glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Another pal says warrantree for warranty. He even writes it that way!
Words wot you say wrong...
- Thread starter yello
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I reckon you've got a good ear, and are a good listener.
People make mistakes all the time, it's just that we kinda auto-correct and, as a rule, don't hear what's actually been said.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Actually I'm just a feckin' pedant and these this drive me nuts half the time.
Edit: Look at that ^^^, a pedant who can't even check his own sentence!
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roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
'Half cut'.I wouldn't have thought the word half was in your vocabulary
Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
One that drives me up the wall is when people say "Akse" instead of Ask. It seems to be quite a common failing.
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
it drives me mental when people say fing and baff instead of thing and bath etc
U
User169
Guest
You need to be careful with that one. It has a long history in English - you can find it in Chaucer.
Oldbloke
Guru
- Location
- Mayenne, France
I knew a woman who told me her elderly father had become incontinental.
Red17
Guru
- Location
- South London
My wife always refers to a skeleton as a skellington which I think she got from her mother who also used to say it
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
"Boris" always gets pronounced "Tw@t" in our house.
