| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms 12:14 - Jul 19 with 2284 views | Hugoagogo_Reborn |
Grammar:
'could/should/would of' instead of 'could/should/would have'
'His' instead of 'he is' or 'he's'
Eggcorns/malapropisms:
'Pacific' instead of 'specific'
'Heart rendering' instead of 'heart rending'
Your turn. 😊 [Post edited 19 Jul 12:18]
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| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 21:42 - Jul 19 with 215 views | suffolkpoker |
My grammer is so poor I don’t even have one |  |
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| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 21:47 - Jul 19 with 200 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 15:25 - Jul 19 by urbanpenguin |
It's old English, and simply has re-entered the language. through different dialects and English returning from the various places we took it around the world through colonisation. |
Nonsense. The current use of that has nothing to do with "old english" |  | | |
| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 22:28 - Jul 19 with 166 views | Plums |
'Affect' instead of 'effect' and vice versa.
It's an irritant I've inherited from my university head of third year and she wasn't wrong. |  |
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| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 22:35 - Jul 19 with 150 views | saxon |
Literally, when used in a context when it's anything but e.g. "I literally died laughing". | | | |
| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 23:25 - Jul 19 with 118 views | TheMoralMajority |
| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 14:19 - Jul 19 by jontysnut |
At risk of sounding like William Rees-Mogg I deplore the modern usage of ' beg the question '. |
Agree with this. Sadly I think that ship has long sailed, as I struggle to recollect when I last heard/read it used in the traditional context.
"Chomping at the bit" annoys me far more than it has any right to. It's just plain wrong. Horses champ at the bit. They don't chomp at it.
In fact, I'm not entirely convinced you can chomp at anything much. You could certainly chomp on something... like a Mars bar for instance, but even then horses don't chomp on the bit. They may chomp down on some hay, but then, that's not the phrase.
Like I say. Annoys me far more than it has any right to. |  |
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| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 23:57 - Jul 19 with 100 views | Hugoagogo_Reborn |
| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 22:28 - Jul 19 by Plums |
'Affect' instead of 'effect' and vice versa.
It's an irritant I've inherited from my university head of third year and she wasn't wrong. |
I was told to remember the meaning by the first letter of each word: the affect is the action, the effect is the evidence.
"The houses were profoundly affected by the earthquake."
"The earthquake had a profound effect on the houses" [Post edited 20 Jul 0:11]
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| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 00:56 - Jul 20 with 65 views | Ryorry |
“Amount of” instead of number of when referring to people.
“The amount of people going through the gates …”
Err, they’re not quantities of sugar, they’re individual humans. |  |
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| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 01:58 - Jul 20 with 33 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 12:34 - Jul 19 by _clive_baker_ |
Winds me up how young people seem to omit the word ‘to’ quite regularly.
I’m going Starbucks. No you’re not, dickhead. You’re going to Starbucks. |
That's absolutely normal form in the Northamptonshire (and maybe wider East Midlands) vernacular, across generations.
Personally I love a bit of vernacular dialect. Adds a bit of local flavour. Quite different to Pacific/specific etc. [Post edited 20 Jul 2:13]
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| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 02:00 - Jul 20 with 28 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 14:12 - Jul 19 by PhilTWTD |
'Over' rather than 'more than' when talking about a figure. |
I can see the headlines now:
"Phil Ham unhappy with reports that TWTD has over a million members." | | | |
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