Hare's breath

They seemed to have calmed down with using "So" on Radio 4....now all we have to do is to get rid of "at the end of the day" and "basically" on other TV stations!

I get really riled at TV ads that say something costs eg 299 PAHNDS instead of POUNDS. And the ones that just say "only 299". 299 what? Jellybeans?

How about weather people telling us it will be 'marled' instead of 'mild'.

Also, I get so angry when I hear 'sarfnoon' instead of 'this afternoon'

Another one.....people who write 'Should of" instead of "Should have"......

As someone who now preserves her sanity (just) by spending most of her waking hours acting as an unpaid grammar guru on a certain website, I find all these comments (including the misconceptions) fascinating. My own pet hate is that dissect – which, if you look at its spelling, can surely ONLY be pronounced one way – seems now to be universally pronounced as dye-sect.

I get so annoyed when i hear that something is 'for free'

Ha ha. Loving this thread! Thought it was only me that snarls in disgust at the mispronunciation on TV.
Surely the answer to "Can I get a latte?" is "I don't know, can you?"

On the request programme on Classic fm a few weeks ago, someone phoned in to ask "Can I get (X piece of music)" Grrrrrrrrrr!

Has anyone else noticed the increasing misuse of 'the' (pronounced th' ) in front of a word beginning with a vowel instead of 'thee' -- very common nowadays especially '"th' EU" instead of thee EU, th' apple and not 'thee apple. '
I always thought that was a basic tenet of grammatical speech in English! I recall learning the difference between 'th' and 'thee' in primary school.
Sadly it seems teachers cannot be arsed to correct basic grammar these days (and DH is one, and admits it! And neither does he correct spelling.....)
Also 'likely' as is 'he will likely do that' is an Americanism and is replacing 'is likely to' more and more -- but it sounds jarring and ugly to me.
As does th' extra money' etc.

How about 'would of' instead of would have, beginning answers with 'so' and 'fewer' replaced by 'less!

David Jason, in tv As Jack Frost always mispronounced " burglary" . He called it " burglary"

I'll find it hard to accept 'kneeled' and had a knee jerk reaction to hearing it on radio recently.

mags1234 did you mean 'burgalry' ?I think predictive text corrected it! ??

The use of 'uz' instead of 'us' really annoys me.

How about he use of the words ‘hence why’. It should be one or the other,but not both.
I agree with most of the sentiments on this thread and feel that it is getting worse. .

My nieces boyfriend always started his sentences with So. When I mentioned it to her she explained that he had been advised by his speech therapist to use it to give him more thinking time and relax him before speaking. He had a bad stammer.
Maybe there are a lot of stammerers around?

My teacher inthe 1960s used to say when we asked 'can we' you can, but you may not .

What about 'hung' for people instead of 'hanged' !

They was/ were sat/stood - awful and the overuse of "absolutely"

My Mum was very pedantic. She always said 'I think not' rather than ' I don't think ' eg I don't think I like that. She would say ' I think I do not like it'

I just want to smack everybody all the time - but it is frowned upon. (Sigh!)

My pet hate - the plural of you is NOT "yous"!!!!
Has me spitting "fur and feathers"

Totally agree with others about starting sentences with 'so', but my current exasperating phrase is 'going forward'.

I dislike going forward too also - forward planning, looking back in retrospect and very unique.

Youngsters and some not so young say "can I get" these days
We are being, like, Americanised!