Mispronunciation/ Poor grammar that annoys you?

Tokyo

I've turned my hand to a few jobs over the years, and while living overseas I spent a few years teaching English as a means to fund my travels, working alongside teachers from all over the world. I can only assume that it's a product of the environment, but the more time I spent teaching there, the more irritated I found myself getting when other teachers would make basic English mistakes.

I appreciate that regionalisms and dialects are a natural phenomenon, but ones that particularly grate for me are:

• Irregardless.
• On accident.
• "pacific" for "specific", (as in "How long will it take to fix this pacific problem?").
• Aks instead of ask (it hurts just typing it)

...or the one that drives me absolutely bat****....
"I could care less." (I COULDN'T CARE LESS, you mean. You DON'T care. If you could care less, that means you care SOMEWHAT.)

Is it just me, or does anybody else have any mispronunciation or grammar pet hate that drives them up the wall?

Penny Tration

'Could of.'

Does my head in, although I'm not usually a grammar Nazi.

I find myself regularly wanting to correct my boyfriend when he uses 'your' instead of 'you're,' too.

MJ23

Millon and Billon. Usually by big muck savage politicians.

kneemos

Is there not a forum for this shoite?

Stavros Murphy

"tats" on fb and in texts. "Tats grand". There's a h ffs, a h. How hard would it be??

Ihatecuddles

The specific/pacific one is the only one that bothers me. My brother is a fecker for it!! He seems to say it a lot too and gets annoyed when I correct him.

Tokyo

green_screen wrote: »

'Could of.'

Does my head in, although I'm not usually a grammar Nazi.

I find myself regularly wanting to correct my boyfriend when he uses 'your' instead of 'you're,' too.

heh - don't get me started on their/there/they're and your/you're

BNMC

Loose/lose.

Penny Tration

mike_ie wrote: »

heh - don't get me started on their/there/they're and your/you're

I don't mind their/there/they're much, tbh. Your and you're are a pet hate, though.

I'm proud of my restraint, though. I've never yet corrected him :pac:

'Pronounciation' instead of 'pronunciation'. Drives me UP THE WALL. Especially when people look at me as if I'm an idiot for saying 'pronunciation' or even worse, CORRECT ME! :mad:

Ihatecuddles

The to/two/too mix ups annoy me a little bit.

Thought/taught as well.

Admldj

Cousind for cousin, demond for demon and the best was anti fast instead of acti fast

shopaholic01

An apostrophe used in plural words, e.g. word's.

sopretty

green_screen wrote: »

I don't mind their/there/they're much, tbh. Your and you're are a pet hate, though.

I'm proud of my restraint, though. I've never yet corrected him :pac:

A new one I'm hearing more and more in the media recently is 'He's' for 'his'.

FFS 'I' has a different sound to 'E'.

So if you pronounce it like 'He's', then you confuse me as I'm wondering what HE has done while you're speaking.......

Cookie_Monster

mauzo! wrote: »

The specific/pacific one is the only one that bothers me. My brother is a fecker for it!! He seems to say it a lot too and gets annoyed when I correct him.

what pacifically bothers you about it

HeidiHeidi

Nucular instead of nuclear

shopaholic01

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Nuclear instead of nuclear

eh?

Yamanoto

Chicargo

What's all that about?

Ihatecuddles

Expresso!

HeidiHeidi

shopaholic01 wrote: »

eh?

Feckin autocorrect! Edited accordingly!

pablo128

Aks is a favourite from our 'roving copper gathering gentlemen of the road'.

RayM

BNMC wrote: »

Loose/lose.

"your such a looser"

I don't understand why so many adults basically have sub-primary school levels of literacy. If you can't tell the difference between 'have' and 'of' you should be ashamed of yourself.

demanufactured

D instead of The

I seen a misspell on a sign.
My dog braked lose.
I done the shopping.
We was in the mall.
I'm defiantly in the top ten percent of my class in collage, becos I'm so articulated.
I get told that alot.
Comma,s used as apostrophes.
Thiers more I could of wrote, but I'm abit tried.

dxhound2005

BNMC wrote: »

Loose/lose.

That's a misspelling, not poor grammar or mispronunciation. And very understanable too. Think of some poor foreigner learning English being told that Loose rhymes with Goose but not with Choose. But Choose rhymes with Lose. But Lose does not rhyme with Dose or Hose or Nose or Pose or Rose.

The Backwards Man

Candie wrote: »

I seen a misspell on a sign.
My dog braked lose.
I done the shopping.
We was in the mall.
I'm defiantly in the top ten percent of my class in collage, becos I'm so articulated.
I get told that alot.
Comma,s used as apostrophes.
Thiers more I could of wrote, but I'm abit tried.

Your funny.

The Backwards Man

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Your funny.

Funny strange or funny haha?

Penny Tration

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Your funny.

You are two. I wouldn't of taught of that

Ihatecuddles

dxhound2005 wrote: »

That's a misspelling, not poor grammar or mispronunciation. And very understanable too. Think of some poor foreigner learning English being told that Loose rhymes with Goose but not with Choose. But Choose rhymes with Lose. But Lose does not rhyme with Dose or Hose or Nose or Pose or Rose.

Its not just people learning English though, they can be forgiven. Its people whose first language is English!

GopErthike

I took two Solfadene??? Aaarrrrghhh!

LynnGrace

I seen and I done...

Ihatecuddles

LynnGrace wrote: »

I seen and I done...

I saw what you did there...

The Backwards Man

Candie wrote: »

Funny strange or funny haha?

Both, probly

chinacup

Helicocter - my dad
Ejite - my dad
=(

Frosty McSnowballs

I'm not fussed by all this lark. Once the point gets across, then I'm happy.

Stiletto72

Myriad of....

Sir Osis of Liver.

Heard 'stable diet' recently.

Isn't that what horses eat?

dxhound2005

Stiletto72 wrote: »

Myriad of....

Mispronunciation? Poor grammar?

The Backwards Man

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Heard 'stable diet' recently.

Isn't that what horses eat?

Supposably.

Acedia.

More and more, I see people leaving the "ed" out at the end of words. E.g. "I'm bias against him" and "She text me yesterday".
It doesn't annoy me. It just seems really strange.

pauldla

Beizhing, as beloved by newscasters. It's Beijing, as in Jingle Bells.

The Backwards Man

Actually, this thread reminds of a funny thing happened on Friday.

I was at the post office when this American gentleman enters and asks the postmaster if he knows of a Boyle family in the locality, as he was trying to locate his long lost cousins. Postmaster said he didn't as he was new to the area but the postman was just filling his bag outside and to ask him.

So out the man goes and asks the postie; 'Excuse me sir, I was wondering if you could tell me if you have any Boyles on your route?'

The postman, a bit taken aback, replies 'No, but I had one on the back of my neck once'

Potential-Monke

Before the recent Ireland Rugby game (where someone apparently was retiring and the whole of Ireland seemed to suddenly become Rugby historians), I was witness to someone on my Facebook feed asking his entire friend population to ejaculate on the Emerald Isle, ie: "cum on Ireland".

Actually, abbreviations that have a history from "txt spk" wreck my bulb. I understand the internet ones, but that's mostly because it's sentences or a combination of a few words put into letters, ie: LMAO, ROFL, FWIW, IMO. I can't stand people who remove, or change words completely, just to save themselves from pressing a few extra keys/taps, like U for you, lik for like, spk for speak, an so on.

The evolution of language seems to be heading in the direction of "spell it how it sounds".

Sam Kade

Quirk instead of Cork :rolleyes:

dxhound2005

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Actually, this thread reminds of a funny thing happened on Friday.

I was at the post office when this American gentleman enters and asks the postmaster if he knows of a Boyle family in the locality, as he was trying to locate his long lost cousins. Postmaster said he didn't as he was new to the area but the postman was just filling his bag outside and to ask him.

So out the man goes and asks the postie; 'Excuse me sir, I was wondering if you could tell me if you have any Boyles on your route?'

The postman, a bit taken aback, replies 'No, but I had one on the back of my neck once'

Happened on Friday, did it? You were lucky to be in the vicinity to pick up this gem.

The Backwards Man

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Happened on Friday, did it? You were lucky to be in the vicinity to pick up this gem.

The world is full of strange coincidences.

Yamanoto

Yamanoto wrote: »

Chicargo

What's all that about?

Likewise 'Thighland'

Hermy

Far too many instances of library being pronounced liberry.

chinacup

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

I'm not fussed by all this lark. Once the point gets across, then I'm happy.

Aren't you mature? =D

Sam Kade

Baltimore in Cork everyone is calling it balltimore (bawltimore) nowadays :rolleyes:

championc

mike_ie wrote: »

heh - don't get me started on their/there/they're and your/you're

Too right. I recently pointed out about 6 mistakes in one paragraph which was posted on a thread on Boards.

The post was deleted and I got a warning for basically picking on the poster