LOL! Alright,I have to agree that in a professional environment it does sound inappropriate.

I hate when people use the word "they" without explaining who they might be.

Like "They did a study which shows..." or "they say that..." (the second one is OK if you're referring to, say, a well known truism, like "they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder", but not if what the person is saying isn't really well known like that). Especially the "they" in the context of scientific research, as if all scientists are simply a collective body of "study do-ers", who can be referred to in the collective.

I have a friend who ends every conversation with "cheers". I guess it is something of a signature for her, but its really awkward...do you say "cheers" back? Do you just nod? Do you respond to "cheers" with goodbye or whatever your typical signoff is?

The reason that conventional greetings were invented is so everyone had an idea of how to respond to everyone else. Not adhering makes it really difficult for people to respond, and makes the whole thing awkward.

:lol3: I remember an old boyfriend of mine that had a big argument with his mom about THEY. She was telling him what "THEY" say about smoking and he says, "Who are THEY, anyway? You don't even know who THEY are! So, you'll take the word of THEY over the word of your own son?" It was funny...he was just giving her a hard time, really. They were cute that way.

Another pet peeve is guys who call everyone 'Bra' instead of 'Bro'...instead of 'Brother'...instead of, say, 'Dude'...instead of 'Buddy'...instead of the person's real name. You get my drift...

Also...and this is said here a LOT...when someone is giving a point of view and then instead of saying, "On the other hand," or something, they say, "That being said," Drives me nuts and makes me think of Paula Abdul.

I HATE when people say "I seen" instead of "I saw".

And this is odd but there are a few words I just don't like the sound of....Scrumptious, Plethora,Panties.

Weird, I know but I have a whole list! LOL

your and you're is another one


I'm sure I do it sometimes, but the nerd in me goes nuts when I see it.:dizzy:

What about when people say they're getting their "Hairs cut"?

Oh NO!! :lol3:

You all have already mentioned several of my pet peeves. Another one is a pronunciation error that people make that really bothers me. I work for a library system and so many people pronounce it "li-berry", including some staff. That drives me crazy!

The wife here - who also happens to be a 6th grade language arts teacher-

My pet peeve is having 6th graders who still can't begin a sentence with a capital letter or end it with a period! :dizzy: :dizzy:

Gary drives me nuts with his double-negatives. It's like nails on a chalkboard for me. :sp: :sp:

What else??!!! - people who don't know the difference between their, there, and they're, OR know, no, and now, OR people who use cuz or cause for the word because

A new thing is not pronouncing the letter "T". You would not believe the way my students (and nephew) say the word "Kitten" or "written". They completely drop the "T" sound - "ki -en" or "wri-en". People have become lazy speakers and writers.

I could go on forever, but I better get off my soap box and cook dinner. I think I have seen just about everything over the past 22 years in the classroom. :eek: :eek: :eek:

Sadly, this is not so new ;)

My mom drilled it into me as a child growing up in the 70s in western Massachusetts to ALWAYS pronounce the T in words like "mountain" - otherwise, she told me I'd sound like some "ignorant hick" ;) Yeah, she definitely has strong opinions on speaking. But the reason I got the mom smackdown was because I was learning it from my classmates in grade school...

Thank God she was never a teacher, the classroom would be full of bald kids with muscle tics :lol:

So, in light of that lesson burned into my brain, I always inwardly twitch when my (ahem) team leader at work drops her T's... or says things like "I didn't get no notice of that" or "They don't got none." :bomb:

That was certainly not the case in my school. My teachers all took points off for misspellings in final drafts. My English teachers, I should say; my history and Russian teachers were a bit more lax. ;) (Yes, I wrote reports in Russian class, in English; we had to write one book report a semester.)

There is quite a discussion going on at another message board I belong to over the use of breastfeeding vs nursing. Apparently several women dislike the term breastfeeding because they feel it doesn't accurately describe the whole nursing relationship. The British & Australian mamas, meanwhile, dislike the term "nursing" because in their countries it just means cuddling. (For myself, I prefer breastfeeding because it's more specific.) I can understand disliking the term "feed" as in "How many feeds has the baby had today?", because we typically use feed for animals and eat for people, but I don't comprehend the dislike of the term breastfeed.

The other one that gets me, and I see it a lot on one particular board, is the term "discrete" instead of "discreet." I don't believe it to be a typo as much as a misspelling of discreet. It makes a person look distinctly uneducated, as if they don't know that discrete is a, well, discrete word.

The other thing which annoys me, and I've been seeing it a lot in the media lately, is the use of plural verbs for collective nouns. This is correct usage in Britain, but not in America. At best, it is pretentious. It sounds odd to say "all politics is local", but that is the correct terminology.

I worked for a company that expected us to say Cheers after each phone call. On an average of 80 calls per day I admit that saying cheers became a habit that I used outside of work.

See! now I'm wondering if anyone else here noticed the error. LOL

Li-berry? Is that anything like nuke-ya-ler? :D

It was the case in my school... I didn't even learn what adjectives, verbs, and nouns were until I started studying German!

My peeves are the standard they're, there, their and to, too, two... my husband says "gots" which drives me nuts and "gimmie-it" annoys me too.

Spelling errors really get on my nerves, and to tell you all the truth, if someone posts something on here and can't get the subject right I won't even look at it. lose weight. Arg!

The biggest offender is my MIL who just refuses to properly conjugate!!! "I going to store" "I go to store" sometimes all I'll get from her is "I store" It makes me want to cry. I have had to send her emails back to her asking her to retype it into something that I can understand. So frustrating.

Oh! and there is this woman I work with who notes people's accounts "Speaked with member" she speaked with them! Arg!

Did you spoke with her about this? :D

I gots to do it, and um stuff...


Actually, as a joke sometimes we use "umstuff" like what do you want for dinner? "umstuff" what are you doing? "umstuff" hehehehe.

When people say that they've "dethawed" something? You mean freezing it again? There's no "de" in there anywhere.

It really gets to me when I hear the term "boughten". You haven't just gone out and "boughten" something, you just BOUGHT it.

People spelling "weird" as "wierd". Capitalizing "Internet" is sooo lame, too. I know that it's correct (when referencing things at a University level) but it feels soooo silly.

"Wallah" (and other related misspellings) instead of voila.

hehe. we used to get people calling our hardware store asking for something to unthaw pipes.. dad would always tell them to leave them alone and they'd do it on their own. :)

Also very common where I grew up "ammons" in place of almonds.

I guess that might be so in common speech, but in formal writing and journalism, the word is a definite no-no according to the AP Stylebook, which every journalist should adhere to, but sadly, many don't...

I found a link too... Basically saying that towards may not be incorrect, but "toward" is more formal but also interchangible..

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/ag..._01.html#three

I'll just stick to what the AP guide says.. :lol:

Good catch!

OH.. One I forgot earlier.. When people pronounce often like "off-ten" instead of "offen".. Like nails on a chalkboard... Especially my friends in the media and PR..

Excessive use of " " rabbit ears.

eg. We have recently opened a branch "in the north"...

And, on a Karate Website that I will now stop looking at, "Do you feel you should try to LOSE WEIGHT and get a little fitter after the onslaught of Christmas eating. If you don't fancy facing the "heavy weights" or the "fast aerobic classes" at your local gym, you "will" lose weight and get a lot fitter in one of our "step-by-step beginners exercise classes" or "get back to karate classes" which are small and taken at a slow pace, starting in January."

I "will" lose weight "will" I? :mad:

Or how about when people add an R to the ends of a word, as in PIZZER (pizza)?

:rofl: See, you're not alone! There is a whole tribe of people you come from! ;) (she really is a bright, sweet woman, who is a great manager, but lord, the grammar!)

This is also a HUGE one for me...I mean, how hard of a word is this to pronounce? An AXE is something you chop down a tree with-geez.


You don't know how often, as a moderator here, I want to edit this out of gads of posts here. :lol:


Okay-here is another one. I HATE it when people put letters in words that don't belong there, like saying WARSH instead of WASH. "We have to go WARSH the clothes". :mad: AAAHHH!

Another one, a REALLY big one, and this is probably only because I live in Indiana, is when people pronounce the word MUSKMELON (a cousin of the cantalaupe, for those who are unfamiliar with the word) MUSHmelon instead. It is really common around here with older people. It drives me INSANE.

One of my buddies always want to put on his turn "single" and show me "pitchers" of his family.

My DH says "unthaw" rather than thaw, which drives me crazy!

Also, when he speaks to me he has an irritating habit of saying "looka here" at the beginning of each sentence. My response to this is, "I don't have to LOOK at you to HEAR what you are saying to me!"

Oh! I just thought of another one!

My SIL says "I done done it."

Oh this one grates me...In Ireland, 17th of March is St Patricks day (or it can be called Paddy's day). It is not St Patty's day.

Here is one...might could...used together as in, "I might could go to the store." I've moved around a lot and tend to pick up the phrases of the area. I've pretty much accepted the use of "fixing to" in everyday language around here, but might could still bugs me.

I am relieved to find that I am not alone in having many word peeves! Here is another that may sound picky to some, but I have worked in analytical chemistry almost all my adult life, so it really irks me to hear people get their elements mixed up. It's aluminum foil, not tin foil!! I sent a copy of the periodic table of the elements to the Food Network because I heard Paula Deen say "tin foil."

"Y'all, I offer my most sincere apologies on behalf of the Food Netowrk to Ms. Spinymouse for my error in using the term Tin in place of aluminum" .....

This reminded me of a huge word peeve I have. I love the restaurant, Chipotle, and can't stand it when people pronounce the word: chipolte. ahhh!

I used to live with someone who instead of the word "discombobulated," would say "miscombobulated." That drove me insane.

I always have a marker in my purse to fix bad spelling and grammar. When I was still in school and working as a waitress, people would always laugh at how I marked up management's posted memos. I think something just goes off in my brain when I see awful writing and I feel the need to crusade against it. The other day, my gym had a sign that said "ITS TIME FOR A PERSONAL TRAINER" and I put in the apostrophe. I'm a nut. But come on, it's a national chain of gyms, and it should bloody well check its signage before sending it all out to be displayed everywhere.

Another thing that drives me insane is when adults baby-talk. A lot of women do this. There is one woman I work with who always asks me if I want to go get some "din-dins". I mean, for God's sake.

We have some Pubic Liberries that have ALMOST made that mistake. I've always had a fear of typing that and not realizing it until too late.

My grandmother always used to say tin foil, and occasionally I'll say it also. I have to catch myself ahead of time. She also used to pronouce lasagna as "cassandra". Lasagna wasn't something she had until late in life, and it always makes me smile to think of her and lasagna.

THINGY!

:tantrum: :censored: :bomb: :tape:

It annoys me :lol:

:rofl: I use that a lot! Even in emails! I'll be sure not to use that thingy here. LOL!

Another one I thought of, this is more a pronounciation error: ambalance instead of ambulance.

I've had patients who relate a history of ammonia.
One told me that, after he and his wife had had enough children, he'd had a bisectomy.