Oh, yea. There’s no ‘A’ in ‘Cemetery’.
And the express check-out is for 10 items or FEWER, dammit. (But I’ve noticed they’re getting better. ‘Less’ shows up a lot.)
Separately.
Ten Items or Less drives me nuts as well. As do those commercials for prescription drugs that announce “Side effects are low.” What exactly is that one meant to assume from that? Side effects will hit you near to the ground? Perhaps weak ankles are a side effect of that particular drug?
Which brings me to…
And all the general stores I’ve seen only allow you to buy specific things.
There’s no P in hamster.
Now you’re just being weird.
I must admit to the rediculous faux-pas. Old habits die hard. Imposter is another one that bugs me. And some of the usual commons like “vary” where “very” is intended and suchlike. Those just chafe my weiner…
You must not be in Wisconsin. “Employe” was the official state spelling of the word for years/decades because, and I kid you not, of all the money the state would save from not printing that extra “e” on all the state paperwork. Confused the hell out of me when I first moved here; I thought the entire state was illiterate. They changed the law effective in 2000 so that either “employe” or “employee” is acceptable for state business.
My missus pointed out a printed sign in a gas station near us the other day:
Sale’s asistant’s reqired.
Ooh, now there’s one that bothers me. It’s “wiener,” people. Wiener! Named after Wien (German for “Vienna”).
As a general rule, in German, “ie” is pronounced with a long e, and “ei” is pronounced with a long i.
I know. It was an “ie/ei” joke played off the first sentence of the post just to exemplify the, um … weirdness of the I before E rule. 
Their’s a rool agaynst vat.
It is strange, that I a terrible speller (with certified dyslexia) still get bothered by some misspellings dispite my own common failures. I will easily missuse their and there if I don’t check very carefully, yet if I see and notice such a missuse it can be jarring to me.
I find I’m a spelling hypocrit, but then again I never berate someone for their spelling except perhap-se in forming a joke from it.
Yeah, given the context I was pretty sure you knew it was wrong. You just reminded me of one of my spelling peeves, and gave me an opportunity to be pedantic.
I’ve seen signs that advertise “New Condo’s”.
A place that I eat at frequently has a professionaly-painted sign that has, among other errors, “Cheeze Pizza” and “food-bourne illness” (the latter on a mandated health warning about undercooked food). They didn’t notice them until I pointed them out.
That could be one of those pesky trans-Atlantic differences. I heard the “waiting on” a lot in England.
The one that kills me is i.e. and e.g. Constantly misused by otherwise intelligent people. Makes me very angry.
Please remember, folks: id est (“that is”) and example given. More here.
That one could be defended, on the grounds that apostrophes are also used to indicate when letters have been left out in a contraction. Here, the apostrophe could represent the missing “minium.”
There is no “I” in team.
Sounds like a myth that needs busting…oh, if only we had someone…SOMEONE to do such a thing…
…wheeeeeeere would we find such a person…
…Truth-Seekers? Fact Peoples? Weasels That Monger for Fun? it’s on the tip of my tongue…
Gah. Plural/possessive blunders probably annoy me most. For some reason it seems to be the least observed rule among the unwashed, yet it strikes me as one of the easiest to remember. (I can understand forgetting about plural possessive form, or ending-with-S possessives or ending-with-vowel plurals, since these aren’t used quite as often, but the plain ol’ plural/possessive should at least be easy enough)
I shouldn’t get so worked up, but I do anyway.
Except “condo” and its plural are perfectly good words.
But, there is a “me”.