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?

Regarding 'hung, drawn and quartered' the hung is correct because it's not reflexive?

Innit?

The misuse of less and fewer drives me up the wall. Less is used with singular nouns and fewer with plural- "less money means fewer teachers" for example.

Wandering instead of wondering.
Comma splices.
Overuse of capital letters.
Can I lend something.

ptumi I think gotten IS a word in English, taken to the USA by the settlers, and now making its way back across the Atlantic!

Eg: ill-gotten gains?

I agree it's awful in your example. But I don't like got, either, in that context. There must be a better way of saying it(but can't think of one atm..)

He fell over and hurt he's leg.

It's His. I feel like screaming every time I see it (which is a lot).

Using imply and infer incorrectly.

absolutely - 'in case of fire, the horses must be evacuated?' Or 'rescued'?

'Could/should/would of' is so prevalent now. It makes me want to scream - English is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn. It will not be long before the people you hear speaking good English - are the foreigners, because they are taught correct English grammar. It doesn't help that in some dialects it is perfectly OK to say 'we was' and 'he were'. Saying words in that grammatically incorrect order in, say, German would mean the listener would not know what the hell you are talking about. (Or who)

Words can be put in any old order, in English, with any old grammar, and you will still (probably) be understood. My MIL (Turkish) still says (after 55 years here) ' The things, how they are?'. She means 'How are things?'

People who write definately instead of definitely....or even worse, defiantly. No. just NO.

Using "myself" as in , could you call myself on....?
The word "diariase"
Could of, instead of could have.
I seen, instead of I saw
I have went, instead of I have gone or I went
Misuse of apostrophes. A business application I read last week had the line " as busy working mum's we understand our client's"
which pissed me off for lots of reasons. They were a marketing company ffs!!!!

Not really a grammar one, but:

People who pronounce "lieutenant" as "loo-tenant" when referring to the British forces. In the UK, it's "leff-tenant". Loo-tenant is what you call American servicemen and women.

Argh.

I mean, I know it's totally illogical (the word doesn't have any Fs in it), but still.

People who don't know how to use "whom" correctly, and even worse, think they're being impressive by using it instead of "who", which is what they should have said in the first place. e.g.

"I am a person whom is a bit clueless."

"I am somebody whom doesn't know how to use the bloody word properly."

Count yourself lucky it has never happened in your family and you only have to worry how it is said.

Regularly on Masterchef - "We want you to produce a meal for John and I"

People who pronounce H as haitch

Loads of the above. Also are instead of our seems to be quite a new thing but unfortunately it is becoming more common.

Ooh, ooh, and I got told off by someone once for using the phrase "for free". Apparently, you can have something "free of charge" or you can have something "for nothing" but not "for free".

Since, then, I've been self-conscious about saying "for free", even though it seems to be generally accepted usage.

When it still happened it was hanged, drawn and quartered.

bakeoff, surely you mean Pedants' Corner, with an apostrophe?

There is something I've noticed on MN and I've been wondering if it's a contraction/ellipsis or dialect-related and that's needs+past participle when it should be needs to be +past participle.

I'm pretty relaxed about mistakes on here because I probably make loads myself and I know that lots of people write quickly and cba to check too much.

But, I see tumble drier instead of dryer all the time.

Can you learn me this?

No - I can teach you something but you need to be the one who is learning it.

Maybe it's regional?

I sometimes wonder if anyone actually reads anything. I can understand typos (maybe he's a genuine typo for his); I can kind of understand incorrect use of apostrophes, and I can even live with a comma splice at a stretch but:

Chester Draws?
Could of/ would of?
Loose (for lose)?
Haitch?
Are for Our?

On what planet do these people live?

Me too "myself, myself,myself" what on earth is wrong with "me"
I've noticed more "yourself" too.

katman the learn/teach thing happens in South Wales, possibly due to the fact that the word is the same in Welsh.

Still no excuse though!

less money means fewer teachers" for example

What's wrong with that?

Less - well money is infinite and technically "not countable" - as it is continuous. You can have decimals of money if you really want. There was a guy who syphoned off the decimals in a finance firm and made lots of money.

Fewer teachers - teachers are countable.

Less is used with singular nouns and fewer with plural

I thought less was used when the noun can't be counted - so it's continuous but fewer was when the noun can be counted.

(continuous and discrete variables)

I just saw one that drives me nuts on another thread.

"Greatful" instead of "grateful".