[Closed] Words that are not used as they were intended .

When you say 'intended' - who's intention are we talking about?

Caesars

strong and stable leadership
coalition of chaos

Actually the OED was updated last year with an additional definition of literally (as in figuratively), eg "I literally died".

A significant part of me did die. Literally.

"Disinterested" annoys me, people use it as synonymously with uninterested, but they're not the same.

Nazi.

Jealous and envious. I wish people would learn the difference.

Me, myself and I

Infer/imply

Also... "hence why".

*NICK SMASH*

apocalypse, nightmare and living(wage)

Sick

Stoked.

Gay

It was an inevitability, surely??

Rubber, Dutch oven, stroke (medical & ****ing), abseiling, knockers, back doors, Center Parcs.

Will that do?

decimate both of which are misused regularly

If you're mildly irritated by "decimate" not meaning the Roman Legion "reduce by a tenth" your mild irritation is misguided. Decimate means "to tithe", it's to do with collecting taxes.

Literally.

luxury, pro, almost anything used by advertisers. gits - all of them

Tragedy
Tragic

who's intention

Yes, who is he (or is it a she)?

Whose responsibility is it to tell us?

Regular.
I don't buy my bleeding chips or coffee here on a regular basis so stop asking me if I want that or large.

Fender.
You use them to keep coal from landing on your hearth mat or your boat from banging against the keep. They are useless at keeping mud off your arse.

Seeing as this is ostensibly a cycling forum - peddle and pedal...

and break and brake. Unless you actually break a brake.

Epic
OCD

always wonder why awful means what it means, because it strikes me that its use is the opposite of what it actually means if you deconstruct the word.

Worse/worst.
Who/whom.

always wonder why awful means what it means, because it strikes me that its use is the opposite of what it actually means

Thanks for that, that's the sort of linguistic wrangling that keeps me awake at night. See also, flammable and inflammable.

OCD

This x many!!

An equal quantity of many

See also: autistic - as in "a bit"

Spelling mistakes should be discounted here. Peddle/pedal is just someone who can't spell.

Which leads me to another - Dyslexia.

It doesn't mean you're a stupid thicko who can't spell.

"Deceptively", but mainly because there is no accepted consensus on what it actually does mean. Using it is deceptively risky.

If you're mildly irritated by "decimate" not meaning the Roman Legion "reduce by a tenth" your mild irritation is misguided. Decimate means "to tithe", it's to do with collecting taxes.

Both of which would be "historical" definitions.

Pretty much everyone uses it correctly, according to the current OED definition.

I'd go as far as to say, anyone that pretends to be irritated by people using it "incorrectly" is just looking for an excuse to sound clever. (Because they watched an episode of QI and remembered a bit of it)

But they are basically wrong. As the current definition shows.

Steed

of

as in could of, should of

brought

when used to signify a purchase

traditional

when referring to something which has happened twice before

Steed

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Rig.

Chief.

Weapon.

😆

engineer

Loose. But that's just people who can't spell 'lose', & they know who they are. ****s.

'I keep my keys in a zipped pocket so I don't loose them'

GGRRRR!! 👿

Nearly as bad as drivers who stop at roundabouts when there's nothing to stop for.

Hero .

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Electrocute.

engineer

Stunning - when used by estate agents.
Tremendous - when used by donald trump.
Most superlatives.

Vertigo

I don't know if it's improper use but "surreal" seems to be getting over-used these days espeially by thicko sportsmen and women when being interviewed having just won something. Like they haven't been living and breathing this moment for the last several years of their existance.

"I'll give it 110%" also grinds in similar circumstances. What's to stop an opponent giving 200% and beating them then?