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Words most people use incorrectly

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  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    edited July 2016
    Fewer vs less.

    BBC journos saying "the data is...." It's a plural word you fuckwits.

    The same journos saying "different to" rather than "different from". I'd like to smash them over the head with a rubber mallet while shouting "similar to, different from, get it now moron?"
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    The word 'fair', when it is meant as 'not getting what I want'.
  • Peter_G
    Peter_G Posts: 839
    cafcfan said:

    Fewer vs less.

  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    cafcfan said:

    Fewer vs less.

    BBC journos saying "the data is...." It's a plural word you fuckwits.

    The same journos saying "different to" rather than "different from". I'd like to smash them over the head with a rubber mallet while shouting "similar to, different from, get it now moron?"

    http://youtu.be/u0wj38qTtFU
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    the team were .. not the team is .. team is singular .. and this happens with so many singular words, another example .. the herd were .... NO .. the herd is .. this misuse is SOOO common nowadays. especially on the BBC, I wonder if were instead of 'is' is now the accepted form
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,735
    Amount v Number.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    the department were ... NO .. the department IS .. ((:>)
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,105
    Defenently / Definitely
  • Red_in_SE8
    Red_in_SE8 Posts: 5,961
    Existential/Existialism
    Hopefully
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  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,679
    Minster and Minister
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Nonce
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,619
    Striker, defender
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    Nonce

    Those children know exactly what you are!
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,619
    Stand...if it's got seats in it why is it called a stand ?
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    edited July 2016
    cafc-west said:

    his. I've noticed quite a few people write "his gone down the pub (or wherever)" when what they mean is he's gone down the pub (or wherever)"... annoys me anyway!

    The flip of this really annoys me.

    He's boots were colourful, He's name, He's face... etc...

    It winds me up. His is not he's and he's is not his... please stop blending them. They mean the opposites of what you're using them both for.

  • daveydanger
    daveydanger Posts: 1,338
    edited July 2016
    cafcfan said:

    Fewer vs less.

    BBC journos saying "the data is...." It's a plural word you fuckwits.

    The same journos saying "different to" rather than "different from". I'd like to smash them over the head with a rubber mallet while shouting "similar to, different from, get it now moron?"

    'Different to' is absolutely fine. Unless the Oxford Dictionary and Jane Austen are 'morons'.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    May I go to the toilet vs can I go to the toilet

    It's may I. Can implies your ability to go to the toilet.

    The word awesome as in some form of description for a film. That film was awesome. No it wasn't, awesome in the true sense of the word can be applied to a hurricane for example, not a film

  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    His when they mean he is. When they should say he's.
  • BR3red
    BR3red Posts: 1,715
    Addickted2TheReds said:

    Belgiums

    Racist (sorry @Lincsaddick )!
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  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,966
    Hopefully.

    "Hopefully they will come."

    NO!

    I hope they will come.

    They may well not come hopefully.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    "That's interesting" when it should be "Get a life you fucking pedants, language evolves and changes and so what if people get it wrong, you can still understand them"

    ; - )
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,619
    Two

    As in two per cent
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    Should of
    Would of
    Could of
  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    Effect an affect - I still ain't got a bloody clue.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,485
    Irregardless
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    edited July 2016
    "Like" when used because a person can't string two sentences together.
  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,856
    strong: a person can't "strong" two sentences together.
  • Peter_G
    Peter_G Posts: 839
    edited July 2016
    The Organiser said:

    Effect an affect - I still ain't got a bloody clue.

    Maybe the easy way to remember: effect is a noun; affect is a verb.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    Sick, as in 'those drugs you sold me last week were sick bruv'.

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