Andyp wrote:“Gifted” is one that get me.
Probably not wrong but it just grates.
You forgot 'crafted' Andy and 'crafted' is just plain wrong - Rob
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Andyp wrote:“Gifted” is one that get me.
Probably not wrong but it just grates.
AJB Temple wrote:My pet hate with chefs and TV cooks ( am addicted to TV cookery and also to cook books) is the creeping wide use of "off". So they will sauté off some onions, fry off some meat to colour it, dry fry off some spices to toast them. Off is always superfluous in this context. They also now put dishes "through" the oven, as if there is a door on both sides.
The widespread inability to differentiate correct use of I and me bugs me.
Ignorant and incorrect use of decimate and disinterested does too.
I can't even claim I got out of bed on the wrong side today, as I am still in it. Frosty outside you see and the indoor job is tiling
TrimTheKing wrote:
There are so many of these I would go mad trying to list them all.
A couple of the high fliers are, in a meeting and someone asks to “Talk around that for a minute…”. Talk ‘around’ it? So you don’t want to discuss it or talk ‘about’ it, you want to ‘talk AROUND’ it? Grrrrrr.
Pretentious gobsh!tery!
novocaine wrote:You are all pendents. ......
Mike G wrote:novocaine wrote:You are all pendents. ......
Pedants.
Gill wrote:Wind me up by describing something as 'almost unique'. A thing is either unique or it isn’t! 'Almost unique' is like being a little bit pregnant.
Mike G wrote::lol: Ooooh, this is fun....
utilise
Mike G wrote::lol: Ooooh, this is fun....
utilise
John Brown wrote:Mike G wrote::lol: Ooooh, this is fun....
utilise
No. The z was the preferred spelling in British English up to a few decades ago.
Mike G wrote:John Brown wrote:Mike G wrote::lol: Ooooh, this is fun....
utilise
No. The z was the preferred spelling in British English up to a few decades ago.
Well, that all depended on whether you went to Oxford or Cambridge.
The preferred UK spelling now is -ise.
Andyp wrote:We are just discussing the written words here.
How about broadening it to mispronounciations?
Uz instead of us for example.
And a few that get my missus in a pickle.*
Alone, a loan and a lawn.
As a foreigner I do make allowances, sometimes.
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RogerS wrote:I just love the way this thread is panning out
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