Also people who get definitely and defiantly mixed up.

People who get consequently and subsequently muddled. A good many do.

I do that all the time, its not the meaning I get mixed up, its the spellings.

6 months ago I could phone the GP and get an appointment the next day.
These days I have to wait almost a week. How did it happen in such a short time?


and that I have a foot infection which is agony and pain killers do f all !

I had no idea my neighbour had a phobia about the tall tree in my back garden until the day I opened the local newspaper to see an article about a woman's 'terror' of a 'dangerous' tree accompanied by a photo of the back of my neighbours head staring out of her 2nd storey bedroom window at our tree

Couldn't find a chippy. One has closed down, two converted to bog standard takeaways and the one that is a dedicated chippy had a line out of the door.

Couldn't be arsed to drive around looking for another after visiting 4.

People taking trolleys to the self-checkout in supermarkets thus taking up two stations - one for them and one for their trolley. Is the "Baskets only" sign not big enough?

People leaving their litter in the trolley when they leave.

Not wishing to sound as tho I'm trying to out do you, but one week is exceptional compared with my surgery where yesterday they offered me an appointment for 20th August.

People who let their toddlers wearing nappies, sit inside the trolley, with all the food around them
How hygienic!

And genuinely and generally. I'm hearing it a lot these days.

I blame the USA. Americans don't know there's a difference and use the word "insure" even when they mean "ensure".

I can get a same day appointment if I walk in (it's around the corner; no poiint phoning) at 8.30am. I once asked at 10am. I had to wait almost a week. Bit pissed that I had to hand in a prescription a few days later, and someone got an appointment the same day.

Ohh... I should add my own ability to procrastinate. After 4 months of unemployment I've still yet to go out and have a day writing and drinking in a near by city.

I have two websites ready to publish to and a notepad in my laptop bag but the inspiration to leave the house seems to be on an extended spring / summer holiday!

Similarly to "ensure"/"insure", "accept" and "except" it often seem confused; I've seen this even in professional writing.

and, in a similar vein/vain (wink):

"compliment"/"complement".

"lightning"/"lightening"

"cord"/"chord"

And is it "dependent" or "dependant"?

The old "fewer"/"less" chestnut.

"discreet"/"discrete"

"phase"/"faze"

The old "can"/"may" chestnut, as in, "Can I help you?"

"founder"/"flounder"

"climactic"/"climatic"

"council"/"counsel"/"councillor"/"councilor"/"counselor"/"counsellor"

"grisly"/"grizzly"

"homogeneous"/"homogenous"

"laid"/"layed"/"lain" - this is fairly complex. "He had laid on his bed all day," is actually wrong, as is, "He had layed on his bed all day." The correct one is, "He had lain on his bed all day." This is wrong all over the place.

"loath"/"loathe"

"miniscule" is wrong; it's "minuscule".

pronunciation of "mischievous" as if it's got four syllables.

"peninsular" is wrong; it's "peninsula" (for the noun; the former is the adjective form).

There's a difference between "phosphorus" and "phosphorous". Apparently 90% of the uses of the latter are wrong.

"practice"/"practise"

"wrack"/"rack"

It's "restaurateur" not "restauranteur"

The old "shall"/"will" thing.

"stationary"/"stationery"

"calender"/"calendar"

The old "who"/"whom" chestnut.

"should"/"would", as in, "I should/would like to do that."

The old, "If I was a rich man," thing. It should be, "If I were a rich man." The old subjunctive.

I would hazard/hazzard a guess, there are very few people in Britain who know how to always use all the above forms/alternatives correctly (I'm certainly not suggesting I do!) You'd have to be professor of English at Oxford or something.

The motorway sign which says use BOTH lanes not EITHER lane ~ what do they want me to do, straddle them.

In addition to Sambda's list of word mistakes I'd add the misuse of "somewhat" - as in when people say eg. "I'm somewhat of a connoisseur"... It's "something" in that instance. "Somewhat" goes with a simple adjective (as in, fittingly, "it's somewhat annoying"!)

Countries who aren't imaginative to have anything more complicated than a tricolour for a flag should be bombed. And this includes those with the bars horizontal or vertical. And don't think you can stick a crappy bit of clipart in the middle and get away with it (e.g. India, Serbia etc.)

Hm. OK.

Do you also think they deserve to have 84 of their citizens (children included) mown down by a runaway truck?

Oh dear.

The way I wake up early on a day off but snooze the alarm two or three times when I have to go to work.

Well, quite. Sorry if I missed the humour through a lack of smileys.

People who fart and then, having noticed you heard them, say apologetically, "Better out than in, eh?"

This is a tongue-in-cheek thread. Of course, there is no connection between my comments about tricolour flags and wanting the tragedy in France to have occurred.

Fair enough, apologies. Maybe not the ideal time to have said though

(And I'd have thought most of the gripes being posted are genuinely felt rather than being tongue-in-cheek? Mine certainly are...)

I see 'quite' used a lot on DS instead of 'quiet' but I assume this is just a typo or predictive text thing.

What annoys me is when 'cue' and 'queue' are used interchangeably, as though they meant the same thing. Also, when it's spelt 'que' or even 'kew' (and not as in Kew Gardens).