Grammar Pet Peeves

[MaineCoonMama]

Online wooing "Your hot babe"

I'd ask "My hot babe what?" because I'm an arsehole.

 

[ClockworkDolly]

This might already have been mentioned, but the use of ‘his’ instead of ‘he’s’

‘His had his breakfast’

I follow someone on insta who does this constantly, in fact all her grammar is terrible, it drives me insane!

I do see this a fair bit on Facebook, it does annoy me. Facebook is full of the illiterati.

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before...however when people say "pacifically" instead of "specifically" it really gets on my bloody nerves! It makes me want to SCREAM!

I've noticed how the British language is slowly becoming more Americanised too! There appears to be a cultural shift... Could this be down to Tik Tok culture?
When you overhear the following in conversation:

Literally
Same
Same Same!
Totally
What the actual?
Are you kidding me?

It's almost as though people are becoming lazy with their language?

It irritates me when American spellings become normalised in the UK - like, when I was a kid, the word "yoghurt" was spelled yogHurt, with an H. yet that spelling has become totally phased out, and replaced with the American spelling - "yogurt". yoghurts in British supermarkets, and those produced by UK manufacturers, are. now labelled as "yogurt", but I swear it was a very slow transition - between the 90s to the mid 2000s, it slowly changed until the spelling "yogurt" became more standardised, and has now seemingly become the norm, with "yoghurt" becoming an obsolete term. I can't think of any other examples, but I imagine there are other British words where the spelling has transitioned to the American version, without people even necessarily noticing!

 

[LittleMy]

I hAtE iT wHeN pEoPle WrIte LiKe ThIs ToO. tAkEs So LoNg!

Like a ransom note.

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

I’m certainly no grammar queen myself, but seen - why do I keep seeing people say ‘I seen this’ or ‘I seen this in the shop’. What?! Do people actually say that? It makes no sense. It’s so annoying and I keep seeing it everywhere!

urgh, i totally agree! it's not about being a grammar expert - it's just basic grammatical knowledge. "i seen this" and "i done that" - just no!

 

[bubbadabut]

When people say "an historic" rather than "a historic". Newsreaders do it all the time. The "h" of historic is pronounced as a consonant sound, so it should be preceded by "a", rather than words like "hour", "honour", "heir", which should be preceded by "an" due to starting with a vowel sound.

 

[Ruby’s mum]

My pet peeves:
Things being described as very unique or really unique or worst of all almost unique. No! It’s just unique, it either is or isn’t.
Stationery/stationary - remember e for envelope, a for arrest.

 

[Boobies]

Not seen on here but on FB the use of the lower case A, pronounced like a, instead of I. For example, 'a went to the shops today' 'a hate it when that happens'.
My grammar isn't the best but that one's taking the pee.

 

[TapToBoreMeRigid]

"He jumped off of the table". The "of" is redundant.

 

[colouredlines]

It's exactly that it's a possessive apostrophe rather than an apostrophe to denote a missing letter


I disagree. If my surname was Smith. And your talking about my house, it's the Smith's house. I.e. the house belonging the the Smith's

If you said "the Smiths house" that would be grammatically incorrect.

Therefore "Christmas at the Smith's" is grammatical correct.

If you lived alone in the house, nobody would say the Smith's house. They would say Jane Smith's house.

If you lived with multiple other Smiths, then it would be the Smiths' house, with the apostrophe after the s to denote possession in plural.

 

[trancejunkie]

Could you lot be more pacific with your pet peeves?

 

[Pawpaw365]

One that really annoys me is when people use too and to in the wrong context primary school level English

Aha I have too many friends that do this and honestly I get infuriated whenever they text me

 

[Sabbie]

stupid question alert - when exactly would you use either of them? I understand generally, that the apostrophe means it belongs to someone or when you miss out a letter, such as won't.

The dog is wagging it’s tail = The dog is wagging it is tail
WRONG

The dog is wagging its tail = The dog is wagging his/her/its tail
RIGHT

It’s raining outside = It is raining outside
RIGHT

Does this make sense to you? I am glad you are asking, because once you understand you won’t forget!

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

It's really sad when educators can't get it right, the children they are teaching don't stand a hope
This is from the website of a school that one of my daughters was looking at for her son.View attachment 1186837

i used to work in a bookshop, and i always remember when a different member of staff stuck a sign in the window which Read "now open on Sunday's" - i was horrified and had to remove it immediately!

also, when i was in primary school, our class teacher taught all the children that the word "friend" is spelled "freind". like, if we spelt it correctly, she'd actively mark it wrong and alter to the wrong spelling! it wasn't until the parents noticed that all the kids in our class were having their homework corrected and all misspelling the word that they realised what was happening, and awkwardly had to highlight her mistake!

 

[Ruby’s mum]

I’ve seen several instances today of another pet peeve: when someone means etcetera but instead of abbreviating it to etc., they write ect. ECT stands for electro convulsive therapy (electric shock treatment) as practiced on some patients with mental health issues.

 

[Pawpaw365]

I came on to this thread just to say this.
It’s infuriating. You didn’t bruy anything so you can’t have brought anything.

But you did ‘brung’ something to the party

 

[lilyannrose]

"I seen" and "on accident" send me into a rage.

 

[Sabbie]

People not knowing when to use “its“ instead of “it’s”.

 

[Miscanthus]

I think I've found my tribe

 

[Gloria Rostron]

Signs outside shops advertising things spelt as:-
Shoe's
Bag's
Coat's

Also, in Yorkshire many people call a packet of crisps a packet of crisp.