If I hear these one more time......

I've only recently joined Gransnet and came across this section and this thread and I LOVE it. A place for pedants to be pedantic without criticism - lovely! I read through the whole thread.

Another two of my bugbears which don't seem to be covered are: prevaricate and procrastinate. Many use the former when they mean the latter.

The other two are infer and imply. Again people use the former when they mean the latter.

In both cases they don't understand the meanings of the words.

Pleased to have somewhere to say this and no-one will think I'm odd.

I wear my badge with pride...

"Can I get?" would be very slightly more acceptable if followed by "please"!

I don't mind 'scent' or 'perfume' but 'fragrance' sets my teeth on edge. Using it as a verb, 'fragranced,' is even worse...

Watch Eastenders, and you'll see the Fox family saying AKS instead of ASK. "I'll aks him" ??????????????????

I stick to my great aunts rules, a lounge belongs to airports, if only one room and a kitchen then it's a living room, lavatory and scent - we are not French ! pudding.

'I have been on a journey' noooo you have not, you have been on some ghastly celebrity show

"For free" just doesn't make sense. It is free or it's not!

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She obviously thinks she is more important than her government.

But if she had started with "My /The government ... " , I bet she would still have used a plural verb, and the discussion would now be about that!

True, grumppa, so what else should we expect?

I agree with "the government", dj. She just chose the worst available option, like her choice of Foreign Secretary.

What's wrong with just saying "the government"?
After all, she is just part of the government. It might be better for her if she did not try to make herself sound more important than the government.
My government and I might sound terrible, but it is grammatically correct.

But "my government and I" sounds terrible too. A bit like "my husband and I". And it's not her government anyway. It's ours, unfortunately.

Mrs May saying "What me and my government are about is...."
She realised that she had said the wrong thing but did not know how to correct herself.

A reporter on a sports programme said a winner had been ' medaled' ?

The use of 'lay down' instead of 'lie down'.

'Loose' instead of 'lose'.

'Floor' instead of 'ground' (outside).

'Train station' instead of 'railway station'.

How about getting a pet 'spaded'?

Sitting room for me pollyperkins think you must be Downton Abbey posh to have a drawing room.

Like LadyO - in our local Freecycle postings you often see ' Chester draws' wanted! Grrrr!

Its also posher to say scent instead of perfume and napkin insread of serviette. Mantlepiece is wrong but I cant remember what is right!
I get round lavatory v toilet by saying loo! And is it front room, lounge, sitting room or drawing room? I say living room to try and be neutral.

I've thought of another! The mash up of generally and genuinely everyone seems to use these days, as in 'I geneurinly like.......'

"On the weekend" is one of my pet hates! When did "at the weekend" disappear?

Free instead of three

And lavatory not toilet, pudding not dessert, its a minefield being posh.