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Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.
Example:
In America, recently came across "back-petal", instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".
Americans saying "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less".
I agree that this is very vaguely irritating, but for me it only differs by one sound and a vowel quality
"I couldn't care less" [aɪ̯.kɘ̃ʔ.kɛɹ.lɛs] vs "I could care less" [aɪ̯.kɘ.kɛɹ.lɛs]
Idiots misspelling lose as loose drives me up the wall. Even had someone defend themselves claiming it's just the common spelling now and to accept it. There, their, and they're get honorable mention. Nip it in the butt as opposed to correctly nipping it in the bud.
"Could of..."
It's "could have"!
Edit: I'm referring to text based things, like text and email. I can pretty much ignore the mispronouncing.
Also, the vanishing use of countable quantities: they are all amounts nowadays.
I know someone that says 'Pacific' instead of 'specific'. The man has his talents & his place in the world, food man, but yes that is infuriating.
I know someone who calls it the “Specific Ocean”
There is no fucking s at the end of "anyway"
I thought that was the case with "toward", but apparently "towards" is fine too. Depends on where you are which is more common.
People saying "exscape", "expresso", "pasghetti"
Exspecially!
"Give me a ghetto, you stupid French landlord!"
"Je n'ai pasghetti!"
(Pardon my French)
Please state what country your phrase tends to be used
Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used...
Discreet vs Discrete used to crack me up on dating sites. All those guys looking for discrete hookups - which kind of makes sense but I am sure is not what they meant.
I literally ground my teeth today because I got an email from a customer service person saying "You're package was returned to us". Not a phishing email with an intentional misspelling, a legitimate email for a real order I made. If it is your JOB to send messages like this they ought not have misspellings.
So the context matters to me. I am more tolerant of spelling errors and mis-phrasing in everyday life than in a professional communication.
"that begs the question". I wish people would just use the more correct "raises the question", especially people doing educational/academic content. I hear it across the English-speaking internet
People using 'yourself' and 'myself' instead of 'you' and 'me' when trying to sound formal or posh. You don't sound formal or posh, you sound ill-educated.
Forsooth, methinks you are aright.
Have you a merry little Christmas, commoner.
I remember once being on a call with some customer support guy who didn't seem to even be aware that words "you" and "me" exist. My favourite part of the conversation was when he said "let myself put yourself on hold while I ask a senior colleague to clarify this for myself".