Common spoken & written anomalies

[Bob!]

ketch for catch

 

[Paddy B]

The one that gets me is:-

"off my own back" when the actual expression is "off my own bat"

 

[dougdeep]

ect is in fact ETC.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It's not LOS Vegas

 

[Monkey Man]

People who write "here here" when agreeing with a thread. They mean "hear hear" unless they are perhaps calling the author to heel.

Also "most nicest", "most greatest", "most biggest" etc.

 

[Gully]

The thing that gets my goat is people using the word "so" in front of something, presumably to provide some form of emphasis, for example:

You are so not going to get a piece of my chocolate.

What the hell is all that about, too many shite American comedy programmes on our TV by my reckoning, people playing copy cat thinking that it is both funny and clever.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

now then, now then --- what's that all about?

so, i turned round and said-----------eh

 

[Brightonfan1983]

My wife and her family says lots of stuff I find irritating

Architray = architrave

What's that??

 

[Tom Bombadil]

One i used to do before it was pointed out me was call Espresso, Expresso.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

My wife and her family says lots of stuff I find irritating

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This my friend is unavoidable.

 

[The Large One]

Use of the ampersand, such as 'Common written & spoken anomalies' when it really ought to be 'Common written and spoken anomalies'

Use of the words imply / infer

Use of apostrophes.

Oh, and incomplete sentences.

 

[C1 BHA]

I hate it when people say "you's two"

 

[Trufflehound]

Use of the ampersand, such as 'Common written & spoken anomalies' when it really ought to be 'Common written and spoken anomalies'

Use of the words imply / infer

Use of apostrophes.

Oh, and incomplete sentences.

Whats that' your inferring there my learned &

 

[Trufflehound]

I hate it when people say "you's two"

You'll get you's two it after a while.

 

[Highfields Seagull]

More here

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Using the word Electric, rather than electicity, as in I've just payed my Electric bill.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

"This ain't no good"

The double negative. It cancels itself out.






It was widely thought that a double positive DIDN'T cancel itself out, until one day a teacher presented this information to a class of ten year olds.

"Yeah, right", sneered one lad.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Using the word Electric, rather than electicity, as in I've just payed my Electric bill.

People who think there is such a word as "payed".

They're a funny bunch.

 

[Biscuit]

What about 'Feltch'?

Past/Presence/Future tence.

ed/ing/?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

What about 'Feltch'?

Past/Presence/Future tence.

ed/ing/?

Don't you mean "tents"?

Or is that just my Boy Scout memories coming back to haunt me?