Common Mistakes...

[Lips_Pearls]

Omm.
Should of = should have.
Bet your looking forward to that = bet you're looking forward to that.
Been sunburnt is not nice = being sunburnt is not nice.
Tantalize = tantalise.
Traveling = travelling.
Favor - favour.
Favorite = favourite.
Nite = night.
Airplane = Aeroplane.
Am very sure there's so many more.....

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[Baldrick]

Whoopsie = Bollocks
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[Lips_Pearls]

Whoopsie = Bollocks
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Or simply - "oh fuck!"

 

[Baldrick]

Or simply - "oh fuck!"

I thought it was
Oh fuck = invitation

Whoopsie

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[Deleted member 3411]

Dave Gorman did a whole load of these on one of his shows. Misheard phrases..
I cringe when I hear UK kids using USA phrases....

 

[Lips_Pearls]

Dave Girl on did a whole load of these on one of his shows. Misheard phrases..
I cringe when I hear UK kids using USA phrases....

Me too. Seriously I do. Airplane... ugh.
The ize/ise thing is a massive pet hate of mine Ste. As is our/or such as favorite/favourite. We're rapidly losing our own sense of identity and losing the skills we were taught at school which has been handed down for generations.
It's the 'smart phone' generation that's screwing us all up.

 

[Baldrick]

Dave Gorman did a whole load of these on one of his shows. Misheard phrases..
I cringe when I hear UK kids using USA phrases....

My 4 year old says candy instead of sweets or spice. Makes me cringe everytime

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[Deleted member 3411]

I have heard someone say a fraudulent slip....

 

[Lips_Pearls]

My 4 year old says candy instead of sweets or spice. Makes me cringe everytime

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Oh my. Candy.... Yeah and ketchup. What? noooo.... sauce my dear boy. :ninja:

 

[Deleted member 3411]

@Pearls . Even in our youth we spelled Jail.... not Gaol. Culprit? =monopoly board.

 

[Lips_Pearls]

Oh another from the FB crew; "inbox me" how the fook can I 'inbox' you? You mean message you and send a message TO your inbox?

@Pearls . Even in our youth we spelled Jail.... not Gaol. Culprit? =monopoly board.

Spelled or spelt? hehe

Texted! What the fook? Isn't it "I text Jim" not "I texted Jim"?

 

[Deleted member 3411]

I plead immunity ... I'm dyslexic.

 

[Lips_Pearls]

I plead immunity ... I'm dyslexic.

Ahhh I know. That was tongue in cheek (as you know)

 

[Deleted member 3411]

Ahhh I know. That was tongue in cheek (as you know)

I know, and tongue in something else will gain forgiveness

 

[Lips_Pearls]

I know, and tongue in something else will gain forgiveness

Yes am quite partial to slipping my tongue in a crevice now and again. Don't mind tonsil tennis either
Mind you, it's one of those weekends where I think we both need an extra few days to recover haha

 

[Baldrick]

This is a story I was telling @debE yesterday. Now it's not a common mistake but rather a dialect mistake from a Yorkshireman (myself) speaking to a Hotel Receptionist in Dudley:

I said to the receptionist.
"Room 124?"
She said "No not really".
We looked at each other blankly for a second until I had to say "What do you think I just said?"
She says "You said Is the room too far".
I said really slowly "No...... is my Room number 124?"

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[Lips_Pearls]

This is a story I was telling @debE yesterday. Now it's not a common mistake but rather a dialect mistake from a Yorkshireman (myself) speaking to a Hotel Receptionist in Dudley:

I said to the receptionist.
"Room 124?"
She said "No not really".
We looked at each other blankly for a second until I had to say "What do you think I just said?"
She says "You said Is the room too far".
I said really slowly "No...... is my Room number 124?"

X

Oh that is some funny shit right there

 

[fincon]

Dave Gorman did a whole load of these on one of his shows. Misheard phrases.

Yeah, they’re called ‘eggcorns’

Like “from the gecko” -> from the get go

Or ‘pacific’ -> ‘specific

 

[fincon]

This is a story I was telling @debE yesterday. Now it's not a common mistake but rather a dialect mistake from a Yorkshireman (myself) speaking to a Hotel Receptionist in Dudley:

I said to the receptionist.
"Room 124?"
She said "No not really".
We looked at each other blankly for a second until I had to say "What do you think I just said?"
She says "You said Is the room too far".
I said really slowly "No...... is my Room number 124?"

X

Try asking Siri to set the timer for four minutes.

REALLY doesn’t like it...

 

[Lips_Pearls]

Yeah, they’re called ‘eggcorns’

Like “from the gecko” -> from the get go

Or ‘pacific’ -> ‘specific

Ouch!
So this is where the;
There/They're/Their thing slips in too....

'Theirs going to be some sore heads tomorrow'.

 

[fincon]

Oh another from the FB crew; "inbox me" how the fook can I 'inbox' you? You mean message you and send a message TO your inbox?


Spelled or spelt? hehe

Texted! What the fook? Isn't it "I text Jim" not "I texted Jim"?

I loathe the change from a noun to a verb.

“And today, [athelete] medalled.”

You mean, they ‘won a medal’? THEN SAY SO.

 

[fincon]

I loathe the change from a noun to a verb.

“And today, [athelete] medalled.”

You mean, they ‘won a medal’? THEN SAY SO.

That said, it’s not a recent thing. Sometimes, a trade name becomes one... no one ‘hoovered’ before Hoover started making vacuum cleaners. They vacuumed. And let’s be fair, I’d be astonished if you hadn’t ‘googled’ something...

 

[Lips_Pearls]

I loathe the change from a noun to a verb.

Same!

“And today, [athelete] medalled.”

You mean, they ‘won a medal’? THEN SAY SO.

Abso-friggin'-lutely. How the hell can you change a noun to a verb to better suit a sentence?
Theirs something wrong there

Okay okay am been contentious

 

[Deleted member 3411]

Awww sadly can't find a link to the Dave Gorman sketch. But it included such gems as "an escaped goat" and "cat phrase" scape goat, catch phrase....

 

[fincon]

Abso-friggin'-lutely

Oddly, I was reading up on precisely that the other day for a writing project: how inserting one word into another works, why it works in English, but not in some other languages, and how it developed. And how it has to be before the stressed syllable. It doesn’t work otherwise. #writerstuff