Words people use that are incorrect

Stereotypical, wrong.
Atypical, correct.

disregardless

irregardless is the more common flarp.

affect and effect

points are never mute, they are moot

supposebly...come here, *smack!*

Unless you're that fat tongued fecker, Jamie Oliver, there's no excuse.

The Amis that write "There" instead of "Their"

"would of", "could of", "should of" etc

When they mean "would've", etc

people who use etc all the time.

Crisps and pickle. Crisp describes the item, it's not the item. To pickle is a process, it's not the item.

loose and lose!

Rubbish, crisps are an item, I'll have a packet of Cheese and Onion crisps please and I would like them to be crisp, not soggy! Bloody colonials, you've got no idea.

I'm pretty sure Pickle can correctly be used as a noun and verb.

The word "pedant" when one really means "anal orifice".

Ridiculous is spelt with an "i". There is no such word as "rediculous".

If you do a search on TT for the non-word "rediculous", you get 5 pages worth of posts.

Wrong, wrong, wrong...

They're "chips" because that's exactly what they are...chips of potato (which are crisp). Bloody English with their bastardisation of English.


Not in real English

Oed lists pickle as a noun and a verb..

I hate when people say play it by year instead of play it by ear...

Unless you are a bored fisherman whose hunger causes him to sample the tackle, you probably aren't waiting with "baited breath"

You are waiting with "bated breath"

The clue to the correct use of English is in the name! They're not chips of potato, they are slices of potato. A bag of chips looks like this:

"alot" is NOT a word. A (space) lot... as in many. exp. I had a lot of crisps for lunch.

For some reason that mistake is made on here all the time and makes me crazy because it is rather easy to spell "a lot"!

when people spell definitely as "definately"...really sends shudders down my spine.

They're both chips, because that's exactly what they are, chips (ie bits) of topato. They're certainly not "crisps of potato" are they? Not all chips (crisps) are just slices, there are some that take other forms.

No, they are potato crisps, made from potato slices, anything else are potato snacks. Chips are what you have with fish, as in fish and chips. Or do you eat crisps with your fish in the colonies?

This thread needs pictures..

sticking an "e" on the end of potato and tomato

"expecially"

Surprised no one mentioned the amazingly common "your" in place of "you're". Seen it way too many times here on TT.

Not to mention "it's" instead of "its" and "who's" instead of "whose".

"Please fill out between the gaps."
Or, when you are repeating something for the first time: "I repeat again ..."
Myself - to be avoided at most times
Random capitals - German is bad enough about them
Critique - what's wrong with criticism?

sure you weren't listening to a Welshman? Year, ear and here are pronounced almost identically in many south walian dialects.

My personal pet hate is when people say they have "Two choices" when they really mean they have "a choice" (between two options).

or two twins

"She gave birth to two twins"

...and that the plural of fish is fish...and not fishes

Both fish and fishes are correct.

I know you brits call them crisps. Why? Because they are crisp, no? But what they actually are is chips (or slices if you prefer) of potato which have been fried/baked until they are crisp.


We eat chups with our fish. As crisps do not exist.

I've made this mistake myself but not because I don't know the difference, but because I type words not letters when I type and sometimes, I just make a typo. I've actually caught myself a couple of times.

yep, I've never thought of that actually... I guess it should be two potential choices of which one could make one... if wanting to point out the fact that there are two.

Also, when someone says "x is begging the question" when they really mean "x leads us to ask the question".

Apre´s ski. Drives me nuts every time I see it. Apre is ski???

They are slices of potato, not chips, fried to make them crisp, hence the name, potato crisps, shortened by most people to crisps.

Wtf are chups?

The whole world has heard of Fish and Chips.

Nobody mentioned the apostrophe yet? And there and their and they're?

And 'Myself' is usually in the wrong place too.

In Timmeh's post most likely just a typo. I very much doubt that he eats lollipops with his fish.

Kay, we're talking about Timmeh here ...

Indiscriminate use of direct objects as nominative subjects: Him and me went to the cinema.
Use of nominative forms for indirect objects: "I feel the hunger between you and I" ("Hungry Eyes"), "If she ever found out about you and I" ("Run For You").

Unless he's saying it NZ style, "Fush & Chups"...

To, too and two. It's really not too hard to write the right one, right?

Bingo

Since a picture speaks a thousand words, let me borrow from an earlier thread:

Fine continue in your backward labeling of chips. The inventors of such an item, called them chips. The world calls them chips. The UK doesn't. Congratulations.

Screw "the world". Krouts call crisps chips, and that's a good enough for me to never do the same. The UK is allowed to call crisps crisps, because its our language, and anyway, we don't have rabies, unlike the dirty french.

As we buy them and make them we will call them what we damn well please thank you!

As the UK is part of the world, the world doesn't call them 'chips'..

How can it be backward if the name 'crisps' came after chips? If we were to call them chips, then it would be backward labeling

I have no problem with the simple adaption of name and products when in anohter country where there may be other terms for them.
In the states I used trash cans instead of bins, did not cause me any trouble at all.

On returning back to the UK, I reverted to using bins without noticing the difference.

I have also had few problem with aluminium cans in either country, I have always found the correct 'bin' or 'can' to put them in.

Then again, as the makers sliced deep friend tatties have made the extra effort to put pictures on the packaging I find this eliminates many of the potential problems.

EDIT: Please note, the above post includes sarcasm even if not obvious to the reader

But the item is not your item, it's American, therefore the original name "chips" is correct. It'd be the same if the rest of the world started calling roast beef, boot...just because. Fine go ahead and call it that, but it's wrong...no matter whose name is attached to the language.

Hehe. Welcome to a day in the life of an international English speaking couple.

"chips vs. crisps" is fight #437, which comes after "pants vs. trousers" and before "purse vs. handbags"