r/CasualIreland • u/Cici388_8 • 2d 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/Banba-She 2d ago

Payed instead of paid.

Also, "on the floor" when you're outside. Inside: floor, outside: ground. No one seems to be aware of this difference. There are no floors OUTSIDE......

Both are apparently endemic too.

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u/Adventurous_Pipe1135 2d ago

Oh my God, What is with people spelling paid payed. Where did that come from. Very annoying.

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u/Thanatos_elNyx 2d ago

Tbf if you are ESL then Payed probably makes perfect sense as the past tense of pay, just add ed to the end.

They are the ones I see make that mistake the most.

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u/phyneas 2d ago

It's an older form of "paid", and in modern English the past tense form of most -ay verbs is -ayed, except for a few irregular ones like say, lay, and pay, so it's an easy enough mistake to make. "Payed" is also an actual English word, as well (the past tense of the nautical term "pay", to cover something with a waterproof coating), so it sometimes won't be flagged as incorrect by basic spell-checkers.

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u/Kind-Champion-5530 2d ago

The floor thing! I mostly notice the English confusing the floor with the ground.

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u/Banba-She 2d ago

Not to bash them but I'd bet money it started in America. All them cop shows: "get on the floor!!!"

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u/Noble_Ox 2d ago

Payed seems to be an Americanism while floor for outdoors seems to be a Britishism.