Mispronunciation/ Poor grammar that annoys you?

2013LEO

Two common ones not used correctly:

Fiance & Fiancee
Principal & Principle

And "Inconvenience" is often spelled incorrectly

Sinfonia

kingcobra wrote: »

One that really bugs me is when some English people vocally add an imaginary 'r' following a word ending in a vowel. For example "bananer" instead of "banana" or "Australia-r" instead of "Australia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents

nervous_twitch

It's spelt queue, folks. Or cue in its other sense. You have not been waiting in a massive que.

Roger Hassenforder

: and ;




http://www.apostropheabuse.com/

sunflower27

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

what pacifically bothers you about it

That is a really annoying one. Another one is mimimise.

Oh, and Thighland and Billy Jo-el. It is pronounced Billy Jowl (like Bowl).
:rolleyes::p

sunflower27

nervous_twitch wrote: »

It's spelt queue, folks. Or cue in its other sense. You have not been waiting in a massive que.

I have seen a massive cue before though.

RickyOFlaherty

My taughts are with you.

ronnie3585

People , who , think , that , there's , a , space , between , the , word , and , the , comma , or , full , stop .

:mad:

lfqnic

'Text' in the past tense: "I text her yesterday and she didn't reply".
'Tá sé fear'.
Americans use the word 'lay' very oddly: 'I'm just going to lay here'? Something like that.

lfqnic

ronnie3585 wrote: »

People , who , think , that , there's , a , space , between , the , word , and , the , comma , or , full , stop .

:mad:

At. Least. They (ok too annoying) capitalise every damn word, y'know, to be grammatical.

Gee_G

As some posters have already said, pacifically for specifically.(drives me crazy!)
Draws instead of drawers(as in chest of drawers).
Oh and I nearly forgot to mention a lovely little place called WHALES!!

iDave

'Adjective' much

oldyouth

Wexford has two, which I think are specific to the county

Hurted = I hurted my knee when I fell
Lacens = I had to tie the lacens on my shoes

My personal pet hates are millon when meaning million and com-i-tea when meaning committee

KungPao

Annoyingly rampant in Ireland: "I seen it" and "I done it".

encore1

I've "being" looking at this thread all morning

The J Stands for Jay

People who can't pronounce their th sounds but then over compensate by spelling all words beginning with a 't' as 'th'.

Thread instead of tread
Threadmill
Faith when they mean fate.

Sam Mac

People pronouncing the shop name CeX as "sex"

sligojoek

encore1 wrote: »

I've "being" looking at this thread all morning

your been very pedantic

Wibbs

"He's" instead of "his", common among some country folk and TV3 reporters.

"HeightH". Just feck off.

"Then" instead of "than", the incorrect spelling seems to follow the pronunciation. The latter stands out though, as for some reason it's often otherwise clever peeps who do it.

Choodefat

We hear reports quite a lot on radio from 'or-t-e' / 'awe-t-e',
or from 'newstork'...

wispa9

It's more often a misspelling than mispronunciation, but "defiantly" for "definitely" :mad:

wispa9

wispa9 wrote: »

It's more often a misspelling than mispronunciation, but "defiantly" for "definitely" :mad:

I think autocorrect is to blame much of the time, but I really hate that one.

I also hate it when people don't capitalise 'I'. It's less forgivable when it's someone with otherwise good grammar.

I'm guilty of frequently misspelling marraige/carraige (marriage/carriage), and prostrate/prostate, those are my personal blind spots.

coffee_cake

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

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

Sometimes the point doesn't get across, but you're apparently a terrible high horse person anyway for misunderstanding...

That fiance/fiancee thread was mental

the_syco

I'm not sure if i sea you're problem , but would venture to assume that your heigh hoarse may bee just to high?

anncoates

kneemos wrote: »

Is there not a forum for this shoite?

It's not as much fun blowing your trumpet on a niche forum with other nerds.

It has to be done in a more public, circle-jerk fashion to truly get the juices flowing.

Scartbeg

Thread/tread - obviously to do with the spoken Irish accent, bleeding over into the written form

Been/ being - just plain wrong, and rampant on Irish forums.
e.g. "He is been bullied at school". Had to correct my kids copy as the teacher apparently didn't see anything wrong with this.

women (plural) vs woman (singular)
This jars when I see it, frequently in journalistic articles.
You wouldn't say " a men was arrested yesterday" would you??

Jeep - instead of "4 by 4" or SUV. Foreigners shake their heads at this one.
I suppose its the equivalent of "hoover" as a generic appellation for all vacuum cleaners, just doesn't exist in other English speaking countries.

SprostonGreen

Do and does used for no reason.

I do normally listen to the radio.

She does always come over on a Monday.

Flippyfloppy

Dis an dat

Tis an tat

OldNotWIse

Pronounciation of "ions" as "ins"

Millins. :(

Closely followed by intentional RTE-isms "conTROversy" and "finANce".

Red Pepper

BNMC wrote: »

Loose/lose.

This one drives me nuts. Pretty sloppy too.