I hate it when nervous people say they are on tender hooks when they mean tenter hooks.
Or when people think they are having some rest bite rather than respite.
Or when people pronounce the letter H as Haitch rather than Aitch.
What common mistakes really get your goat?
2006-09-17 06:58:04 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Fat blokes with camp moustaches also annoy me.
2006-09-17 07:04:54 · update #1
But you did notice it!
2006-09-17 07:16:03 · update #2
And the word is behaviour!!
2006-09-17 07:16:58 · update #3
Absolutely HATE the Haitch thing!! I tend to point it out at every given opportunity, but usually the person who has said it, doesn't even know of their ignorant mistake!!!
people that say 'give it me' or any kind of gangster talk like 'baby mother' makes me laugh in their face.
Jonathan Ross pointed out the Supernanny says Wiff instead of with. Since he pointed it out I've noticed loads of people do it. Any replacing of th's with f's drives me mad!!
2006-09-17 07:33:57 · answer #1 · answered by As You Like It 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hey, nobody's perfect.i'm sure that you have some stuff that get on other people's nerves.when you're nervous you tend to be a little distracted, while for others it may be a product of their culture or something that they may have heard wrongly.
anyway what gets my goat is the use of double negatives like iregardless of..... or there ain't no nothing wrong with this sentence.
2006-09-17 07:13:04 · answer #2 · answered by gabegm1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When people drop the "T" in the middle of words like water. Also when somebody says something is "quite unique." Ridiculous something is either unique or it's not it can't be quite unique. All those things you mentioned irritate me too.
2006-09-17 08:43:26 · answer #3 · answered by Sam B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate when people say:
"For all intensive purposes" instead of "For all intents and purposes". The first one doesn't even make any sense.
Misplaced apostrophes.
Text speak.
Words spelled wrong.
Typing accents like 'nuffing' or 'fink'.
But what really gets me is when English people come on here to Irish questions and take the p**s about alcohol, leprechauns and 'oh begorra'. Haven't you people ever heard of stereotypes? We're not actually like that... duh!!!
2006-09-17 07:39:04 · answer #4 · answered by Tamarinda Alexia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If thats what you're really worried about you really need to get out more - though idiots who say 'Haitch' are annoying - your rite -hmm maybe I should get out more too .....
2006-09-17 07:08:06 · answer #5 · answered by Sir Nickle Barsteward 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
General bad grammer
2006-09-17 07:11:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
None of those.
Mostly, it's folks who are fanatical about their particular dialect, and don't leave any room for the possibility that others' speech patterns are perfectly acceptable in their culture.
2006-09-17 07:00:25 · answer #7 · answered by Stuart 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My mother says "neckel" instead of "nickel". "Warsh" instead of "wash". "Pellow" for "pillow". All the days end in a dee, such as Monday would be "Mondee".
Also, sophmore is pronounced as "southmore" to her!!!
2006-09-17 07:08:00 · answer #8 · answered by Rachael 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do they still teach nominative, comparative and superlative in schools, these days?
How many times do you hear people saying "more faster", or similar?
2006-09-17 07:09:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
people over here say things like "i won you" when they mean "i beat you"
or "i lent it" when they mean "i borrowed it" or something and they also have to put "so i did" at the ends of sentences for no reason. eg: "i went to the park so i did." i live in ulster it's lots of fun!
2006-09-17 07:02:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋