Your most hated Mispronounced/Misused word?

[The Large One]

More, more!

We have Anne-isms. She's Austrian. Or Dutch. Or something.

• Don't go flooding it about
• Hair of the night (hair of the dog)
• There's always a little snake under the grass
• He is such a puppet (poppet)
• It's a bit skimpy on the ground
• I couldn't get bothered
• You have to make the plunge
• Mel's got more on her sleeve (up her sleeve)
• It goes from worse to worse (bad to worse)
• Why don't you go for a nicpic? (picnic)
• Is that an 'on-the-cuff' booking (off the cuff)
• I look like the last thing on earth
• They stuck it where the sun don't shine
• All that palarmy (palava)

 

[The Large One]

'Imply' and 'infer' are different things. Or rather, they're similar thing from different perspectives.

 

[The Large One]

Split infinitives are perfectly acceptable, irrespective of what snobbish, insular Latin scholars might tell you.

 

[BearwoodSeagull]

More, more!

"Oxford were docked points for playing a legitimate player"
"this is as dead as a dormouse"
"isn't there a single persons married allowance?"
"once he's got a bee in his bonnet, he's like a dog with a mouse"
"my dream team are letting goals in like a sponge"
"when he talks to me out loud"
"how far would I have got if I hadn't called you back?"
"we have got to bend some bridges"
"the nights are drawing out - I might get an extra 10 minutes under me bonnet"
"I think I'm barking up the wrong fountain here"
"what I need to know, is where I'm coming from"
"he's a pillock of the community"
"all supporters live in tinted glass greenhouses"
" you pay people monkeys, you get peanuts"
"Kylie is dead drop gorgeous"
"one of my favourite actors is johnny dieppe"
And finally in this batch....
"I'm going up to see the Blackpool hallucinations"
Oh and one encore....
"that product will be in on the 6th of Japan !"

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Wow, they're amazing. I will try a few of those at work tomorrow!

 

[pasty]

"Can I get..." instead of "May I have..."

 

[SK1NT]

This is the current discussion on LBC... interesting...

London's Biggest Conversation - LBC Radio 97.3 | LBC

 

[acrossthepond]

The use of "less" instead of "fewer"

 

[SK1NT]

The over use of obviously...

Some thing just are not obvious

 

[fruitnveg]

People who say "I need" instead of "I would like," for example: "I need a cheeseburger and a coke." No... no you don't you fat

I also agree with [MENTION=18563]BHAFC_Pandapops[/MENTION], "I could care less."

Finally, the obligatory Should of/have, you're/your, their/there/they're.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The over use of obviously...

Some thing just are not obvious

Obviously

 

[KVLT]

I also agree with [MENTION=18563]BHAFC_Pandapops[/MENTION], "I could care less."

Agreed. Similarly the old double negative such as "I didn't do nothing!"

Ipso facto you did something!

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

Agreed. Similarly the old double negative such as "I didn't do nothing!"

Ipso facto you did something!

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!'

 

[Super Steve Earle]

May I add the following?

Just a tadge for just a tad.
Changing tact for changing tack
Radio commentators who repeat 'too be fair' throughout Albion commentaries regardless of context
Very unique. You can't have degrees of unique!

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Whoops-forgot the one I hate most: Bored of. It should be bored with!!!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

May I add the following?

Just a tadge for just a tad.
Changing tact for changing tack
Radio commentators who repeat 'too be fair' throughout Albion commentaries regardless of context
Very unique. You can't have degrees of unique!

Duck Tape instead of Duct Tape always makes me laugh, too.

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

surely shirley!

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Duck Tape instead of Duct Tape always makes me laugh, too.

They're clearly quackers. Won't be when they get the Bill!

 

[Frutos]

Duck Tape instead of Duct Tape always makes me laugh, too.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Do your Ducks often split then ?