It really gets up my goat!

Aka Love it!

As do I

Actually, I don't think Ariadne was suggesting that we tell someone to say it correctly. I think she was answering the question about whether one would copy them or say something correctly.

My grandson says "tink and lorry (articulated lorry ). The front part is the tink and the back part is the lorry.

My DHs family all say "one hegg or two for breakfast"

I had a friend who always said 'cool calm and collective'.
Never told her, just enjoyed it.

A friend in Kenya referred to an 'articulated giraffe'. For the uninitiated, this beast is 'a reticulated giraffe'.

DH's husband was proud of the fact that he was an alkerolic. We find it difficult to say properly now.

DH's HUSBAND, kitty ???

Thank you, kitty! I would not dream of intentionally "belittling" anyone by correcting them in public or in private (apart from Theseus) and am somewhat sad that anyone would think I might. Memo to self - explain exactly what I mean.

I have a friend who used to talk about a bit of a " duja veh".

These are so funny. I have heard many of them over the years. pacific instead of specific drives me nuts. My next door neighbour's holiday hotel room had panasonic views apparently.

My parents had a friend who used to say "I won't fornicate to anyone" and I've never been quite sure what exactly she had in mind. They also lived next door to someone who invariably said Christ-mas, sounding the t in a strong, spitty way.

The letter H pronounced "haitch"

Access instead of excess when talking about insurance details

Petition instead of partition in buildings

Oh YES * yogagran* haitching drives me mad, as does pronouncing the 'l' in almond!!

Affect instead of effect, or the other way!

Lovely contributions, many thanks!

I think that we all know someone who either mispronounces words or uses the wrong one.
(KatyK I too had a friend who said Panasonic when meaning panoramic, also told me about a fish in Egypt that is so poisonous that if you even touched it's utensils you would be ill, believed in mahogany, and swore that her spare glasses made her look like Dave Haemorrhage !)

And of course little ones words and phrases are often so charming and/or funny!

goose a bit like "Play it again Sam"?

Right now the things getting "up my goat" are the mis-quoted sayings, I even heard one on Radio 4 today, problem is, I can't remember what it was. I think I might have the beginning of that "Old Timers" disease. (Another favourite of the friend I mentioned)

Of course we could always stray into new territory (a long held Gransnet tradition) of either mixed metaphors or mangled sayings.

One of my personal favourites (and apologies in advance to those who might be offended) is "Does the Pope shit in the woods?"

In the firing line. Those are the people who have the guns, i.e. firing squad. If you are in trouble, you are in the line of fire.

I also sigh when people say prevaricate but mean procrastinate. Prevaricate is being evasive – just this side of lying – while procrastinate means to put off doing something. Similarly coruscate – to sparkle either literally or figuratively – and excoriate – to criticise harshly (figuratively).

DH's uncle phoenix

Our manager tells us that new volunteers have to be accreditated before they can work on their own and that the rules are quite pedantic about that.

Advocados. The envirolment. Statellites

People who say 'I've come with my stomach/heart/leg etc' also ones who state that they've got blood pressure! (I'd be worried if they hadn't)

A waitress in a pub in wednesbury who also asked 'do you lot want the thick or the mine strone doctors?'
This was at our Monday monthly lunches where the choice was always brown Windsor or minestrone soup

I remember trying to keep a straight face when in my first post a patient said 'I've had this knee for a long time'!!

Misuse of "infer" when meaning "imply" always irritates!