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(57 Posts)
kircubbin2000 Sun 16-Nov-25 08:47:30

My latest hate.

sodapop Sat 22-Nov-25 21:38:34

I agree Crossstitchfan it really irritates me too.
Another one which is cropping up lately is phased and fazed there is a different meaning.

RosieandherMaw Sat 22-Nov-25 21:45:39

butterandjam

"Queue" or "que" more illiteracy. Their off of the scale these days. I'm sat here literally fuming.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

petra Sat 22-Nov-25 22:14:10

honeyrose

One of the Radio 2 presenters regularly says “arks” instead of “ask”. Drives me nuts!

There is nothing wrong in using arks it’s what call linguistics call metathesis
There are many articles on line explaining the use of this word.
I was educated in the use of it many years ago by black friends.

Charleygirl5 Sat 22-Nov-25 22:15:00

I hear "could of" on a good day and "could of went" on a bad one.

petra Sat 22-Nov-25 22:19:00

butterandjam

"Queue" or "que" more illiteracy. Their off of the scale these days. I'm sat here literally fuming.

their off of the scale
You couldn’t make it up especially on Pendants corner.

Suki70 Sat 22-Nov-25 22:22:08

‘Use to’ is becoming common when written - ‘ I use to meet my friend on Fridays’ .

Bodach Sat 22-Nov-25 22:26:11

petra

butterandjam

"Queue" or "que" more illiteracy. Their off of the scale these days. I'm sat here literally fuming.

their off of the scale
You couldn’t make it up especially on Pendants corner.

"Pendants Corner"???
And what about the use of 'draws' instead of 'drawers'?

Allira Sat 22-Nov-25 22:28:35

petra

butterandjam

"Queue" or "que" more illiteracy. Their off of the scale these days. I'm sat here literally fuming.

their off of the scale
You couldn’t make it up especially on Pendants corner.

To be honest, that doesn't phase me at all.

Oreo Sun 23-Nov-25 09:54:27

Well I’m literally laughing myself to death reading all this 😂☠️

Versavisa Sun 23-Nov-25 10:07:16

butterandjam

"Queue" or "que" more illiteracy. Their off of the scale these days. I'm sat here literally fuming.

Well done. Don’t think you could have got that any better. 😄

CariadAgain Sun 23-Nov-25 10:23:48

I like people to use proper English so to say.

But I've swopped to my bigger dislike is when they make out/maybe even think they speak good English and they don't.

Cue for a heated discussion with a podiatrist here (in West Wales) where she kept confusing two anaesthetics and was busily rowing with me/planning to make life WAY more awkward for me because she confused LANAcane (an ointment for one purpose - and I am allergic to it) with LIDOcaine (an injectable for a totally different purpose that, as far as I know I'm not allergic to). I've checked since - and there's a totally different list of ingredients for them both and so I very much doubt I'd have found I was allergic to a 2nd thing in my life at my 70's (ie I'm obviously basically someone who doesnt have allergies). Boy did she ever have a heated row with me whilst doing what should have been a perfectly standard health questionnaire before minor foot operation!!!! She even called me "mad" !!! Cue for - not surprisingly - I'm now with a podiatrist quite some distance away from my little Welsh town and that "first language Welsh" podiatrist and he's English (so I know for a fact he's "first language English" and won't make those stupid mistakes and then yell at me for his mistakes). It's such a basic basic word podiatrists need to know - as they use LIDOcaine so often.

Wasn't too funny either the other day going into a local chemist and I couldnt see the sticking plaster and asked the young girl (in that job) behind the counter for it and she handed me something different. I said "No - sticking plaster" and she handed me something different again. Out came older woman and handed me the correct thing. I realised the young girl can't have known all the basic language to do her job at that point. We all need sticking plaster at intervals and we should all keep some in just in case.

So if someone's "first language" isn't English then = okay it isn't. But - do please know all the language connected to the job you do - especially if it's a medical type job and the word/phrase concerned is a very common one in your type of job.

JdotJ Sun 23-Nov-25 13:55:34

Starting every sentence with the word 'So ............'

Crossstitchfan Sun 23-Nov-25 14:24:14

So annoying, that. 😂 Seriously, I agree with you.

AGAA4 Sun 23-Nov-25 14:31:57

"My bad" always leaves me waiting for more. My bad leg, my bad tooth, my bad grammar.

windmill1 Sun 23-Nov-25 16:03:11

'Should of' and 'would of' and 'could of', instead of 'should have' 'would have' 'could have'

Nooooooooooo........

DollyRocker Sun 23-Nov-25 16:46:54

Quite a few people cannot pronounce create correctly and say crate. (Hard stare at you Kirsty Allsop)!

Patsy70 Sun 23-Nov-25 17:13:35

Haitch!!!! So many radio and TV presenters say this instead of aitch.
Basically at the start of every sentence.
Bored of. Should be bored with.
Fur baby! Hate it!

Plus all those already mentioned. I’m so intolerant.

hollysteers Sun 23-Nov-25 17:24:31

I dislike tongue when it’s pronounced to rhyme with tong.

friendlygingercat Sun 23-Nov-25 17:25:30

In my last appraisal with my manager before I left the job I made a mental list of the corporate BS he came out with-

I hear what your saying
We're singing from the same hym sheet
Lets circle back
We've got to look at the wider picture
I think youve lost your mojo
It is what it is
Changes in the nature of the profession
Youve got to go with the flow

Grannycool52 Sun 23-Nov-25 19:08:09

Alternate and alternative

Allira Sun 23-Nov-25 20:18:08

I've just heard an expert on the Antiques Roadshow pronounce jewellery as "joolery".
Not just once either.
😲

Allira Sun 23-Nov-25 20:19:34

friendlygingercat

Its Newspeak 😁

Allira Sun 23-Nov-25 20:21:42

It's!! 😁

Bodach Mon 24-Nov-25 10:26:17

The month of February is generally quite miserable enough without having to listen to people pronouncing (and sometimes spelling) it as 'Febuary'.

Magenta8 Thu 04-Dec-25 11:15:04

Ladyleftfieldlover

‘We’re excited to see you at 10 am on Thursday.’

A text from Specsavers about my appointment. Not sure ‘excited’ is the right word!

I have just had a message to tell me that the company that I ordered dish washer sheets from are "Just as excited as you are, to know that your order has been dispatched." Whoop-ti-do!