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Words most people use incorrectly

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  • Dansk_Red
    Dansk_Red Posts: 5,727
    Colin's favourite there when he means their.
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    I've noticed that "I mean" has become this generations "you know"
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    "In many ways" - usually the person saying this can't name more than two.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    When my Mrs tells me to do summin and I say No, that appears to be incorrect
  • Atletico Addick
    Atletico Addick Posts: 5,843
    Defiantly... more so for people that can't spell definitely though. Quite a different word.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    I think people are getting confused with the difference between "incorrect usage" and "second definition/colloquialism". Half these posts just demonstrate a generation gap as opposed to incorrect usage.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    Indescribable
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Anybody who can't say:

    'The wicked cricket critic's gig-whip snapped'

    Faultlessly, three times in a row at pace, irritates me.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    seth plum said:

    Anybody who can't say:

    'The wicked cricket critic's gig-whip snapped'

    Faultlessly, three times in a row at pace, irritates me.

    I can't even get passed 'the wicked' bit the first time. Hope that don't ruin what we got Setho
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824
    Know and now for me
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  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824
    I now you
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    The Organiser said:

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

    and

    :smile:
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    'Shh, be quite, I'm listening to Katrien who's quiet a good CEO'.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,485
    https://youtu.be/StJ-OK4jiSY
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,619
    'Dinner' when referring to lunch. Where were these people dragged up ?
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    Hopefully

    Incorrect use: Hopefully, it won't rain tomorrow.

    Correct use: The crowd waited hopefully for the winner to be announced.
    or "Do you have a cigarette?" he asked hopefully.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    daveydanger said:

    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'.
    Maybe, but it still grates. You'd never say "similar from" would you?

    Anyway this is what the BBC style guide has to say on the matter:

    Different

    Say different from (rather than ‘different to’ or ‘different than’).


    But then it says this about data:

    Data

    Strictly a plural - but follow common usage and treat it as a singular, taking a singular verb (eg: Data was collected across the country).


    Which I just don't get. You'd never say Charlton play at a stadia so...
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    The trouble is, people do not know how to talk proper like what I does
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,619
    Park as in selhurst, Upton, st James etc - they look nothing like a park
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,679
    The Organiser said:

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

    Effect means outcome, consequence or appearance. To affect means to transform or to change.
    (I've just lifted this from Grammar rules by Craig Shrives)
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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,333
    "Less" used instead of "fewer", as already stated.

    "1 in 10 people are left-handed". No! One person in ten *is* left-handed.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,434
    Are instead of our
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    As stupid and irritating as some of these mistakes (loose/lose, brought/bought etc.) are, I think the OP was referring to getting definitions wrong, as opposed to spelling/grammar mistakes.

    Crass - people on this forum love this word but it's rarely used in the correct context.

    Shocking - someone recently said on here 'It was shocking, but not surprising'. Sorry, what?
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited July 2016
    Any word used with the intention of obscuring communication rather than facilitating it. Otherwise it's all good.

    On the other hand: "No way! Shut up!" It's always fun to just clamp your mouth shut and refuse to speak again.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,966
    Please assist, which is correct?

    'I left twenty bricks in my front garden overnight but none were/was stolen'

  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    I'm half guessing here but the 'none' refers to a collection, so it's 'were'.

    If you said 'not a single one was stolen' then it would be 'was'. But I'm happy to be corrected!



  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    I keeping using the word incompetent wrongly with regards to our CEO and Owner-?i thought it meant F---wits who are screwing our club over
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    Fuckwit.

    Implies someone who is attempting wit but fucks it up rather than someone with no wit whatsoever to start with.

  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    se9addick said:

    Getting "bought" and "brought" mixed up. I instantly judge anyone on the wrong side of this.

    A lot depends on how you were bought up.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,333
    edited July 2016
    IdleHans said:

    Please assist, which is correct?

    'I left twenty bricks in my front garden overnight but none were/was stolen'

    Was.

    "None" is a contraction of "not one". So you would be saying "not one was stolen'.

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