Another "misspellings or grammatical errors that drive you nuts" thread

I’ll open with formally/formerly.

“Grand Opening: Jim’s Bar and Grill (formally known as Lou’s Bar)”

That means that if you’re a friend you can call it Jim, but if it’s your first time, you better call 'em Lou.

I’ve seen this one a lot recently, even in newspaper stories and memos when they clearly mean “formerly”.

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My ultimate, mentioned many times before but never enough: the place is a

LIBRARY

I am a LIBRARIAN

The first R is NOT silent, and since you said the second R just fine, I know you can say R. Now say my profession again bitch! And this time don’t make it sound like I’m from Monrovia (not that there’s anything wrong with that) or I’m gonna raise 8 kinds of hell up in hyeah!

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There’s a gift shop I pass frequently that has this sign out in front by the balloons:
“Ballonn’s
5.00$”

Drive me nuts every single time I see it.

You’re doing God’s work, son.

Loose for lose is about the worst one for me.

Reign for rein. I saw it in the paper yesterday and nearly died (it was something like ‘handing over the reigns’ - it was bad.)

I honestly think that we’ve loosed the battle on this one. :smack:

“payed” drives me absolutely up the wall. Good lord, it’s not like “paid” is some obscure word or something.

This isn’t quite related, but I’ll use your post as a springboard.

I see this written all the time:

She gave me $5 dollars.

What the hell? $ means dollars! You can have 5 dollars or $5, but not $5 dollars.

They finally fixed it, but for a time, on my way home, there was an awning on a local store-front spa offering “therapuedic” massages. Now I can’t look at the corrected spelling, either, without flinching.

Actually, this is a trick, you should parse it as ($5) + 5 dollars = $10. Well, at least I do this (tongue in cheek) just to be a dick.

I thought of one though, my friend pronounces “console” (as in an XBox 360, not as in “to console someone”) as “council,” which drives me right up the goddamn wall. (He also pronounces Nuclear “Nukular” I’m about ready to try [del]electroshock[/del] speech therapy on him).

“rediculous”.

“alright” makes me almost physically violent. I DON’T CARE HOW COMMON IT IS, IT’S WRONG.

Why is it so impossible to spell the word DEFINITELY correctly?

I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it. The past tense of the verb “to lead” is LED. It is not lead. It was bad enough when I kept seeing it in our newspaper that way, but now it’s showing up even here. You people are smart, you know better.

Most of them are simply minor irritations, but for some reason discreet/discrete can really set me off.

A few weeks ago, I saw one of those banners in the corner of my television screen that networks are so fond of these days, promising a sneak “peak” of some new show. Arrgh!

Because of this mixup, and the fact that I tend to follow math or science discussions online way before I get to the topic in real life I was always confused about what the hell a “discreet” <insert relevant topic> was. I never got it until moths later when someone came in and finally lost it, chastising everyone for not using “discrete” - as soon as he said “discrete” everything I’d been following up to that point made a whole lot more sense.

Should of
Could of
Would of
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! homicide

That’s mine, too. I even started a pit thread about it once. It irritates the piss out of me.

I’ll never tire of responding that you’re only getting one R from me, and it ain’t the second.

If you’d like to settle it like men, meet me in the 410s.

I read several auto related forums. Every day, without fail, someone will post a question/complaint about the breaks on their car.

Living in AZ, I frequently see Tucson spelled as Tuscon.

I chuckled at a recent Craigslist posting seeking “hammydowns” and other recycled clothing.

The all-time best is “grammer”. Usually seen on message boards by someone attempting to belittle another poster’s spelling & grammer. Comedy gold, I tell ya.

The florist shop near my inlaws’ old house that offered “Bokays” for sale. The types and prices would change, but never the spelling. HELLO IT’S YOUR BUSINESS, SPELL IT RIGHT!

Also, I would like to tell everyone on the internet that there is no such word as ‘persay’.

Both of those make me want to kill.

If you pronounce it “lie-bree”, how do you know which ‘R’ you’re giving? It could be either one…