “text speak” and typos then it is likely the person genuinely thinks they are the correct spellings!

There’s a company near me called ‘Stone Affects’ - I get the rage every time I follow their bloody lorries!

Yes, I actually feel… mortified… for them!

I think the lent and borrowed thing is often regional but I agree it’s jarring.

As well as meaning at set intervals, regularly can also mean often.
It’s not a mistake, just another meaning of the word.

So a regular heart beat means ...? Just a heart that beats often as opposed to one that's, well, regular?

I worked with someone who said 'purposefully' when she meant 'purposely'.

😂
It seems some people do not know what the word ‘discrete’ actually means, so much so that we are in danger of losing the real meaning entirely. And it’s a very useful word.
I wonder if some think it’s a better or posher way to write discreet. Of course, it could equally be just a spelling mistake.

All of these. I have to avoid our local Facebook page because when I see people I have previously regarded as being all right mangling the language I lose all respect for them.

No, that’s not what I said.
The word regularly has more than one meaning, as many words do. It needs to be understood in context.

To clarify, it can mean ‘repeatedly’ without the intervals between the repetitions being prescribed.
It’s fine for someone to say they regularly find crumbs down their bra 😁
It doesn’t imply they only find them there at 9am on Tuesdays.

We won’t lose ‘discrete’ from physics and chemistry at least.

That one annoys me. Has it drifted over from the USA? For some while I've been thinking that a person might do something 'on purpose' or 'purposely' rather than 'purposefully', which I would use differently. Then a few days ago that good old word 'deliberately' came into my mind.

Not really relevant to the topic.

It is, in the sense that Keir is misspelled.