And I'll add any time I see "I" in place of "me" (e.g. "Her and I") or any other equally appalling misuse of personal pronouns.
Prolly kills me. Probably people, not prolly. Prolly is not a word.
A lot of my other peeves have already been mentioned. (Faze and phase, rein and reign being two biggies.)
I know it's technically correct (now, since it's 30 years later) but SS'S kills me. Boss's, class's, Russ's...I hate the trailing S after a double S with a flaming passion. My former boss never got a Boss' Day card because I could never find one without that third freaking S.
Dropping the "to be" - The lawn needs mowed. My hair needs cut.
Have you been hanging out with my grandma? She also says "So I says..."
::Scratches eyeballs out::
My FIL says "I seen," "acrossed" (e.g., "acrossed the street"), "heighth," and "chipolte." The last one might seem like NBD, but he is a big fan of spicy foods, especially "chipolte" peppers. And he makes every store name into a plural/possessive. I dread the day the ILs' town gets a Chipotle. I will visibly twitch at the sentence, "I seen a Chipolte went in acrossed the street from Target's."
Post by sporklemotion on Jul 15, 2013 6:06:02 GMT -5
For misspellings, why doesn't spell check seem to help people with "dilemma?" I've seen delemma, delema, dilema, dilemna, etc. Are these real words I've just never seen?
This is currently taped to the computer of a coworker (and friend of mine). I made it for him after I caught this error for about the tenth time. And it made it through our professional editors!
Also, I absolutely hate when people pronounce height as HEIGHTH. Like heighth and width.
Someone I know through work says "supposably" on a regular basis. Its to where she says it so often that it would be just as humiliating for her if it was corrected at this point.
Post by LauraMoser on Jul 15, 2013 11:12:54 GMT -5
This was posted to a group on FB that I belong to. I thought of GBCN as soon as I read it, and was tempted to ask the poster if they are a GBCNer, lol.
Why does everyone on this page have horrible grammar? Also, punctuation was created for a purpose.
Post by fortnightlily on Jul 15, 2013 12:59:30 GMT -5
I am not reading all 5 pages, so apologies if someone already covered this, but I hate when I don't know if people are being tongue-in-cheek, or just incorrect:
I am not reading all 5 pages, so apologies if someone already covered this, but I hate when I don't know if people are being tongue-in-cheek, or just incorrect:
I am not reading all 5 pages, so apologies if someone already covered this, but I hate when I don't know if people are being tongue-in-cheek, or just incorrect:
I typed the incorrect way into Google images (on purpose) and then chose the correct one in an attempt to be funny. That's what I get for not eating lunch yet.