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Sayings/words people get wrong
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I thought it was FOUNT of all knowledge.
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ankle grinder
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Fewer instead of less might be nice, occasionally
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In the right places of course.
Pacific annoys me too. |
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My dear departed mum-in-law once proudly showed me her new muslim curtains
Did they have a veil? |
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Grrrr... Until you tell me why they're wrong I'm going to use them: even though I've never done so before
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Oh with you. Sorry
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Though to be honest I still think they're clumsy rather than wrong
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Bloke who works with me always says Homen instead of Omen
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David Icke always pronounces the word humans as UMANS
 Prerogative regularly astonishes dumb folk that think it's me who's fcuked up with an extra 'r' in the word. |
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Using Purposefully where it means Purposely.
Or Carbonated (fizzy) for carbonised. |
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Pandorica - as long as folk know what you mean that's all that matters
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It's an interesting one though, because to be 'high' doesn't there have to be a numerical scale to represent the height? Before we had that, we couldn't have had high or low?
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Not unusual to hear someone say something like "If it got any colder I'd have hyperthermia"
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The number of supposedly educated people saying 'building up to a crescendo'!
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i just say warm weather or high temperatures as it just seems the most logical
 the problem with English is you're told by big posh s0ds there are certain spoken rules in English and then you become aware when folk don't abide by them - hence this thread . in my neck of the woods i hear such gems as... he ewe me, he brung it ,he broke sharp etc ... all the old classics .... but when you get these Public school types who can't grasp the basics ... the difference between brought and bought / fewer and less etc it does make you think a little . |
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he hung himself
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jamie redknapp's best misuse's of the word "literally"
-“The crowd behind the goal are literally going insane.” -“He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot” -‘He’s literally turned him inside out.’ -“This new ball is going quicker than ever - it literally explodes off the player’s foot.” -“That cross to Rooney was literally on a plate” |
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I get annoyed by journalists trying to show off with big words who mistake "coruscating" (which means sparkling, like a diamond) for "excoriating" (damaging or removing the surfce of something, i.e. offering severe criticism).
And echoing DStyles' annoyance with references to the hoi polloi, how about climate scientists droning on about "a weak el nino" or "strong la ninas"? |
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The posh cnts have it all to catch you out..Belvoir Castle? Beauchamp Place, Caius college, Magdalen...ET AL
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you have to love the "literally" colemanballs
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Regularly being used instead of frequently, like 'He's a regular goalscorer'
Strange that alot of these gripes are really about sports pundits. |
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Old Lady in A r g o s, asked for a George Formby grilling machine
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"The numbers are reducing." Reducing what? The word you're groping for is "falling".
"We'll grow the business." No you won't. You might grow cabbages. The business itself might grow. Your particular bullsh1tting target is to expand or improve the business. |
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But yeah the earlier one about Could of/Would of is the one that really gets my goat. There was one woman on 5 live the other night (some sportswoman I think) and she must have said Could OF at least 6 times during the interview. It wasn't as if she was saying could've either she was clearly pronouncing the word OF
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raised to the ground
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Invariably seems almost invariably misunderstood to mean "often" instead of "always".
"How has the policy effected you?" "Well, it hasn't brought me into existence, if that's what you mean. It has affected me though." "The train has been cancelled due to leaves on the line." Not quite. The cancellation was due to leaves on the line, but the train has been cancelled owing to leaves on the line. (Although that last one is probably just pedantry, which is even more annoying.) |
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Hmmm. Oxford Dict. on Google has 'due to' down as meaning because of/owing to. Could they be considered exchangeable?
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my two pet hates are:
reticent: it does not mean reluctant. we have a word for reluctant, it is "reluctant". reticent means to be silent. it comes from the latin reticere, which means "to be silent". the other one is prevalent misuse the intensive/reflexive pronoun. You do not sound more intelligent when you say it, you sound like a fool, a pretentious fool. Misuse of the accusative and nominative forms is far more forgivable and at least you're giving yourself a 50/50 chance of being right instead of 0%. |
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I just remembered one which really winds me up, and news programmes use this all the time.
"A million and a half" 1,000,000.5 as opposed to the One and a half million which they should be saying. I couldn't sleep until I posted that  |
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Locals here (west Norfolk) have compooters not computers.
And if you have a go at somebody they are not receiving abuse, they are receiving aboose. |
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Squeeze, Compooter says NO.
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It all goes well for the future.....
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Diva, 'cheap at half the price' doesn't make sense.
Indeed it doesn't as it should be "cheap at twice the price"! Order takers at takeaways..."anyfink else"? "The B's an E's" Skellington Chimley Broccori (no amount of prompting would stop my own sister fro saying that)! "Does anyone no"? That originally from a girl in the office, but it's rife on here! "To much" instead of "Too much"! "Duck Tape" instead of "Duct Tape"! "Iregardless" instead of "Regardless"! "A blessing in the skies" instead of "A blessing in disguise"! "For all intensive purposes" instead of "For all intents and purposes"! "Heighth" instead of "Height"! "Upmost" instead of "Utmost"! "Interpretate" instead of "Interpret"! "probly, prolly" instead of "Probably"! |
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Hypothermia is an interesting one. Phonetically almost identical to hyperthermia, which is its polar opposite.
I suspect that someone will already have mentioned it, but the one that really pisses me off is 'aks'. It's three letters. How retarded do you have to be to them in the wrong order? I do mean 'retarded'. I volunteer for a children's charity and those that are able to speak can manage to say 'ask', not 'aks'. |
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Minimalise.
And the one that REALLY gets on my wick, "Palletic" instead of "Paralytic" |
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"squashed"
it's quashed ffs |
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DISINTERESTED is wrongly used a lot instead of UNINTERESTED.
You can be disinterested in something but still find it very interesting. |
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I often get 'assume' and 'presume' mixed up.
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Some people don't put an 's' on the end of certain words.
"I'm going out in two week" |