Words most people use incorrectly

Cosens said last week "I'm going to a MASSIVE club". Totally threw me, I thought he was going to QPR.

Whose vs. Who's

Baldybonce said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

Prostrate gland

Don't talk to me about Prostate glands.
I think half of the QEH have had their finger up my bum in the last. Year.

Whatever floats your boat Mick ;0)

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.

EdgeleyAddick said:

"Uninterested" and "disinterested".

For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".

Who cares ?

EdgeleyAddick said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

EdgeleyAddick said:

"Uninterested" and "disinterested".

For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".

Who cares ?

Anyone who is interested!

and not anyone who's uninterested

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

EdgeleyAddick said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

EdgeleyAddick said:

"Uninterested" and "disinterested".

For me they are not the same thing, but many use "disinterested" when they mean "uninterested".

Who cares ?

Anyone who is interested!

and not anyone who's uninterested

Nor disinterested

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'.

The taffs very annoyingly put "is it" at the end, on a lot of what they say.

Massive
Disaster
Fatal
Crucial

You get the point, exaggerations.

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.

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?

Other examples?

Disassociated v unassociated
Disappoint v unappoint
distend v untend

I've run out, the two prefixes are intended for different things.

golfaddick said:

brought instead of bought.

cant believe the amount of people who say it............its a different word & has a different meaning entirely

"its" when "it's" is meant, and vice versa.

letthegoodtimesroll said:

'Dinner' when referring to lunch. Where were these people dragged up ?

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.

cafcfan said:

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...

Indeed, and what if just one datum was collected?