Yeah! And “almost”, too. I DON’T CARE HOW COMMON IT IS, IT’S WRONG.
Sorry my pet peeve didn’t live up to your standards, dude. Next time, I’ll check with you first before getting annoyed.
Congradulations. You now spell it that way because of a pun you saw on a bloody greetings card.
Heh, sorry, I didn’t express myself well. It just seemed that your complaint seemed the least in touch with actual contemporary usage (and more along the lines of “Well, the self-labelled authorities say…”). But if it annoys you, well, it annoys you; can’t do anything about that.
A complete git e-mailed me yesterday complaining about his train journey. Gawd knows why he came to me instead of the train company but that’s another matter.
The message was nothing but a stream of unconsciousness of which Jems Joyce himself would have been proud. Apart from including no punctuation, he made almost every common mistake - there for their; should of instead of should have etc, but the one that got (up!) my goat the most was ALOT. Which he said alot.
Ah, such gems Joyce could only dream of…
The way people confuse advice with advise is my pet peeve.
Wait, I’m the self-labelled authority? I’m just going on what I learned in 6th grade. You’re the one nitpicking other peoples’ posts and critiquing their pet peeves without actually contributing your own.
Unless, of course, your pet peeve is people having pet peeves about grammar and spelling at all. In which case, why even bother reading a thread that you know will annoy you?
No, no, you’re not the self-labelled authority; the person who taught you in 6th grade was (which is to say, they may have made the assertion, but what backs it up? Particularly if this spelling is so popular…). I’m having great difficulty communicating without putting my foot in my mouth today, apparently. My apologies.
Anyway, forget it; I didn’t mean to make a big deal out of it, just to chide you slightly over the incongruity of sentiment such as “I DON’T CARE HOW COMMON IT IS, IT’S WRONG” when it comes to linguistic norms.
That, which made reading No Country for Old Men a bit of a grinding experience…
And also, ‘athiest’ instead of ‘atheist’. I suppose it’s probably used in a ‘cutesy’ fashion, especially around here, but still – as far as things that irrationally piss me off go, this is right up in front.
I agree with you–defiantly.
(I get this on about 3 papers/week. From college students. Whose native language is English. Gahhhh!)
Actually, I blame spellcheck for this one. Well, that and terminal laziness.
Also, we should make Febuary “national libarians month.”
Not to be snarky but shouldn’t this be ‘have’ instead “of”?
2 that are more spoken yet common in emails are:
irregardless (regardless) and walla (voila).
‘that’ and ‘which’ used interchangeably, eg ‘Company X that is known for iits widgets, has new challenges.’ (Should be “Company X, which…”)
“walla” for “voila” irritates me only when it’s obvious the person using it has no idea that it’s wrong. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m goofing when I say “viola” in the same context, but a stranger might not catch that. Same if I refer to “intensive purposes” - trust me, I’m just making a joke. Sadly, some people don’t get it.
Like many folk’s, it drive’s me nut’s when people use apostrophe’s incorrectly. What’s even more irritating is that now I have to stop and think hard about my own punctuation use and spelling. Years of errors have wormed into my brain, and that which came almost naturally must now be pondered.
I pride myself on my carefully correct spelling, and yet… I’ve now just realised I have been spelling “reins” incorrectly since forever.
I think this is more of a Grate Debates topic/
36 posts and no one has commented on its vs** it’s**? It’s not that hard to figure out, people!
Oh, and put me in the ALRIGHT is not a word column.
It’s because of those people that there aren’t any apostrophes left to use when people type your and mean you’re.
People seem to do that alot, err, a lot. They do THAT a lot, too.
Heh. Hope you don’t go see Iron Man. That exact thing almost ruined an otherwise excellent movie for me.
My list is far too long, being a perfectionist.
Viola when you mean voila. One is a musical instrument. One isn’t. Guess which is which.
Ect. If you knew how to pronounce it you wouldn’t be spelling it that way.
Moot vs. mute. Both are words, but they have different meanings.
Something which really bugs me but which unfortunately seems to have become accepted is to “try and do something”. A far more logical phrase is “try to do something”.