Misused phrases

[bfcjg]

Bertie Bee said to Bill Shankly

[Bosscat]

Bertie Bee said to Bill Shankly

In our Lancashire Homes

[Caballo]

On accident.

[JohnMac]

You have been listening to 5Live DriveTime!

Not been in my car for 3 days and don't listen to the Radio

[jos]

She has septic powers. (Hilda Baker)

[NL Claret]

he's like Jekyll from Hyde

Audrey Bradshaw

[boatshed bill]

Can you borrow me some money.

though in a certain circumstance that is ok.

[JohnMac]

That'll learn him

[boatshed bill]

These days almost any sentence with the word "across" in them.

[NL Claret]

In meetings I sometimes have a tally for how many times the word "obviously" is used. Usually double figures, some have said it at least 4 times in the same sentence.

[boatshed bill]

In meetings I sometimes have a tally for how many times the word "obviously" is used. Usually double figures, some have said it at least 4 times in the same sentence.

I'm pretty sure it was made popular by sir David Beckham

[Bosscat]

He's earn't that money ...

No he hasn't "he earned it" ffs

[kaptin1]

“Would of”

[dougcollins]

Escape goat

My favourite.

I always picture a goat with a coil of rope and a knife in its teeth.

[Spindles]

My pet footy peeve is installed instead of instilled when managers are talking about getting a work ethic / system etc embedded into a squad

[Spindles]

Fell swoop (foul)

Originally by Shakespeare, meaning a sudden heinous evil so foul kind of fits the tone

[Jakubs Tash]

There / their / they’re

Plenty of posters on this board misuse these.

‘Would of’ instead of ‘would have’ is infuriating.

Someone else has already mentioned it but people who use the word pacific instead of specific.

[Juan Tanamera]

The late Mrs Juan
"Shall we watch Pesky Blighters" (Peaky Blinders)

[ClaretinJapan]

Loose and lose

A friends Ma was once telling me how their dad's eyes had never been the same since he had anoraks. Difficult to stay composed.

[Dressinggown]

The terms that are regularly misused will eventually become part of modern language despite the fact that the adaptation is nonsensical.

The majority of the English Dictionaries currently view that that the use of the phrase ''aswell' (in referring to 'also' or 'too') isn't part of the language. 'As well' is still the definitive structure as two separate words, however, the singular version also has a different pronunciation.

I'm an old b*stard and types like me tend to live in our own era & we will always have a certain nostalgic reference to 'how it used to be'.

The staggering 'progress' of technology has now landed at our feet and we are expected to accept the invasion of our daily lives by any number of companies or public services.

'Big Brother' ?

Social media has accelerated this uncontrolled storm where getting 'likes' or 'subscriptions' to brain-dead 'Influencers' are a major part of the various sites.

Other, more discreet, but.equally, worrying, elements exist.already.

Artificial Intelligence is already showing it's supposed power but this is just a scratch on the surface of what the future could entail.

You can now apply for a job and you've got experience for the available post. Next, your application is turned down. Why? Your prospective employers have accessed all your Social Media content and if this might trigger some red flags then the AI then provides a recommendation as to your suitability for the position based on pure data.

Apologies, rant over. (for now).

[LeadBelly]

My pet footy peeve is installed instead of instilled when managers are talking about getting a work ethic / system etc embedded into a squad

Similar footy one. " He equipped himself well" instead of "acquitted himself well" (Unless the player has just bought new boots .)

[Grimsdale]

One of my favourites from Porridge:

Godber: You've really got up my goat these past two weeks.
Fletcher: Wrong Godber. I *get* your goat. I don't get up your goat. I get up your nose or on your wick.
Godber: Well just lately you've done all three.

[Quicknick]

The first one for me as a teenager - at this moment in time. As my father said to me: all moments are in time.

[Selby Claret]

"I'm going to give you two choices..."

Usually they're only giving you one choice: A or B

[houseboy]

Pre-Madonna

Does that mean prior to the mid seventies?

[GetIntoEm]

people who "brought it at the shop"

or people who say "we won them" in relation to winning a football match.

thick as pig shite

[Goddy]

Slightly O/T but poor punctuation is my big bugbear. A comma can make such a difference e.g. 'Let's eat grandma' is very different to 'Let's eat, grandma'.

Apols for being soooooo sad (but still checks to make sure grammar etc is OK for fear of being virtually hung, drawn and quartered by those much cleverer than me)

[Rileybobs]

Slightly O/T but poor punctuation is my big bugbear. A comma can make such a difference e.g. 'Let's eat grandma' is very different to 'Let's eat, grandma'.

Apols for being soooooo sad (but still checks to make sure grammar etc is OK for fear of being virtually hung, drawn and quartered by those much cleverer than me)

Are you going to finish your sentence?

[Stalbansclaret]

In Enola Gay's Britain people who say or write "should/could/would of" instead of "should/could/would have" will be the second group to be up against the wall after people who dawdle at cashpoints.

YES !!!!! And just before the execution of people who say “can I GET a coffee please”

[Stalbansclaret]

“Here,here” to signify agreement with someone rather than “Hear,hear”

[kaptin1]

Hendricks

[Goddy]

Are you going to finish your sentence?

[dougcollins]

Hendricks

Yes - we all know it's Hendrix.

Chris Woods told me.

[GetIntoEm]

Can I add people who fill up at petrol stations, then spend 10 minutes shopping before paying, then return to their car, reapply their make-up and reply to three text messages before setting off ... all while people are waiting behind them !

tbf its rather annoying, same as people who stand in a queue in a shop or supermarket and are then somehow surprised that they have to pay when its their turn, rummaging around in their bags for purses and generally faffing around.

cash points are particularly bad though, print a statement, check it on screen, take the money, print a receipt, check the receipt, count the money, find purse, put money away, stare around into space. some people need a capability assessment

[ColneMonkey]

More a pronunciation thing than a misused phrase, but as a Lancashire lad working in Yorkshire, I’m confused that they pronounce Bradford as Bratfud.

[bpgburn]

Slightly O/T but poor punctuation is my big bugbear. A comma can make such a difference e.g. 'Let's eat grandma' is very different to 'Let's eat, grandma'.

Apols for being soooooo sad (but still checks to make sure grammar etc is OK for fear of being virtually hung, drawn and quartered by those much cleverer than me)

Hanged..

[Bosscat]

More a pronunciation thing than a misused phrase, but as a Lancashire lad working in Yorkshire, I’m confused that they pronounce Bradford as Bratfud.

Always remember my mate Mike and I on the train from Southampton to Bournemouth back in the mid 90's (we were staying at my Sisters in Netley) & going to the Match... the announcer saying "welcome to the "Plymut" train this train will be stopping at "Bunmut" "Sidmut" Exeter and "Plymut" ..."
We were in stitches over that ... and its always been Plymut and Bunmut ever since ...

[ClaretTony]

I've been trying to " de-Burnley " the worst excesses of Mrs Clarets4me's accent for decades, old friend ! I've had limited success, we haven't had an " I'm agate " for nearly 20 years, but " crammed " and " oyned " still make occasional appearances !! Hope you're well !

You don't here agate and oyned very often now

[Bosscat]

You don't here agate and oyned very often now

I hear "Oyned" from my Padiham born Mrs .

[dougcollins]

'You've got another thing coming'.

It's actually 'You've got another think coming', as in you'd better think again.

[Volvoclaret]

I hear "Oyned" from my Padiham born Mrs .

Don't be agate oyned,it's oined.

[ClaretTony]

Don't be agate oyned,it's oined.

I must confess I'd have spelt it oined and not oyned but I'm sure either is acceptable. Apparently I used to oin my dad to death quite often.

[Bosscat]

Don't be agate oyned,it's oined.

I copied CT's spelling because as a Yorkie how the hell would I know how its spelled

[Volvoclaret]

My Mum is a Yorkie ( I've finally admitted I'm mixed County ) and she used oined, although she pronounced agate as egate.

[IanMcL]

In football "one of them things" instead of those, gets me every time and they virtually all say it!!!

Raised to the ground instead of razed.

[Rick_Muller]

Slightly O/T but poor punctuation is my big bugbear. A comma can make such a difference e.g. 'Let's eat grandma' is very different to 'Let's eat, grandma'.

Apols for being soooooo sad (but still checks to make sure grammar etc is OK for fear of being virtually hung, drawn and quartered by those much cleverer than me)

Indeed.

Helping your uncle Jack off a horse is very different to helping your uncle jack off a horse.

More for our friends down the road I suspect.

[tarkys_ears]

You're at the precipice of an enormous crossroads

[durhamclaret]

Anythink or Nothink or Somethink

[IanMcL]

On here we get a lot of 'he as' instead of 'he has'.

[ClaretTony]

I copied CT's spelling because as a Yorkie how the hell would I know how its spelled

And I copied Clarets4me’s spelling and that’s oined me