Common Mistakes...

[Lips_Pearls]

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...

Yes very true but we don't say;
"Did you Dyson today?"
"Did you Dyson dry your hands in the gents earlier?"

We have a local company that drives around in this massive van and it's called 'Plum Center'..... Every time I see it, I so desperately want to ring their customer services number, or pull the driver over. Damn, it even drove my father in-law to road rage :grin:

 

[Deleted member 3411]

Pet hate... all, I mean ALL now say me and my mates, me n Mum, me and Jane.... FFS it's my friends and I, Mum and I, Jane and I.....

 

[Baldrick]

Funny when typing I'll write "he said/She said". When speaking I'll say "he's a gate/she's a gate" e.g

I went to the shop and saw John
I wa a gate "what you doing here?"
and he's a gate "oh I just moved house".

What's all that about? must be Yorkshire dialect.

X

P.s and how many people actually move a house. Surely you move into a house

 

[Deleted member 3411]

Messing with words is Dyson with death.....

 

[fincon]

Yes very true but we don't say;
"Did you Dyson today?"
"Did you Dyson dry your hands in the gents earlier?"

We have a local company that drives around in this massive van and it's called 'Plum Center'..... Every time I see it, I so desperately want to ring their customer services number, or pull the driver over. Damn, it even drove my father in-law to road rage :grin:

Yeah, Hoover, Google, etc., tends to happen with new tech or a new invention, where one brand is SO ubiquitous that the brand becomes the act itself. If anything, I’m surprised that biro didn’t only become the accepted noun for a cheap pen, but didn’t become the verb as well.

 

[Deleted member 3411]

Spend many an hour explain to my lovely Brazilian wife why North England have different words. Love our language, having 5 roots or origin gives us so many opportunities.

 

[Baldrick]

I don't know what a noun or verb is . It's one of them things that you know, you should know, but everybody else seems to know and you don't want to look a tit and ask. I suppose I could've just 'Googled' it but I never got 'round' to it

X

 

[Deleted member 3411]

I don't know what a noun or verb is . It's one of them things that you know, you should know, but everybody else seems to know and you don't want to look a bit and ask. I suppose I could've just 'Googled' it but I never got 'round' to it

X

Even though I aspire to be an author I do get confused by literary words. I try not to be a purist, as far as I'm concerned WHAT I say is the thing that is important.

 

[Lips_Pearls]

I don't know what a noun or verb is . It's one of them things that you know, you should know, but everybody else seems to know and you don't want to look a tit and ask. I suppose I could've just 'Googled' it but I never got 'round' to it

X

Ahhh it's not mostly about that tbh, but more about correct grammar in approach I think. More about knowing your OWN language before accepting someone else's because you have a smart phone which dictates to you, what language you are speaking/typing.
There's a massive difference between dyslexia and laziness for example. Just as there's a massive difference between ignorance and bliss.

 

[Tiger]

One of my pet hates, putting the extra letters at the end of things such as “tated” for example disorientated instead of Disoriented

 

[fincon]

One of my pet hates, putting the extra letters at the end of things such as “tated” for example disorientated instead of Disoriented

For ages I thought it was ‘adaption” because something was ‘adapted’ from something else... instead of, y’know, adaptation.

 

[Baldrick]

For ages I thought it was ‘adaption” because something was ‘adapted’ from something else... instead of, y’know, adaptation.

It doesn't help when the English language constantly contradicts it's own rules like the old 'I before e except after c' shite. That rule is often quoted and often wrong.
Also
Wednesday
February

What's all that about? I blame the Romans

X

 

[Sammy]

I'm dreadful I can't pronounce my "th"
it's a d - dat dis
Thunder - tunder

I have tried over the years to correct it , my three sounds like tree,

it's usually a source of great amusement and I'm
Asked to say 33 1/3

I'm also bad with chatting in "text " or text how I speak i.e. I want to say earlier I can't say me "th's"

Yes all bad habits

Equally it's the pot calling the kettle black when my kids speak in a broad Scottish accent to my horror I cringe

Another one is when I say the letter R it sounds like or it can get confusing on the phone

We are definitely loosing the art of speaking correctly or writing correctly or even writing itself

My mammy sent me to elocution lesson lol lol hilarious
What a feckin waste
Sx

 

[Deleted member 3411]

I'm dreadful I can't pronounce my "th"
it's a d - dat dis
Thunder - tunder

I have tried over the years to correct it , my three sounds like tree,

it's usually a source of great amusement and I'm
Asked to say 33 1/3

I'm also bad with chatting in "text " or text how I speak i.e. I want to say earlier I can't say me "th's"

Yes all bad habits

Equally it's the pot calling the kettle black when my kids speak in a broad Scottish accent to my horror I cringe

Another one is when I say the letter R it sounds like or it can get confusing on the phone

We are definitely loosing the art of speaking correctly or writing correctly or even writing itself

My mammy sent me to elocution lesson lol lol hilarious
What a feckin waste
Sx

We won't hold it against you

 

[Looby&Lew]

Don't get me started. To an extent bad spelling and grammar I can accept....what I find really unacceptable is when public places such as a swimming pool use the wrong word....
I used to take my kids swimming every week and there was a sign that read `the management refuse to except responsibility `......Really!

In the end I could take no more and had to mention it....the sign had disappeared the following week

 

[Terryg]

I'm dreadful I can't pronounce my "th"
it's a d - dat dis
Thunder - tunder

I have tried over the years to correct it , my three sounds like tree,

it's usually a source of great amusement and I'm
Asked to say 33 1/3

I'm also bad with chatting in "text " or text how I speak i.e. I want to say earlier I can't say me "th's"

Yes all bad habits

Equally it's the pot calling the kettle black when my kids speak in a broad Scottish accent to my horror I cringe

Another one is when I say the letter R it sounds like or it can get confusing on the phone

We are definitely loosing the art of speaking correctly or writing correctly or even writing itself

My mammy sent me to elocution lesson lol lol hilarious
What a feckin waste
Sx

I bet those elocution lessons were shocking...

 

[Therapon]

Uhm interesting comments but some "Americanism" are in reality old English such as Fall, Gotten and an example above Goal.
Languages evolve, Victorian english would seem archaic to us now, medieval english pratically impossible to understand now.
What I'm trying to say is that there is a difference between grammatical errors and the actual usage of words.

 

[Lovernotfighter]

It doesn't help when the English language constantly contradicts it's own rules like the old 'I before e except after c' shite. That rule is often quoted and often wrong.
Also
Wednesday
February

What's all that about? I blame the Romans

X

The I before E thing is and always has been bunkum since more word break the rule than follow it, that didn't stop ministers from forcing it's teaching in schools presumably those were ministers who believed child needed to knuckle down and focus on the three R's of Reading, Writing (wait a minute) and Arithmetic (come on that does even sound like it starts with an R)

 

[Deleted member 1030]

the three R's

Working in primary school, we refer to those subjects as 'free arse'

 

[Looby&Lew]

Working in primary school, we refer to those subjects as 'free arse'

That sounds like something I might be interested in....

 

[opiumpair]

"I could care less".....no,no,i'ts "i could not care less".
If you could care less,it means you care to some degree.
That gets on my nerves.

 

[MP386]

I'm dreadful I can't pronounce my "th"
it's a d - dat dis
Thunder - tunder

I have tried over the years to correct it , my three sounds like tree,

it's usually a source of great amusement and I'm
Asked to say 33 1/3

I'm also bad with chatting in "text " or text how I speak i.e. I want to say earlier I can't say me "th's"

Yes all bad habits

Equally it's the pot calling the kettle black when my kids speak in a broad Scottish accent to my horror I cringe

Another one is when I say the letter R it sounds like or it can get confusing on the phone

We are definitely loosing the art of speaking correctly or writing correctly or even writing itself

My mammy sent me to elocution lesson lol lol hilarious
What a feckin waste
Sx

A little while ago when working on a site with an Irish Manager .... he found the way I pronounced 33 strange enough to take the piss .... this from a man who insisted it was tirty tree !!

 

[Sammy]

I bet those elocution lessons were shocking...

I was good at talkin at me
Elle o ma Quition class
Sx

 

[Vanezza]

I have spent years trying to train my computers dictionaries away from American English only to find that Google mix syntax more than Spooner himself. I will persevere nonetheless, one day my phone will also speak proper like wot I do

N xxx

 

[Deleted member 9631]

I have spent years trying to train my computers dictionaries away from American English only to find that Google mix syntax more than Spooner Himself. I will persevere nonetheless, one day my phone will also speak proper like wot I do

N xxx

Every time I get a new phone I have to teach it scottish. Pain in the arse.xx