Grammar mistakes that drive you crazy

[SpoiltMardyCow]

I have two:

He hung himself. Instead of he hanged himself.

It was so fun. Instead it was either "such fun" or "so much fun"

What are your grammar bug bears?

I mean GENUINELY of course

I see this quite often on MN. I don't know if it's a typo that a lot of people make, or if they really do think it's a word, but it's not 'mabey', it's 'maybe'.

Other than that, 'could of' and apostrophes in plurals really bug me.

And 'I text her'.

I changed my hours at work and on the front of my new contract it said:
You're New Contract. It made me cringe!

I work for the nhs, and I die a little bit inside every time I read "GP's will do...." or "We advise GP's"

'ect' instead of 'etc'.

Bring back teaching Latin.

I've had long and painful arguments about the 'text' thing. It must be viewed as a verb, surely? And if so, then it must have declensions. And so, I'm sure, it would go
I text
You text
He texts
etc and in the past tense
I texted
You texted etc. So why do people just use 'text' no matter what the tense? Why do they think that's ok? I find it all most troubling!

Oh - and everything mentioned above.

Give my bloody right tit back Worra!

gramatical errors

Could/would/should of boils my piss.

Not using there/their/they're properly comes a close second.

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grammatical even.

I teach and have a yr 13 tutor group so have been checking UCAS forms. Our school is also linked to a sports course off-site so I can see their forms too. One boy has applied to do a business studies degree and twice in his personal statement has referred to working in small business' when he means businesses. And no one pointed that out to him before sending the form off

So when you hear someone has killed themselves, your concerned about the words people use?

Riiiight.

Pedants comrner is that way -->>> cos posting in the wrong thread topic gets right on my tits.

It's got to be the use of 'of' when it should be 'have'.

I see it on here with increasing regularity.

It's so irritating.

Gotten - 'got' is a word which we don't even need in English, but GOTTEN is just foul.

I once saw a sign on the outside of a stables, which said 'in case of fire, all horses must be gotten out'. Awful

bakeoffcake - your concern, or you're concerned? Not one of each.

My big hate is Youse or You's. or whatever variation of it. You is singular as well as plural and the only You's I know are sheep and they are ewes!
I also hate did/done and see/saw/seen.

Alot

Nobody writes alittle but so many write alot.

Irritating!

Ishoos instead of issues

I'm not wild about failures to write complete sentences and failures to use quotation marks, but they pale into insignificance against people who judge others' grammar when their own is shite.

Could of
Should of
Would of
We was
I were

Using itch instead of scratch drives me crazy
You have an itch you scratch an itch
You do not itch an itch

But I love Chester draws it makes me howl

incorrect overuse of myself

People asking for advise

Use of ect -where does that even come from???

When is dinner at?

Most of the above, plus "Myself" instead of "I" - e.g. Myself and my friend went to the shops ...

Me and DH...
Me and my friend...
Me and DD...

Ahhhhhhh so many OPs start with this. And so many recently!

"Me and DH are getting married" noooooooooo, it's "DH and I are getting married"