The worse thing.

I agree Crossstitchfan it really irritates me too.
Another one which is cropping up lately is phased and fazed there is a different meaning.

butterandjam

"Queue" or "que" more illiteracy. Their off of the scale these days. I'm sat here literally fuming.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

honeyrose

One of the Radio 2 presenters regularly says “arks” instead of “ask”. Drives me nuts!

There is nothing wrong in using arks it’s what call linguistics call metathesis
There are many articles on line explaining the use of this word.
I was educated in the use of it many years ago by black friends.

I hear "could of" on a good day and "could of went" on a bad one.

butterandjam

"Queue" or "que" more illiteracy. Their off of the scale these days. I'm sat here literally fuming.

their off of the scale
You couldn’t make it up especially on Pendants corner.

‘Use to’ is becoming common when written - ‘ I use to meet my friend on Fridays’ .

petra

butterandjam

"Queue" or "que" more illiteracy. Their off of the scale these days. I'm sat here literally fuming.

their off of the scale
You couldn’t make it up especially on Pendants corner.

"Pendants Corner"???
And what about the use of 'draws' instead of 'drawers'?

petra

butterandjam

"Queue" or "que" more illiteracy. Their off of the scale these days. I'm sat here literally fuming.

their off of the scale
You couldn’t make it up especially on Pendants corner.

To be honest, that doesn't phase me at all.

Well I’m literally laughing myself to death reading all this 😂☠️

butterandjam

"Queue" or "que" more illiteracy. Their off of the scale these days. I'm sat here literally fuming.

Well done. Don’t think you could have got that any better. 😄

I like people to use proper English so to say.

But I've swopped to my bigger dislike is when they make out/maybe even think they speak good English and they don't.

Cue for a heated discussion with a podiatrist here (in West Wales) where she kept confusing two anaesthetics and was busily rowing with me/planning to make life WAY more awkward for me because she confused LANAcane (an ointment for one purpose - and I am allergic to it) with LIDOcaine (an injectable for a totally different purpose that, as far as I know I'm not allergic to). I've checked since - and there's a totally different list of ingredients for them both and so I very much doubt I'd have found I was allergic to a 2nd thing in my life at my 70's (ie I'm obviously basically someone who doesnt have allergies). Boy did she ever have a heated row with me whilst doing what should have been a perfectly standard health questionnaire before minor foot operation!!!! She even called me "mad" !!! Cue for - not surprisingly - I'm now with a podiatrist quite some distance away from my little Welsh town and that "first language Welsh" podiatrist and he's English (so I know for a fact he's "first language English" and won't make those stupid mistakes and then yell at me for his mistakes). It's such a basic basic word podiatrists need to know - as they use LIDOcaine so often.

Wasn't too funny either the other day going into a local chemist and I couldnt see the sticking plaster and asked the young girl (in that job) behind the counter for it and she handed me something different. I said "No - sticking plaster" and she handed me something different again. Out came older woman and handed me the correct thing. I realised the young girl can't have known all the basic language to do her job at that point. We all need sticking plaster at intervals and we should all keep some in just in case.

So if someone's "first language" isn't English then = okay it isn't. But - do please know all the language connected to the job you do - especially if it's a medical type job and the word/phrase concerned is a very common one in your type of job.

Starting every sentence with the word 'So ............'

So annoying, that. 😂 Seriously, I agree with you.

"My bad" always leaves me waiting for more. My bad leg, my bad tooth, my bad grammar.

'Should of' and 'would of' and 'could of', instead of 'should have' 'would have' 'could have'

Nooooooooooo........

Quite a few people cannot pronounce create correctly and say crate. (Hard stare at you Kirsty Allsop)!

Haitch!!!! So many radio and TV presenters say this instead of aitch.
Basically at the start of every sentence.
Bored of. Should be bored with.
Fur baby! Hate it!

Plus all those already mentioned. I’m so intolerant.

I dislike tongue when it’s pronounced to rhyme with tong.

In my last appraisal with my manager before I left the job I made a mental list of the corporate BS he came out with-

I hear what your saying
We're singing from the same hym sheet
Lets circle back
We've got to look at the wider picture
I think youve lost your mojo
It is what it is
Changes in the nature of the profession
Youve got to go with the flow

Alternate and alternative

I've just heard an expert on the Antiques Roadshow pronounce jewellery as "joolery".
Not just once either.
😲

friendlygingercat

Its Newspeak 😁

It's!! 😁

The month of February is generally quite miserable enough without having to listen to people pronouncing (and sometimes spelling) it as 'Febuary'.

Ladyleftfieldlover

‘We’re excited to see you at 10 am on Thursday.’

A text from Specsavers about my appointment. Not sure ‘excited’ is the right word!

I have just had a message to tell me that the company that I ordered dish washer sheets from are "Just as excited as you are, to know that your order has been dispatched." Whoop-ti-do!