Your most hated Mispronounced/Misused word?

[Goldstone Rapper]

People who pronounce it 'stationery' when they mean 'stationary,' and vice versa.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Like. As in every sentence an under 18 year old speaks

 

[halbpro]

Free instead of Three
Fink instead of Think

I can't make my mouth sound different between free and three, and fink and think. Thor and four cause a problem also. No matter how hard I try I really can't do it. I blame growing up in a pub.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

'Stonewall penalty.'

 

[Bean]

The way some people have to say 'like' after every other word

 

[happypig]

English people that live/lived in Scotland and say "aye" instead of "yes", especially in a home counties accent.

Estate agents that say "per calendar month" rather than "per month"

 

[KVLT]

The need to use the work 'BASICALLY'

... usually used preceding anything but a basic explanation of something.

SCRAPEgoat instead of scapegoat. Also heard the rather amusing ESCAPEgoat used recently.

My worst has to be tenderhooks though. It's TENTERhooks goddamnit!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I can't make my mouth sound different between free and three, and fink and think. Thor and four cause a problem also. No matter how hard I try I really can't do it. I blame growing up in a pub.

No worries. Took me into my thirties, and help of a school teacher, before I could pronounce 'threads' correctly. Obviously, blame my Chinese ancestory, as that sound does not exist in Cantonese or Mandarin!

 

[NMH]

the misuse of the word oblivious. He was oblivious to the problems in Syria - used on Radio 4 this morning.

It means to have forgotten, it is used in place of the word ignorant.

Everytime I hear it I literally want to explode.....you know - literally into a ball of flames or somethink

I'd surmise from that, that you are oblivious to the correct use of 'oblivious'.

 

[TheJasperCo]

Any Americanism gets on my nerves.

 

[Titanic]

Decimate - the removal of one tenth.

 

[FLOG GNAW]

I can't be ARSKED to do that... I could ask you, but you might not be arsed.

I have an Itouch... no you don't, you have an Ipod Touch.

 

[WildWood]

I enjoy people accidentally using mixed metaphors. Bloke in the office used to do it all the time: "keep that under your chest" or "keep that close to your hat" being the examples that come to mind. It was then pointed out ot me that I often say "your treading on thin ground" a lot. Oh dear.

This!!! My old boss couldn't go an hour without coming out with a mixed metaphor - the main one being "dont cut your nose off to spite your throat?!" what the hell does that mean?!

 

[NMH]

Arksed instead of asked

That was my one. It be a certain types of peoples says like dat, and dey is well fick and everythin innit

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

This!!! My old boss couldn't go an hour without coming out with a mixed metaphor - the main one being "dont cut your nose off to spite your throat?!" what the hell does that mean?!

Did you used to work at Sunshine Desserts?

 

[countryman]

Americans who cannot say the word "aluminium".

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Americans who cannot say the word "aluminium".

Or 'nuclear'.

 

[daveinprague]

Any Americanism gets on my nerves.

Theres hundreds of them here. The number of times ive heard ..
'and I was like, you know, he he was like wow, and i was like, yeah, and he was like'.......aaaaarrrrggggghhhhhh please stop.



and Antartic

 

[spongy]

Americans who cannot say the word "aluminium".

This!!!!!!!

People who start a sentence with "with all due respect" annoys me, it's as if they know they're going to say something which will annoy or tell me I'm doing something wrong, but by using that phrase they've already apologised so I can't say anything back.

The good old wrong use of there, their and they're is one that particularly pisses me off, I went through my facebook the other day and corrected everyones grammar for them. Took a while.

 

[omgitsjames]

and etc. et cetera already means "and other things" so there is no need to put an 'and' before it. and also i hate it when people call it ECT instead of ETC