'The word pedants' top 10 | It's specific, not Pacific...' blog discussion.

patricia50

My pet hates are when people write "chest of draws" instead of "chest of drawers" IT HAS DRAWERS ...NOT DRAWS!!! and grown adults who say "hospickle" instead of hospital....grow up!

tindella

Olokia - how can a word without an (not "a"!) "h" at the front of it be pronounced as if it has? Sorry - you are incorrect. The other way around - with an "h" but pronounced without - as in "honour" can be correct. Please don't tell me you pronounced it "Honour" - or, even worse, spell it "honor".

Niemand

gitw wrote: »

My sister is always asking me to 'borrow' her money.

That's very good of her to offer. I hope you don't borrow too much from her.

Niemand

Neil_of_Stevenage wrote: »

If people are not corrected they never "learn".

Quite often, when I am out walking, a car will stop and the driver will wind down his window and ask "Do you know how to get to XXX?"

"Yes, thank you", I reply and walk on.

So after you've confirmed to him that you know the way, you walk away and miss his question "Can you tell me, please?"

Brydav

tabbycat2k wrote: »

Aaaargh - one of my pet hates - you can borrow money FROM somebody, not OFF somebody!!!!!!!

Thank you Tabbycat! I was going to make that point myself but thought I had better check first that no one had beaten me to it - and you had! :beer:

IndieSinger

Let's not forget, though, that "pacific" and "pacifically" is a word as well. Sometimes (just sometimes) the user may well mean "pacifically" (which means "peacefully") so don't be so hasty to correct!

I've used "pacifically" in a sentence before and someone jumped in to tell me how much they hate it when people say the word "specifically" wrong. But I wasn't saying it wrong, I meant "pacifically"..!

Karina_Marshall

The one that really drives me nuts (that a lot of people disagree with me over) is "If you think that, you've got another thing coming".

It's think, not thing!

malinky

I always have to correct people when i hear them say "I `aint got nothing" If you have not got nothing, then you must have somethig!
But even when it`s explained to them they still don`t get it.
And will someone please tell people that the word "Bath" does not have the letter "R" in it!

matt38

Having recently succumbed to peer pressure to use Facebook, I am (not literally) stunned by the number of apostrophes swarming all over the screen, in use everywhere except where they should be! Thi’s include’s one person who alway’s insist’s on using apostrophe’s before every single ‘s’ at the end of word’s. My poor brain can't make any sense of these posts...

“Thi is include is one person who alway is insist is on using apostrophe is before every single ‘s’ at the end of word is...”

What on earth is that supposed to mean? I wish I could blame teenagers but these miscreants are adults!

I think I am going to loose my mind... (another misuse which seems to prevail now more than ever before)

malinky

Sign seen today at Sainbury`s "Fresh Flavoured Milk" You cannot have `Fresh Flavoured Milk` ...you can have `Flavoured Fresh Milk`.:)