Let off some steam with your 'favourite' words that people get wrong.....

[Sam Ovett]

"I'll be back momentarily" is my dad's favourite

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Has anyone noticed a chap at Withdean with 'Seaglls' on the back of his shirt?

I'm not quite sure what happened there. Ran out of the letter 'u'? Ran out of money?

 

[Norman Potting]

"Weargunna" - pronounced to rhyme with "rear gunner". This is a favourite of Politicians of all colours. What they actually mean to say is "we are going to".

Not strictly a word but one that retailers always annoy me with is "cheaper prices". One day I am going to go and ask for a dozen prices, as they are cheaper. And don't get me started on "...where quality is cheaper".

.....and relax.

 

[BensGrandad]

Football reporters who should know better pronounce Roman Abramovich as it appears when he has said many times it is pronounced as in Ro-marn Abra- movich not as in Roman (the old warriers) Ab ram o vich

 

[BadFish]

Oh, you're not alone FC: it completely does my head in too!

And don't get me started on the "AHHHHHH LOOK" that Aussie cricketers (& now a few of our own) use to start an answer or statement with. It's on a par with all that talking about yourself in the 3rd person bollox.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Not just Aussie Cricketers mate, plenty of Aussies start a sentence with "Look!" drive me nuts as does the Bogan use of yous.

Are yous coming?

 

[Waynflete]

'Alternate' when it should be 'Alternative'
'Disinterested' when it should be 'Uninterested'
'Less' when it should be 'Fewer'
Pilots saying 'we will be taking off momentarily' is a good one, too.

 

[Robdinho]

The number 'free' (one, two, FREE, four, etc.)

Also, for some reason I find it intensely irritating when commentators put on a foreign accent to pronounce foreign footballers or teams names. I can't imagine foreign commentators putting on a cod-scouse accent when talking about Jamie Carragher. Although, conversely, I would absolutely love it if they did...

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Would of instead of would have.
Pacific instead of specific
Haitch instead of aitch
Just a tadge instead of tad
The Steve Wright Show every day where he mispronounces any long word to sound like one of the common people

 

[Bakero]

'Alternate' when it should be 'Alternative'
'Disinterested' when it should be 'Uninterested'
'Less' when it should be 'Fewer'
Pilots saying 'we will be taking off momentarily' is a good one, too.

The 'less' 'fewer' example is a strange one. I know how they should be used, but because they are so commonly misused it almost seems pretentious to use them correctly eg. Waitrose's '10 items or fewer' checkout.

 

[krakatoa]

'at this moment in time' always strikes me as a long-winded and pretentious way of saying 'at the moment', or 'now'.

 

[Dave the OAP]

minellium instead of millenium

artitect instead of architect

 

[Lord Bamber]

Escape goat.

Similar to those that pronouce it A-Mex. It's Am-Ex. No one uses an A-merican Express card now do they.

Oops, didnt know I did it till now!

Finally, anything which comes out of Ray Parlour's mouth. What language does that guy speak.

 

[magoo]

"I can be asked"

It's arsed!

There was a debate in my family recently about that one. Needless to say it was WOMEN thinking it was 'asked'. They didn't seem to realise it doesn't even make any sense to say 'can't be asked!'

 

[WATFORD zero]

Frickin'

This horrible americanism makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. If you are upset use good anglo saxon f***ing, if you are not use flipping, it's not hard

 

[footychick]

arks instead of ask

I was going to put that. Not being racist here but it always seems to be black people that say it

 

[Don Quixote]

Language develops.

 

[pasty]

Not really getting the word wrong, but anyone of non-Italian extraction who uses the word "Ciao" should be shot on sight

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Not really getting the word wrong, but anyone of non-Italian extraction who uses the word "Ciao" should be shot on sight

What about people who are learning or learnt to speak Italian?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Not really getting the word wrong, but anyone of non-Italian extraction who uses the word "Ciao" should be shot on sight

What about the poor old Spanish?

 

[Badger]

One hundred fifty

NO it's one hundred AND fifty