What's your personal grammar or spelling pet peeve?

[dare2dream]

I was one of 300 employees that got a notice

'your invited to the company Christmas Party'​

What moron put that invitation together? And what moron let it get printed and delivered like that? Those morons all made more money than me but did not have any grammar sense. Your versus you're has always bothered me.

I also get crazy with dessert versus desert. I love those DCL posts about deserts that are actually about desserts. Many times I want to post and do a smack down about the spelling error but then I don't want to get any points.

I did jump on once to point out Holy carp. In retrospect I believe that is actually what the poster wanted to say because they did not feel crap was appropriate on the DIS.

Your invited to share your carp or desert now if desired.

 

[OKW93]

I was one of 300 employees that got a notice

'your invited to the company Christmas Party'​

What moron put that invitation together? And what moron let it get printed and delivered like that? Those morons all made more money than me but did not have any grammar sense. Your versus you're has always bothered me.

I also get crazy with dessert versus desert. I love those DCL posts about deserts that are actually about desserts. Many times I want to post and do a smack down about the spelling error but then I don't want to get any points.

I did jump on once to point out Holy carp. In retrospect I believe that is actually what the poster wanted to say because they did not feel crap was appropriate on the DIS.

Your invited to share your carp or desert now if desired.

Shouldn't it be "those morons all made more money than I ...."

 

[clh2]

Number one spelling mistake is ridiculous.


I hate seeing rediculous. Argh! Makes me crazy....but I always bite my tongue! LOL

This is a huge pet peeve of mine too!

And - If I ever offend anyone on the effect/affect usage, I apologize. I hated Mrs. Cramer's 7th grade English class, and they must have covered this topic that year!

 

[vanillamickey]

People use it instead of "verbiage". And it wouldn't bug me so much, except that I can odd looks when I say it the correct way!

Ok... but what's "verbiage"?

 

[damo]

Niagra.

 

[Suzie Zoo]

Ok... but what's "verbiage"?

LOL... let's see... how to define that. "The way something is worded." That's not an official definition... just my take on it.

We use it at work in this context... our online banking application has some disclaimers and stuff at the bottom. Sometimes people will send over an old application that doesn't have the new wording. So I've been known to say "We need the new application because of the verbiage at the bottom."

Niagra.

Oh yeah.

 

[Dixie Luvr 98]

None of them cause more than a blip on my radar

Those that do are your/you're and the cutsie words along with trying to make 'no one' into one word. Noone and none don't cut it.

 

[FSUDisneyGirl]

they're there their

AAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!


Vent over.

 

[kldmom2000]

When people spell loose instead of lose, as in I'm trying to loose weight

That drives me CRAZY too! I see it so often!

 

[Liberty Belle]

your/you're

As in: "Your not going to believe this!" Or "Your great!" I'm always thinking "Your great WHAT!"There are others that bother me but that one is the most annoying to me.

I do that, too.

Loosing/losing, quite/quiet, walla! (instead of voila!) all bug me.

The one that bugs me the most, though, is when people write suppose, when it should be supposed.

Oh, and one thing the kids at school say that annoys me to no end is "mines" instead of "mine."

Forgot: My number one spelling annoyance is when people spell "definitely" as "definately."

 

[Liberty Belle]

I cannot stand when people say that "they seen it." Double negatives and using the word AINT really bother me too! My father had me convinced that you even sound uneducated when you use the word GOT. He said it was a lazy word and there are many other words to replace it... "I received a gift", instead of "I got a gift." I used to always try to stump him with the word got, but he always had another way of wording the sentence to omit it.

I also run into a ton of people who can't seem to spell the word tomorrow.

I always remember the correct spelling by thinking "there are two r's in sorrow, and two in tomorrow."

 

[Luv Bunnies]

And I don't get the whole lay/lie thing..... I never know what to use

OK, I will explain lay/lie as it was explained to me by an english professor in college:

Lay: (don't get weird on me here, people) You have to lay something. You wouldn't say, "The book was laying on the floor." But you would say, "I layed the book on the floor," or "I layed the baby in the crib."

Lie: You wouldn't say, "The baby was laying in the crib." You would say, "The baby was lying in the crib." You wouldn't say, "I need to go lay down." You would say, "I need to go lie down."

So the key with lay/lie is that laying is an action that you do to something.

I will add my own pet peeve: Accommodate - double c, double m. I had a journalism professor in college who insisted we spell accommodate correctly. We had a spelling test every week with words most commonly misspelled by journalists. He gave the words over and over until 100% of the class got them right. Accommodate was the only word that remained on the test the entire semester. We tried to figure out who kept getting it wrong but whoever it was kept their mouth shut! This professor made it his life's mission to get the word spelled properly. He died a few years later while sitting at the editor's desk of our local newspaper. His pipe was in his mouth and he had a stroke and layed (there's that word again) his head on the desk and died. So I've continued his mission for him. Accommodate. There you go, Professor Boyd!

 

[famofsix]

When people spell loose instead of lose, as in I'm trying to loose weight

and loser spelled looser

 

[Kath2003]

Your and you're get me. It's not like they're even remotely confusing! You are = you're. Your = your!

Also its and it's.

 

[Feralpeg]

I'm not a fanatic when it comes to grammar, but I really dislike ready posts here that use texting abbreviations. It just seems incredibly lazy to me. I don't text, so it is just hard to read.

 

[crazyforgoofy]

I'm not a fanatic when it comes to grammar, but I really dislike ready posts here that use texting abbreviations. It just seems incredibly lazy to me. I don't text, so it is just hard to read.

i c ur point

 

[sunlver]

Only one for me, the word ain't...
I hate to listen to the word "Ain't
as well as people who use it when they are writing something.

 

[DISUNC]

i aint gotz none!

 

[fairykin]

i usually don't have alot of time online.

i'm here for info and entertainment.

i never worry about spelling or puncuation.

i don't mean it to be offensive.. it's just that i want to relax when i'm online.

 

[Kathi OD]

The one grammatical error that makes me crazy is the incorrect use of the word "seen."

"I seen him before." GRR!! The word "seen" needs a helping verb. "I have seen him before."