Words most people use incorrectly
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Cosens said last week "I'm going to a MASSIVE club". Totally threw me, I thought he was going to QPR.0
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Cosens1
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Whose vs. Who's0
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Prescribe (recommend/authorise) and proscribe (forbid/limit).0
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Whatever floats your boat Mick ;0)Baldybonce said:
Don't talk to me about Prostate glands.ShootersHillGuru said:Prostrate gland
I think half of the QEH have had their finger up my bum in the last. Year.
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And that's only the window cleaners and tradesmen.Baldybonce said:
Don't talk to me about Prostate glands.ShootersHillGuru said:Prostrate gland
I think half of the QEH have had their finger up my bum in the last. Year.
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When people use 'me mates' instead of 'my mates'. Excuse me while I find a revolver.
Any time someone uses hyperbolic and extensive words when a simple one would suffice. (<- A good example of hypocrisy, NOT, as some believe, irony.)
I also find grating people that refer to a helicopter's 'propeller' instead of its rotor blades. Come on, people, they're clearly different.
People that pronounce it pro-NOUN-ciation: please stop using the English language at once.
Finally, any American-ism. That includes incorrectly spelling coloUr, valoUr, jewelLery, honoUr and tYre.0 -
"Uninterested" and "disinterested".
For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".1 -
Who cares ?EdgeleyAddick said:"Uninterested" and "disinterested".
For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".6 -
Anyone who is interested!letthegoodtimesroll said:
Who cares ?EdgeleyAddick said:"Uninterested" and "disinterested".
For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".0 - Sponsored links:
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and not anyone who's uninterestedEdgeleyAddick said:
Anyone who is interested!letthegoodtimesroll said:
Who cares ?EdgeleyAddick said:"Uninterested" and "disinterested".
For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".0 -
Aint done nothing.0
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Nor disinterestedi_b_b_o_r_g said:
and not anyone who's uninterestedEdgeleyAddick said:
Anyone who is interested!letthegoodtimesroll said:
Who cares ?EdgeleyAddick said:"Uninterested" and "disinterested".
For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".0 -
Said this before but when people say 'I don't think' at the end of a negative sentence. Such as 'this isn't going well I don't think'.1
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The taffs very annoyingly put "is it" at the end, on a lot of what they say.Talal said:Said this before but when people say 'I don't think' at the end of a negative sentence. Such as 'this isn't going well I don't think'.
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For free0
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Massive
Disaster
Fatal
Crucial
You get the point, exaggerations.0 -
many of these will feature above, for sure.
Get real.
OMG.
Nuff said.
To be fair
To be honest
You have got to be kidding me
U make me so horny Hun xxx
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I notice a lot of people using generally in place of genuinely.
"I generally think that's the case" my Mrs does all the time, but she genuinely ain't gotta clue when it comes to grammar.0 -
Ironic.
It was even used incorrectly in an advert, Citroen I think, about dancing robots, the man in the Citroen factory said "and with delicious irony, this ones doing the robot"
A robot dancing the robot is not ironic.
That bint who's name I can't spell wrote a whole song about irony in the 90's and most of what she calls ironic in the lyrics aren't ironic at all. I suppose that's ironic in itself.0 - Sponsored links:
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Are you sure she doesn't mean generally? As in most of the time I think that's the case but sometimes I think otherwise?0
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Agreed EA. Disinterested is impartial, whereas the consequence of uninterested is something being boring, uneventful etc. The nuance of the English language is important and worth preserving where possible.EdgeleyAddick said:"Uninterested" and "disinterested".
For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".2 -
Other examples?
Disassociated v unassociated
Disappoint v unappoint
distend v untend
I've run out, the two prefixes are intended for different things.
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That's the one that makes you lie flat on your stomach, yes?ShootersHillGuru said:Prostrate gland
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"its" when "it's" is meant, and vice versa.golfaddick said:brought instead of bought.
cant believe the amount of people who say it............its a different word & has a different meaning entirely1 -
"Like" as in, for example, "He was, like, hungry". So he wasn't hungry, rather he was in a state similar to being hungry but not actually hungry?harveys gardener said:"Like" when used because a person can't string two sentences together.
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As a youngster living in a good working class area, we had three meals a day, breakfast, dinner and tea. It was only when I was elevated above the status of my birth by going to a grammar school that I learnt about lunch.letthegoodtimesroll said:'Dinner' when referring to lunch. Where were these people dragged up ?
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JiMMy 85 said:
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!
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Indeed, and what if just one datum was collected?cafcfan said:
Maybe, but it still grates. You'd never say "similar from" would you?daveydanger said:
'Different to' is absolutely fine. Unless the Oxford Dictionary and Jane Austen are 'morons'.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?"
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...0 -
"Disassociated".Alwaysneil said:Other examples?
Disassociated v unassociated
Disappoint v unappoint
distend v untend
I've run out, the two prefixes are intended for different things.
It's not a word. It's dissociated.0
