Things that people get wrong

[Ang1e]

its things like boc boc instead of bottle ! why teach a kid that then teach him again the right language to use as he gets older..
see its really is my bug bear!!!

I agree with this one. If you're happy doing it then fine but I just thought 'what's the point?' I wanted my children to be understood by other people when I left them at playschool. People find it hard enough to understand toddlers without us teaching them a completely different set of words.

My MIL used a 'baby' word for 'walk', as in 'shall we go for a walk?' DD was 18 months old at the time and didn't understand her. So I pipe up with the fact that she doesn't understand but if you say the word 'walk' she will because we weren't using baby words. Well you'd have thought I'd told her she couldn't speak to her grand-daughter EVER - she completely ignored DD and me the following day!

But anyway!

One of my friends uses the words 'pacific' and 'pacifically' instead of 'specific' and 'specifically'......I never correct her but I do giggle in my head...it's just her and I love her to bits

'Hospikal' instead of 'hospital' - this from a friend who, unfortunately, works in a hospital so has to use the word a lot It's a proper Leicester way of speaking. I used to say 'bokkle' for 'bottle' and 'yourn' for 'yours' when I was about 14 and going through a stage of wanting to be different because none of my friends spoke like that.

But hey......it's all these quirky ikkle things that make us special

 

[madmumof2]

It's a proper Leicester way of speaking. I used to say 'bokkle' for 'bottle' and 'yourn' for 'yours' when I was about 14 and going through a stage of wanting to be different because none of my friends spoke like that.

But hey......it's all these quirky ikkle things that make us special

Another Leicester way of speaking is to miss out T's! lol Boh-ull for bottle etc lol. And 'innit', 'ain't'.

 

[Snowy-girls]

Sometimes it's easier for them to say a baby word for something than the 'proper' word .I tried many times to get my dd to say the correct word-i wish she would have.That's why i retorted to them dodgy baby words-she found it much easier.She's 3 now-so no baby words for a long time-thank goodness .x.

People who say 'fink' instead of 'think'. 'fick' instead of 'thick'.

 

[carolfoy]

my number one annoyance? 'pacific' instead of 'specific', bothers me no end!

 

[Danauk]

There's an ad on our local radio at the moment for a coach company doing trips to Walt Disney World Paris, it annoys me no end!!

 

[orlandothebeagle]

Probably not the right dis board to bring this up but, this has bugged me for years!!!!!!!

2 planes nearly collide,they say "it was a near miss"


NO NO NO NO NO

It was a near hit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[darthtatty]

oh i can think of hundreds....

its the as/was that baffles me, how do people get it wrong?
ive even seen people doing as/has recently........

 

[PoppyAnna]

oh i can think of hundreds....

its the as/was that baffles me, how do people get it wrong?
ive even seen people doing as/has recently........

Oh yeah and bring/take....
Forgot about that one!

 

[Ang1e]

Oh and what about 'can I lend xxxxxx off you' nooooooo it's 'BORROW' aaarghhhh lol

 

[Danauk]

I've thought of another one when people write to instead of too. Also a lot of the kids at the school where I teach say "Can I go for a toilet?" Are they asking to go to the DIY store?

 

[natalielongstaff]

Another Leicester way of speaking is to miss out T's! lol Boh-ull for bottle etc lol. And 'innit', 'ain't'.

And if you live in Hinckley then its pronounced Inckley

 

[madmumof2]

I've thought of another one when people write to instead of too. Also a lot of the kids at the school where I teach say "Can I go for a toilet?" Are they asking to go to the DIY store?

Aagggrhh! I thought that was just my son! It drives me potty! If I ask him what he's doing, he'll say 'I'm having a toilet'. No you're not!!!!! The amount of times I've told him, I've just started to ignore him now lol

 

[Tron[ADS]]

One that mildly irritates me is when someone migrates their internet connection to another company, they always ask for their "mac code", which is of course saying "code code".

However, the one that really winds me up, just because of the sheer numbers of people that say it, is people saying "wing mirrors", when they really mean "door mirrors"!!!!! The car mirrors are of course now attached to the car doors, and not to the front wings like they used to be back in the days of mk1 Capri's etc. There are very rare exceptions...I think there is a 4x4 out that has a single wing mirror, along with the normal 2 DOOR mirrors.

What I find odd is people who werent even born when cars had wing mirrors still refer to door mirrors as such. I can't explain that.

 

[Netty]

now i'm guilty of this one..
i've pulled the chain
instead of saying flushed the toilet...

 

[natalielongstaff]

One that mildly irritates me is when someone migrates their internet connection to another company, they always ask for their "mac code", which is of course saying "code code".

joh was saying the same thing last night about PIN numbers!

 

[wilma-bride]

joh was saying the same thing last night about PIN numbers!

I was just about to post that Nat

 

[Tron[ADS]]

Just been on the Honda Web site (I'm looking to get a new Honda Jazz when they come out in October), and on the specification page, they state the car width "excluding WING mirrors".......ARGH !!!!!

I'm as guilty as the next man for saying "Pin Number" unfortunately....."Pi Number" just doesnt sound right

 

[mushumadness]

my surname its Towills (as in bath) but so far this week I have been

Mrs two hills ,trowills, towliss

My maiden name was crawshaw, had loads of variations, cranshaw, carshow kershaw th list goes on

 

[emily500]

I constantly hear 'Can you borrow me xxxx?'
No I can't BORROW you something but I can lend it to you.

it used to be that a friend of mine would come home from school and say to her parents, 'Guess what my teacher LEARNED me in school today?'

*sighs

 

[Claire L]

Pet hate #1 - 'We are going to Disneyland in Florida'

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Claire