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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms 12:14 - Jul 19 with 3277 viewsHugoagogo_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. 😊
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 21:42 - Jul 19 with 622 viewssuffolkpoker

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 606 viewsredrickstuhaart

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"
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 22:28 - Jul 19 with 573 viewsPlums

'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.

It's 106 miles to Portman Road, we've got a full tank of gas, half a round of Port Salut, it's dark... and we're wearing blue tinted sunglasses.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 22:35 - Jul 19 with 557 viewssaxon

Literally, when used in a context when it's anything but e.g. "I literally died laughing".
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 23:25 - Jul 19 with 524 viewsTheMoralMajority

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 507 viewsHugoagogo_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"
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 00:56 - Jul 20 with 475 viewsRyorry

“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 439 viewsArnoldMoorhen

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.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 02:00 - Jul 20 with 436 viewsArnoldMoorhen

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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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:12 - Jul 20 with 345 viewsazuremerlangus

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 22:35 - Jul 19 by saxon

Literally, when used in a context when it's anything but e.g. "I literally died laughing".


Add these to the list:

Genuinely
Random

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:14 - Jul 20 with 344 viewsPhilTWTD

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 00:56 - Jul 20 by 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.


Indeed, I was going to mention that as well!
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:17 - Jul 20 with 341 viewsCheshire_Tractor

'At the end of the day...'

At the end of the day I want to watch the sunrise.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:34 - Jul 20 with 317 viewsPlums

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:14 - Jul 20 by PhilTWTD

Indeed, I was going to mention that as well!


Less than and fewer as well!

It's 106 miles to Portman Road, we've got a full tank of gas, half a round of Port Salut, it's dark... and we're wearing blue tinted sunglasses.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:36 - Jul 20 with 315 viewsPhilTWTD

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:34 - Jul 20 by Plums

Less than and fewer as well!


Very much so!
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:37 - Jul 20 with 312 viewsPhilTWTD

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 02:00 - Jul 20 by ArnoldMoorhen

I can see the headlines now:

"Phil Ham unhappy with reports that TWTD has over a million members."


I might let that slide!
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:42 - Jul 20 with 292 viewsRyorry

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:12 - Jul 20 by azuremerlangus

Add these to the list:

Genuinely
Random


Slight digression - anyone else never trust anyone who says “trust me …”. ?

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 11:43 - Jul 20 with 255 viewsTangledupin_Blue

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 10:42 - Jul 20 by Ryorry

Slight digression - anyone else never trust anyone who says “trust me …”. ?


Similarly... "To be honest with you..."

Does that mean that they're not being honest the rest of the time?

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 17:10 - Jul 20 with 164 viewsDJR

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 11:43 - Jul 20 by Tangledupin_Blue

Similarly... "To be honest with you..."

Does that mean that they're not being honest the rest of the time?


"To be fair" and "To be honest" mean different things, and are often used incorrectly by football pundits.
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 17:35 - Jul 20 with 144 viewsDJR

"try and" rather than "try to".
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 17:56 - Jul 20 with 124 viewsClapham_Junction

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 21:47 - Jul 19 by redrickstuhaart

Nonsense. The current use of that has nothing to do with "old english"


I think it does. It seems to have re-entered use in the UK through immigration from the Caribbean, where it never stopped being used.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/03/248515217/why-chaucer-said-ax

https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2022/03/11/how-linguistic-prejudice-perpetuat
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 19:21 - Jul 20 with 83 viewsStevoski

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 11:43 - Jul 20 by Tangledupin_Blue

Similarly... "To be honest with you..."

Does that mean that they're not being honest the rest of the time?


Along with... "I ain't gonna lie..."

What also irks me is people using the word brought when they mean bought.

Oh, and saying "It's jokes" or "that's jokes" when they mean "It was a joke".
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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 21:00 - Jul 20 with 29 viewsWeWereZombies

Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 13:44 - Jul 19 by DJR

I remember about 35 years ago (probably during World Cup 1990) seeing a letter to a newspaper in which someone had written something along following lines.

"To conjugate "done good"

I done good.
You done good.
He done good.
She done good.
The boy Lineker done good."
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Posters who do not use 'the' when they post '...written something along the following lines.'

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Pet hates with grammar and 'eggcorns'/malapropisms on 21:02 - Jul 20 with 28 viewsBluesky

Obviously.
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