Should of, could of but in the end just couldn't

thistledome

Is anybody else sick of hearing, "I'm liking this" instead of "I like this"? It seems to have popped up out of nowhere in the last couple of years.

Another bug-bear: When I was young (Tiddlywinks, I think most of us sound old on here - even if we're not!) people used to say something like, "....in any way whatsoever...", now they just say "whatsoever" on it's own. I haven't explained that very well, but I hear people saying, "I don't like coffee whatsoever". Am I imagining this? I don't even know why it irritates me so much, it just does.

Ah, I feel better now

moonrakerz

anamenottaken wrote: »

A couple of my pet hates:

decimate (used to describe destruction of a high proportion of something rather than 10%)

Decimate (strictly) refers to a reduction of persons, though it has spread by misuse to be applied to the reduction in numbers of many things, but it seems to have a new, wider meaning now: I heard a (BBC) TV reporter saying that Port Au Prince had been "decimated" by the earthquake !!!!

My own pet hate: people who say "nucular" instead of "nuclear" - I've often wondered how they spell it !

Kaz2904

Ah, comfortable reading through this thread.
The Aitch mix up has always driven me scatty, it's something I can't help correcting at every opportunity.
My husband likes to go for a wonder on a Sunday afternoon. On a Saturday he usually asks what we will be doing tomurrow. When I rant at him about the errors he is making he insists that there is nothing wrong with his pronounciation. He is also partial to a nice ahmlette (made with eggs) once in a while.
There are many more things that he does and says incorrectly but I'm always looked upon badly for correcting him. I'm only 31 but I'm sure that our spelling errors were corrected at school.

mickeypops

focae wrote: »

And when did they become train stations instead of railway stations?

... and when did I become a customer and not a passenger?

mickeypops

...and while I'm on a roll - there are two letter "R"s in the month of February. Half the world seems to say "Febuary."

and...

using "bring" instead of "take." As in my kid this morning asking me if he could "bring his bike to school today."

moonrakerz

mickeypops wrote: »

... and when did I become a customer and not a passenger?

A lady vicar on "Thought for the day" on Radio 4 recently came up with a good reason for that:

Being a "passenger" has connotations of travelling somewhere, being a "customer" has connotations of just handing over your money !

pimento

This one takes the biscuit. This is a photograph taken by me at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. It speaks for itself...

pimento

And yes, that is a full stop after 'found'.

Baggieboy_2

Who led the pedants' revolt?

Which Tyler

frangipan

:silenced::silenced:

Simbacat wrote: »

The one that really winds me up is when people write ect instead of etc!!! How simple is it to write those 3 little letters in the correct order!!:mad:

calm down calm down will ya!