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.