pet peeves -people who use the wrong but similar sounding words for things...

[joko]

such as muslim, instead of muslin, scrimp instead of scrim, scram instead of scran, voluMptuous instead of voluptuous,

even heard read someone say kathryn obvious instead of captain obvious...!

i have heard loads of others i cant recall just now...

some will even argue with you about it too...!

any one got any good ones??

cheers

[boxtops]

my old chestnut - pacific instead of specific

less often: hoist with your own petard - people I know say foist, I argue but I never win

would of, instead of would have....

[NoMercy]

Prawn as opposed to Pawn.

[boxtops]

I love that one - I'm just a prawn in the game.

[237SJ]

My gran went to M&S and said she wanted a griddle and she meant girdle. One of my colleagues was talking to another rather ladylike colleague who said her new man was a great cook but the aforementioned colleague was asking her loads of details about size because she thought she said he had a great cock!

[joko]

dont get that one vibrasphere...