fallsauce

I don't know how people confuses they're/their/there. Actually, for me, I think I remembered it at first by saying: their has an 'i' in it, which looks like a person, which must mean it's something to do with people!
They're is just they are, how hard is that? It's like filling in the blanks!

I also hate people who say thin*g/k* instead of thing. I've noticed Simon Cowell does this...

Affect vs. Effect... Geez, you don't even pronounce them the same way.

And this is something I do that drives one of my friends crazy. I have a habit of saying bought when I mean brought, I do that on purpose sometimes just to piss her off...

ratiocination

I just did my SAT II Writing test recently, and I was faced with the arduous task of assimilating all my high school grammar notes to deal with all the clauses, subject verb agreement cases, exceptions, the list goes on...

The one thing that I've never been able to handle is the following type of sentence:

"Walking down the staircase drenched in sweat, my bag felt heavy."

English grammer = nightmare

Cryptic

Ticks me off when people write "alot" instead of "a lot"
It's TWO SEPERATE WORDS, PEOPLE!

Also, when people try to spell "lose", and they spell it "loose"
Gah.

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Slavakion

Shouldn't that be "Walking down the staircase, drenched in sweat, my bag felt heavy."
Otherwise the staircase is drenched in sweat.

I hate it when people pluralize everything with an apostrophe. Even a simple word such as "ball" becomes "ball's"!

And I've made a resolution. Whenever I'm not writing something that will be marked for perfect grammar, I'm using the British style of quotes, where punctuation goes outside the quote mark. Makes much more sense.

Leo

My bigge'st pet peeve i's the incorrect u'se of apostrophe's...

trib767

Signs giving "Advanced Notice"
Are these signs of a superior intellect ?

Bauh4us

people who use they're as there, god I hate that!

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Catmandu

I tried searching and this one did not come up. How about the sentence: "that's a whole 'nother subject." Where did "nother" come from?

abscondo

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Baron Opal

"Irregardless"

I turn and look at them and ask just what that word means. The blank looks and mumbling that it means "regardless" are amusing. And, I don't hear it at work nearly as much anymore.

Nazggul

I have to echo the fact that "a lot" is two words. It's probably the only thing I got right in grade school english class.

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cyrnel

Most of my peeves have been shot, kicked, and buried above. I'll happily excavate my favorites for additional abuse:

"An historic"
"I could care less"

Aagh!

Then the "newbie 90's" double plurals: softwares, firmwares, et al.
Mixups: infer/imply, then/than, further/farther, the "there's", the terrible "to's".

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