What happened on Woman's Hour this morning?

I am always interested as to when a "wrong" becomes a "right".
When a majority say a word "wrongly"?

I heard someone the other day, out and about, use the word lose, but pronounce it as loose, eg "where did I loose my purse"?

sson it conjures up a lovely image of the person leting their purse off its lead

Oops! soon

One of my pet hates is the use of the word 'floor' for the ground outside. Floors are indoors!!!

How about schedule now skedule.

Also the newscasters who say 'At the top of the hour' - it really pi**es me off.

MiniMouse

At the top of the hour is a silly phrase.

I'm sick of hearing politicians refer to 'hard working families'. How very patronising! Grr.

At the top of the hour I haven't come across yet, but Scots (and possibly others) do refer to "the back of" an o'clock, such as "I'll be there at the back of eight" meaning a little after eight o'clock.

I think the spelling of lose is nearly a lost cause already, so maybe the pronunciation will be go next.

delete 'be'

Americans always say "nucular" for "nuclear" - drives me nuts and I've noticed it creeping in over here. Grrr

Ordinary people? Why not simply call us all plebs, if that's what MPs think – or does that apply only to policemen?

Wrong thread – whoops!

One mispronunciation that got up my nose is perpetrated by Richard Bacon on Radio 5 Live. For some reason, he always says 'varify' for 'verify'.

Grammar! 'Gets up my nose'.

While I'm here, I will point out that he perpetuates what I thought at one time he had perpetrated just once or twice. There are two verbs frequently confused.

One of our television morning news readers has considerable difficulty with foreign names, much to my delight and amusement. She has talked about the Mo-jave (soft j and rhyming with gave) Desert and a place in Africa called Nambia among numerous others. She's even managed to get areas of London wrong in spite of the two countries sharing a common language.

Euston station"Please do not take luggage on the esculator "!!!

When did 'consumed' become 'conshumed'?

Seketary, instead if secretary?

Double Grrrr.

"Americans always say "nucular" for "nuclear" "

That's because they're uncular how to pronounce it.