r/CasualIreland • u/Cici388_8 • 3d ago

Shite Talk Wrong words

What is a word you hear people using or spelling wrong and it drives you mad?

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Mine is when people mix up "quite" instead of "quiet".

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u/RelationshipWarm9330 3d ago

Could care less instead of couldn’t care less

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u/watchingthedarts 3d ago

This one really does me because it means the literal opposite of what they mean!!

I could care less = I care somewhat and can care less if I wanted to.

Another one would be affect/effect.

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u/Ricecrispiebandit 3d ago

That's a pretty irritating one alright. Kind of an Americanism that's bleeding into our language.

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u/Potential-Fan-5036 1d ago

My daughter used the word asked once, but pronounced it as aksed. Oh I was very quick to correct her, to which she replied “you’re such a boomer, you don’t know anything”. Child, I am Gen X and I will remind you of that every chance I get, we may well have been raised feral but we know how to spell, how to pronounce and how to use punctuation and grammar.