Words people use that are incorrect

This makes my skin crawl. I end conversations with people who use this term.

I also hate the misspelling of 'weird' as 'w i erd' and when people say/write 'weary' instead of 'wary'. And the incorrect usage of 'for all intents and purposes'.

Also, somewhat off topic, but I wish people would learn the difference on the keyboard between the accent sign and an apostrophe. It's not it´s. Bugs the hell out of me everytime I see it.

The item doesn't actualy belong to anyone. I can make them at home.

Raost beef is known by many names across the world, however boot could be used to describe whats its like when cooked by some people, as in..

Tough as an old...

If we go down this raod, football was invented in the UK.. and it doesnt involve carrying the ball..

pants & trousers are the same thing in my book. I say pants mostly because trousers sounds very old fashioned, and also because the word underpants makes more sense then too.

how about at the weekend vs on the weekend?

followed closely by trainers vs. sneakers

edit:--and that post was supposed to follow ER's closely...damn people are fast here.

vs. runners

Belong is the wrong word...true. But whoever invented said item, should have naming rights.

Well, that's true that it doesn't involve carrying a ball, that's why it's called football...or did I miss something?

And 'buoy' which in English is pronounced 'boy' but in American is 'buooey' or something stupid like that.

Hey, another thread descended into American bashing! Smashing

Don't even get me started on pronunciation!

Hearing the British pronunciation of "vitamins" makes me want to throw myself things off a cliff.

You mean pronunciation?

Touche! (I have no accented E on this keyboard)

ooops, fixed it!

I "love" the way certain north americans pronounce "due" and "do" exactly the same.

not as much as I love the way certain Welshmen write and pronounce "aluminum" as "aluminium"

Edit: in case anyone is keeping track: fight #1,048

I hate it when someone uses the word "people" when they really mean "Americans"

Good - it was well embarasing/embarrasing/embarassing/embarrassing.

#1: brackets v. braces v. suspenders v. garters
#2: tea v. dinner v. supper
#3: kitkins v. damn cat

@ LS: d) without a lifeline

Oooh, yes, I love that too. And when they say "a couple times" without the preposition. Oh man.

I bet it's even sexier when they say things like "I seen".

Hearing the N. American pronunciation of "vitamins" makes me want to throw them off a cliff.

imminent, eminent, immanent.

Book: Common Errors in English Usage

Link to Engrish.com

pronunciation wise...

americans and germans : YOgert

the only true language: yogut

it's pronounced yogut NOT YOgert

North American vitaman pronunciation is horrible. Do you also say vital in the same way? Same with some N. American people who say "Oi-row" instead of "you-row" for Euro. Do we live in Oi-rope?

Yes, we say vitamins the same way we say vital with a long i sound but as far as I know the Brits say vital the same way we do (with the long i).

Perhaps someone can confirm.

North americans say oi-row? Never heard that..

Fine, let's bash the Brits a little...

We invented it, therefore it is called a "Flashlight"

Torches are something you light on fire and use to rouse un-dead monsters from their castles (and occasionally werewolves)

For the record, I come from New England, so I speak correct New English... that's English 2.0 The new standard.

You give us vittamins and we'll give you erbs.

I think pronouncing it "oi-row" is meant to be a joke.

What bugs me about (some) American pronunciation is "Iraq" with a long I (I-raq) instead of short. Where does that come from?

I would say vital with a long i as well, but wild horses would not get me to say vitamins like a North American. I have to constantly correct my daughters pronunciation of things like tomatoes, as she picks up the incorrect way of saying things from the American teeny programmes that she watches!

Very confusing, I wonder what Timmeh was referring to then?

I prefer tatties to erbs and vItamins any day of the week.

When heading to an undead castle I am not going with TFL, torches to tackle wearwolves!!! and we never 'like' them

But a flashlight doesn't flash, not unless you switch it on and off very quickly a lot...

Well we obviously improved them, because ours don't just flash they shine a light constantly, like, erm, a torch!

Huh? Ah, you mean a pocket-lamp?

Or a penlight?

Perhaps he meant vittles, but I thought that was an 'mericanism as well!

Most of the Brit cooking programs I watch have people saying h-erbs right, left and center. Not to mention raditchio and broushetta.

Don't yanks say "vittamins" not "Vytimins"

No, other way round.

No, you got it backwards.

We say vytamins (like vytal) and the Brits say vittamins (like nothing).

Firstly, the torches are purely for rousing and visual identification purposes, not to be used as counter-undead weaponry. I’m sure fire has some effect on werewolves (were, not wear, BTW). However, my expertise is limited primarily to Zombie attack preparation and survival, since quite frankly things like vampires and werewolves are rediculous superstitious myths.

And real werewolves (the kind that people do not wear ), I mean the ones that comes from where they were invented are not scared of torches, flashlights, len light or packet lamps...

They come from the 'old' country and as such, play footie with a turnip

Zombie prep and attack is a tricky subject, are we talking the 'walking around with a hang over' kind of the new 'bloody quick on its feet for a dead thing' type?

Ahh, whoops...well the Brits have got that one well wrong!

Thank you.

ER - 1
OG - 0

'Tis what I meant.

Hey, I see scores being posted..

Is that the wins or the mistakes made?

"loch" pronounced "lock"

Like vitrine.

So I'm curious - if you N. Americans shorten 'vitamin' to 'vit' (and you do, it's in The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary), how is that pronounced then? "Full of vite D"? Hmm.

I've never shortened vitamins to vit. Perhaps someone else knows?

"burglarize" what kind of retardation is that for a word?
Checks for cheques? Lazy buggers!!

Have you ever heard the way that bloody Americans pronounce the word route or router. I nearly fell off my chair when I heard them all saying rowt(er). The thing is that the bloody Americans have got the whole company pronouncing the word in this way and as I'm the only native Brit here everybody looks at me as though I'm really weird and totally wrong when I say the word correctly!