Grammar Pet Peeves

[Lord Voldemort]

I just heard 'I runned'
It made me laugh so I RAN here to tell you all!

 

[ChampagneBox]

Not grammar but spelling…

mornjaro
mournjaro
mountjaro
monjaro

 

[emm]

I work in the education sector and today a colleague wrote to me using "your" instead of "you're"

 

[TapToBoreMeRigid]

When I was at school I wrote about my Granddad and how he liked listening to the radio. I put, "wahless", instead of, "wireless", because that's how my Londoner Granddad said it. Being corrected in front of the class means I now check almost everything prior to writing it

I have a friend and she says she's sitting IN the settee instead of on it. I bite my lip.

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

Just saw this on Mumsnet. "When he ended the relationship I was completely flawed."

flawed?! maybe that's why he ended the relationship!

 

[HiyaCath!]

I'm sure this must have been mention before, but I absolutely hate when people say "I could care less", instead of "I couldn't care less". It makes me irrationally angry.

 

[wordzalad]

When people say “I brought this dress from Asda” when they mean they purchased. If you’re bringing it somewhere, it’s brought. If you purchased it, It’s bought.

I’m fairly patient with some of the mistakes as I’m dyslexic so make a few myself but whenever I read that my brain just reads it and I think “you brought the dress to where”… for about two minutes before I’m like ohhhb

 

[freshhead]

My sister told me she was having a ‘spag bowel’ one night. Never fails to make me laugh

 

[emm]

I LOVE this thread, I teach English as a foreign language (as a British native) and EVERYTHING here is amazing

 

[bubbadabut]

People who leave a space between punctuation !

Why? A guy I used to work with did it constantly....I'm not sure if it was to wind me up?

Also, people who litter their texts with needless exclamation marks, thereby lessening its impact. Or those who use it excessively, like this!!!!!!!!

 

[bubbadabut]

How come........

What, no question mark? Even worse!

 

[witchofwestbyfleet]

What!! Sentences don’t always make sense without the Oxford comma. It’s neeeeded

I like your passion for it

 

[lemonlime]

I second everything written here, don't think I have anything new to add. It's unreasonably irritating to me. I know it's just a grammar mistake and I look past it on casual places like forums etc. but I see this stuff in work emails too and I just want to reply and say fix your text for fuck's sake.

I feel like I shouldn't be pedantic about this as English isn't my first language but it still gets on my nerves. They're/their/there is grating, but not nearly as grating as the bloody should of/could of/would of.

 

[bubbadabut]

People who get their lending and borrowing mixed up. "Can I lend a pen?"/"Can you borrow me a pen?"

Also when people say "That'll learn him/her/you".

"Tonite". Even worse..."To-nite".

 

[Loubywoobywoo]

Also, people not knowing when to use less or fewer! Drives me insane and it’s not a hard rule to understand!

 

[or JusRollWithIt]

Again, not grammar per se but rogue apostrophes strike again. The comment!

 

[Pawpaw365]

Ir

Have to disagree For me, there's no ambiguity in that sentence at all. Most people would understand that you mean four different types of animals. The "and" is suffice, so no need for the Oxford comma.

irs not the ambiguity. It’s the fact that if you take a breath in the places where the commas are, it doesn’t flow very well if you get to the last bit of the sentence and have to say ‘blah and blah’. Like the sentence speeds up and doesn’t fit with the rest of the sentence. If you said that sentence out loud you would say, dogs.., cats… hamsters… and gerbils. As opposed to, dogs… cats…. Hamsters and gerbils. I dunno, I just think it sounds super clunky without the Oxford comma!

 

[1001 others]

I feel like I'm in some sort of parallel universe with this one ...

"Fitted" is a word!
(E.g., "The men will be required to get their suits fitted" - NOT "The men will be required to get their suits fit.").

I've had several arguments with someone about this lately (they're American; I'm Kiwi). They are adamant that 'fitted' it is not a word. It is an Americanism that you write 'fit' in place of 'fitted'; however as it is a Kiwi-authored paper it's bloody staying!

The same person keeps challenging me on using 'off of' together in a sentence - again, it's an Americanism and it's incorrect!
(E.g., "Get off of the grass" when it should be "Get off the grass").

A posh lady I know pronounces a sharp T sound like SH- whash was thash?

Does she have dentures? A lady I know does the same and has them.

 

[TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo]

I once went up to a blackboard menu in a pub and wiped out all of the dodgy apostrophes.

I think I love you.

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

How funny!
Slate other people's grammar/spelling by getting it wrong yourself! It's usually something that I do.

Honestly, I had to re-read my comment about 10 times before I hit 'post'. There's nothing worse!

i'm genuinely so embarrassed! mistakes like that usually stand out at me and i notice them immediately - i definitely would have if it had been a comment written by someone else - but i was far more focused on capitalising the letters and didn't notice. of all the places to make a grammatical error!

At least you do know the difference, I am waiting for the day when I see someone that doesn't know the difference between the number and too or to

i can't remember the context, but i have actually seen someone use "two" instead of "too"...!