What are your adult "blind spots"

busbyuk · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:06

Not mine but something which i see all the time on forums is people saying "I could care less" instead of "I could not care less"

Don't know why it winds me up so much but there you go.

PiKe · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:07

People referring to all tablets as iPads.

Although this is partly Apple's fault.

Castiel · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:09

I have far too many to mention.......

Edrof · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:11

I hear a lot of Brits pronouncing schedule as skedule and patriotic as paytriotic, but is that simply the evolution of language or are they doing it wrong?

PiKe · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:12

If enough people do it wrong, its evolution.

Bloomfield · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:16

Edrof said:
I hear a lot of Brits pronouncing schedule as skedule and patriotic as paytriotic, but is that simply the evolution of language or are they doing it wrong?

Paytriotic and Patriotic are both correct in British English, shedule is correct in British English

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I say Skedule because it seems easier to say

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Edit: Actaully, both forms of schedule are correct in British English, Oxford just have one of the versions on their page where they say the words, both are listed on the pronunciation bit from the normal dictionary

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Nismo · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:18

I used to think the phrase that describes something as being popular at that time was "all the range"...not until a few years back did I realise it was "rage"

A friend also thought for ages that the Americanism "my bad" was actually "my bag"

Amleto · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:19

Moothead2 said:
What is this second meaning !?

PiKe said:
I'm guessing, side as in, food?

the death (heaven/hell) side of things. e.g. He's passed to the 'other side'.

PiKe · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:19

My girlfriend writes "as a pose" rather than "as opposed".

:mad:

joeyjojo · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:20

Edrof said:
I hear a lot of Brits pronouncing schedule as skedule and patriotic as paytriotic, but is that simply the evolution of language or are they doing it wrong?

Differences in dialect.

My gf thought clever clogs was clever cogs. Like toothed wheels in a machine. I suppose clever wooden shoes doesn't make much more sense...

TheStarkFactor · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:26

One of my friends once said "If I was trying to be subtle, you'd know about it'.

Still cracks me up to this day!

The IPB · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:27

My Dad says a-parently instead of apparently.

Always cracks me up.

Meaker · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:31

Resident said:
I don't even think the correct version of this applies anymore. Given some of the weak sentences some criminals get I think that judges must be constantly on the sauce.

It was always meant as a tongue in cheek saying

Confused · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:31

valve90210 said:
Not quite the same but for the first three Harry Potter books, I registered Hermione as Herimone, never questioned it until I was reading the fourth book and noticed how it was spelt and went back and checked the others to see if I had been mis-seeing it all along...I had!!!

Belmit said:
Also, having never seen or heard the name Hermione before the HP books, I read it as 'Hermy-own'. What a div.

I did the same as Belmit, having read the first 3-4 few books before seeing any of the films... I heard someone say "Her-my-oh-knee" and wondered who they were talking about...

The IPB · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:35

Fitting username

unwashed potato! · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:42

i never knew it was kristen stewart in panic room. just when i think she can't get any hotter i watch the film today and was pleasantly surprised.

Feek · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:44

Belmit said:
Also, having never seen or heard the name Hermione before the HP books, I read it as 'Hermy-own'. What a div.

Confused said:
I did the same as Belmit, having read the first 3-4 few books before seeing any of the films... I heard someone say "Her-my-oh-knee" and wondered who they were talking about...

In the books, Viktor Krum can't pronounce her name properly and she says it phonetically for him - I think that was put in specifically for that reason. I'm with Belmit in that's how I read her name.

Ant84 · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:44

My ex girlfriend thought Jimi Hendrix was a snooker player.

Skidder · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:46

Confused said:
I did the same as Belmit, having read the first 3-4 few books before seeing any of the films... I heard someone say "Her-my-oh-knee" and wondered who they were talking about...

Helpfully I had snogged a frightfully posh Hermione a couple of months before I read the first book. I managed to mangle the real life name rather than the fictional character.

Yas786 · 10 Dec 2012 at 14:47

MissChief said:
It's a Router because it 'routes' data to where it needs to go as opposed to a Row(having a fight with partner)ter which cuts channels in wood.

Also, its day-ta. Not sure why but it is. Anyone who says da-ta annoys me no end.

Uhhh yeh i know that, im just saying that there are differences in how the N Americans and British pronounce certain words. I still to this day call a router a rowter even though i know its rooter but meh i like annoying people and im also the same with the American pronounciation of tomatoes

Belmit said:
But they often pronounce 'route' as 'rowt', especially when talking about data flow, so makes sense to them. Doesn't make them any more right though.

Indeed this is it pretty much, when im in Canada and say the british promounciation they look at me as if im some sort of retard that doesnt know how to pronounce words