Your most hated Mispronounced/Misused word?

[Frutos]

Do your Ducks often split then ?

My point was that there actually is a product called Duck Tape.

That's not a photoshop or anything like that, it really does exist.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

My point was that there actually is a product called Duck Tape.

That's not a photoshop or anything like that, it really does exist.

Yeah, I gathered that from your post, but was previously unaware. I think my point basically stands that the generic term is Duct Tape, not many people are talking about the brand when they say "Duck" but I am happy to be proved wrong.

 

[Don Quixote]

Love how all these amateur linguists here think they know what is right and what isn't right.

 

[The Large One]

Love how all these amateur linguists here think they know what is right and what isn't right.

Do you? That's nice.

Do you know different?

 

[Don Quixote]

Do you? That's nice.

Do you know different?

Yes I do.

 

[The Large One]

Yes I do.

Go on then, enlighten us.

Direct us towards the errors – all of them.

 

[Pamphlet Pete]

I seem to know a lot of people who "turn round" to speak to someone.

 

[Barn Door Billy]

'Stonewall penalty.'

Yes. What does it even mean?

 

[Digweeds Trousers]

Yes I do.

That is a very big call to make. Are you going to help us all understand our errors? All of them? In detail?

 

[1959]

I have friends with a severely disabled child who love it whenever they are "given a rest bite."

 

[Marxo]

i love ipso facto. Makes one sound like a slime ball lol.

'We'll 'take care' of your car, and ipso facto, your insurance company will buy you a new one!'

Half a bee, philosophically,
Must, ipso facto, half not be.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

If you're going to see the band Editors in concert would you say you're "Going to see Editors in concert" or "Going to see the Editors in concert" ?

 

[getreal1]

Somethink instead of something. Why do people do it? Easily sorts out the wheat from the Sun reader.

 

[British Grenadier]

The mass explosion of texting over the last decade hasn't helped either. It's a lazy, quick form of communication... Gone are the days where a kid actuallys writes a letter... I bet half of them would not even know where to write their address.

"I text him". No you bloody didn't, you sent him a text. At the very least "I texted him" would be better (even though text is not a verb).

 

[Worthingite]

The most overused word, in my opinion, is the word BANTER.

I bloody loathe it!!!! Especially when people use it after being as offensive as they please, and justifying it by going "it's ok mate, it's just banter". Banter (should) imply something comical, largely it doesn't. Only w*****s and chav's use it.

Oh and the word epic. When both are used together, it makes me very angry indeed!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

The most overused word, in my opinion, is the word BANTER.

I bloody loathe it!!!! Especially when people use it after being as offensive as they please, and justifying it by going "it's ok mate, it's just banter". Banter (should) imply something comical, largely it doesn't.

Or how about when people create a tedious thread about the average attendances of rival clubs, selectively raking over the few boring stats that supposedly put their own club in a positive light? And then they have the temerity to call it banter.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

Love how all these amateur linguists here think they know what is right and what isn't right.

Linguists study language. People who study pronunciation are called orthoepists, please learn this word. Tomorrow's lesson will focus on the phrase "hoisted by your own petard".

 

[cliveh27]

What about when people say "Jewlery" instead of "Jewellery"?

 

[Marxo]

More annoying American garble: they make terrorist sound like tourist and squirrel sound like squorl.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Aks. It's ASKS you tw@t!!!!!!!!!