to be annoyed at number of people who write

[Sallyingforth]

should of ...
could of ...
would of ...
etc.

The word is have !!!

Yup, I hear you.

YANBU.

YANBU. It makes me irrationally angry.

YANBU. It sets my teeth on edge.

Maybe you shouldn't of started this thread - you might of made it worse ...

YANBU. It is a damning entitlement of our education system. And, I'm a teacher.

Now, is one annoyed at something, or by something? And should one of capitalized the first letter of an OP? Are multiple exclamation marks Not Quite The Done Thing?

Does it matter that much? Why would you feel annoyed about it?

And don't get me started on "ten items or less"!

YANBU. It's almost as bad as pacifically anythink.

One of my students was really confused when I explained the word wasn't "probaly".
Saints preserve me.

Oh, me, too, Dannilion. But My favourite was Supernanny saying something was "unasseptable". Fab.

it annoys me when people start threads to bitch about other people's writing when they dont bother to put all the words required in the title.

pot kettle black

YANBU to "aks"

Star girl, I think the word you were looking for is indictment..

Indeed.

Oh, well spotted, VV - and she's a teacher! Yikes!

LRDtheFeministDragon I think I would have said:

"And should one have capitali s ed"

but I will reluctantly accept the z thing (as long as it's pronounced 'zed')

Nope. Oxford spelling rules allows 'z' in those words. It's from the Greek 'izein' endings of verbs, or so they tell me.

I have to admit I don't give a flying fuck about it, but you might want to know.

*TheChao" it matters because it shows absolutely no understanding of the sort of word being used here. It's actually not just a simple mistake, like a typo. It's quite a deep misunderstanding of how that sort of construction works.

Funnily enough, the 'of' bit was deliberate, though.

I will admit that I probably make many errors, but there is something that really jars. I was sat on the bus. He was stood over there. And so on. It is everywhere! Horrible. It just sounds so wrong.
My DH has been ranting about something else.
So, he has noticed that people are starting to begin conversations, emails and reviews etc with 'so'-see above. It is driving him crazy when he is sitting at his desk in work.

I don't see how it's a deeper misunderstanding than anything much else, really.

Sure, it's someone who thinks you form that tense with 'of' instead of 'have', but so what?

I get itchy when people start sentences with "And" or "But".

I may just be showing my age though, it appears to be perfectly acceptable now.

It makes me not want to post when there are people like you around Op.
My grammar is poor, as was my education, but i try, I might not always get things right but coming out with your red fucking pens to put everyone's mistakes right pisses me right off.

The z thing is annoying. I am responsible for all the written output in my firm. We enforced the UK English dictionary in all our templates so that any word like "nationalized" would come up as a misspelling. Not because it is wrong per se (although I prefer the s spelling) but because we wanted consistent use and we'd settled on "nationalised". Then they bloody well went and put the Z spelling in all the dictionaries - so now people use the s and the z willy nilly and I can't find any way to enforce a single rule.