AS. IF!!!Not exactly grammar but…DOMANOSE
AS. IF!!!Not exactly grammar but…DOMANOSE
And not a single comma or full stop!!!AS. IF!!!
Xmas is such an ugly word. And don't get me started on Crimbo!When people type Xmas instead of Christmas oh it drives me insane
These first ones ughYour / you’re
There / their / they’re
Where / were
But my biggest one
Random CaPiTAlisation. Not just the random letters, but also incorrect capitalisation of words.
I'm guilty of doing that. Especially when I'm really angry.Also, people who litter their texts with needless exclamation marks, thereby lessening its impact. Or those who use it excessively, like this!!!!!!!!
Do you like the carrot cake? I made it myself.A genuine question - what IS the correct use of ‘myself’? I hate it being used to sound like a smartarse when ‘me’ or ‘I’ is grammatically appropriate but I can’t think of the correct context to use it?
What a brilliant post! As I was reading through your list I thought "I bet they'll have missed at least one of my pet peeves", but I'm pretty sure you've said them all.Ah, I just stumbled across this thread! It's the perfect thread for me!
I cannot cope when people muddle these words up:
there/their/they're
your/you're
to/too/two
it's/its
done/did
lose/loose
affect/effect
expect/accept
were/we're
where/were
then/than
bought/brought
dessert/desert
advice/advise
ensure/insure
quiet/quite
chose/choose
of/off
stationery/stationary
who's/whose
Should of/could of/would of.
When Arctic is misspelled as Artic.
I hate the misuse of apostrophes - Sunday's instead of Sundays or DVD's instead of DVDs - and when people refuse to use commas, or dramatically overuse full stops.
I also internally cringe when I hear "something" pronounced as "somethink", "unacceptable" as "unasseptable" or "ask" pronounced as "axe" and "espresso" as "expresso".
And I appreciate it's very specific, but it also irks me when people misspell broccoli!
specific and pacific are the WORST. equally, when people say supposably instead of supposedly.Specific and pacific drives me around the bend. They’re two totally different words, spellings, meanings! My husband says pacific when he means specific just to wind me up.
when I see mom instead of mum in the UK. But maybe this is a regional thing?
Very picky I know.
A genuine question - what IS the correct use of ‘myself’? I hate it being used to sound like a smartarse when ‘me’ or ‘I’ is grammatically appropriate but I can’t think of the correct context to use it?