A dear friend of mine very often uses the wrong, but similar sounding word, in a sentence.. Malapropism I believe it is called.. she will burst into laughter if I point it out..which I try not to do too often, but then am struggling to keep a straight face myself!... I wish I could remember her best ones but there have been so many we giggle over...
What I do find annoying though..and maybe I shouldn't... is how some of our words are disappearing completely.. my pet hate is people using the word "convince" instead of "persuade"....to me its an entirely different context... "persuade" being a softer option..more cajoling than commanding maybe....and how people sometimes substitute totally irrelevant words for the correct one...such as "are" for "our"... i.e. "when we got to are house...".. and another is "loose" instead of "lose"... i.e... "I didn't want to loose it" ..an entirely different meaning altogether...
Maybe I'm just being a moaning old minnie!
