Please, please stop saying...

[ailbhe]

"Only you can make yourself feel guilty." This is not true - what is true is that only you can stop yourself from feeling guilty, which is totally different and much harder.

"Dialated." Your cervix is not a telephone.

"Loose" instead of "lose" and vice-a versa. The former is confusing and the latter is irritating.

"No offense but" and all similar variations on the theme.

Thank you. (And you can all stop saying "Thankyou" while you're about it, and all).

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[megamole.livejournal.com]

"loose" = "set free".
"lose" = "not win".

Please remember the difference.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

If you're speaking of the drink, as far as I am aware it's called a "mai tai" over here in the States, and always has been.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

Dialated

Aargh.

Reminds me of one of my neighbours here who kept talking about going for a mangiogram, instead of a mammogram...

[helenprev.livejournal.com]

So which is right; Thank you or thankyou? I am generally an extremely pedantic speller but have never been at all sure which of those is correct!

[ailbhe]

"I thank you" is the original phrase, and thankyou alloneword has not yet been officially deemed correct.

I believe that in many parts, one can say "cheers" and avoid the issue entirely.

[helenprev.livejournal.com]

Cheers! :-D

Now you have said it, that makes perfect sense. I will now annoy myself every single time I say 'thank you' until I have learned not to! ;-)

Actually, in real life, I do say 'cheers' more often than not.

[ailbhe]

No no no - "Thank you" is a perfectly correct abbreviation of "I thank you". I only spelled it out to make it easier to remember that it's not alloneword.

[megamole.livejournal.com]

*beep*

"This cervix is currently engaged. Please try later."

*beep*

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

"No offense but"

That's a good one. It seems like any statement that begins with that phrase is bound to offend.

Why is that?

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Following up to that, you also have to deal with the offense/offence variant on spelling between the US and the UK.

I think Webster must have been sleeping when he made some of the changes to the English language that he did in writing his dictionary... Subtleties like "tyre" and "tire" serve a purpose; they make the noun a different entity from the verb. Same with other spelling differences, i.e. "kerb" and "curb". But in the US, a noun is apparently a verb, and vice-versa.

[bookwitch.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, YES!

As far as "No offense, but"...if you have to preface something by that, it's a safe bet that you SHOULDN'T SAY IT. (Same for "I'm not racist, but.." or "I'm not a homophobe, but..." and other variations)

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

And also "with all due respect".

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

The one that drives me insane is the it's/its problem.

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

"I don't mean to be criticizing but..."

And my most hated one: the use of "literal" when "figurative" is the word desired

[noonle.livejournal.com]

*blush*

Stumbled on your journal through the august community, and realized that I was guilty of "dialating" instead of "dilating." :) I'm not the best speller in the world, but usually I can catch my mistakes and fix them, and I absolutely hate when people mispell words like that. My biggest pet peeve is alot vs. a lot. Grumble...

Mostly wanted to wish you good luck on your upcoming c-section... and I hope your mom can get there in time!