Oooh you pedants are going to love this!

[Smitff]

www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/05/the-35-words-youre-probably-getting-wrong

I read the article all by mine own.

harderandharder2breathe, yes. How I wish people wouldn't do this.

Misplaced apostrophes are as bad as no apostrophe at all. But nothing will ever compare to the twitch that loose/lose gives me.

'Dove' with a long 'oo' like 'Dover' as in 'She dove into the pool'. I just can't get my head around it, but it does sound better than 'dived'.

Ah, the last entry

Less stuff, fewer things. It's not hard.

Stripey - ensure/insure misuse drives me insane. Nobody ever seems to get it right (shakes my head in sorrow)

If a waiter ever tells me something is panfried, I have to repeat it while doing jazz hands in time with the pan. Because we should all be grateful when they specify the utensil they use to fry things in.

Please say you do this in your head

Mind you we had a debate, with google, in the office about the use of passed and past - in the context of "the lorry passed the entrance".

Turns out you can use both types in different contexts - who knew?

I do clench my teeth at brought for bought, and "shew" for showed - which is common around my area.

Jamp is used here in Fife but agree it sounds ugly

Yep, decimate is one that really bothers me!

Jamp?

Much less or much lesser for fewer.

My friend was convinced that 'squoze' was the past tense of squeeze!

Sort of makes sense!

What's wrong with pan fried? The two times in my life I've ordered skate wing, visualising a subtle healthy treat perhaps with a hint of black butter or capers, and it actually came deep fried in batter I wished profoundly that I'd looked for the specification of "pan fried" on the menu.

Women instead of woman. Seeing it so often now. MN a few days ago "I'm the other women".

I'm gutted that incident/incidence/incidents isn't on the list because a huge number of people don't seem to understand the difference between them and it drives me crazy!

I'm not dismayed by 'pan fried'. They use this to distinguish from 'deep fried'. Is that not helpful? Or am I missing something?
'Less/fewer' drives me mad though. Saying 'is' when it should be 'are' is very annoying.

"What's your name called?" annoys me. Pick which version of the question you are asking and stick to it!

In a much more particular context, I am researching Parlimentary Inclosure, which would now be written as Enclosure, and constantly dither over whether I should use "correct" English inaccurately or look like I can't spell.

People who say invite instead of invitation.

Can you borrow me a fiver?

And people who use defiantly instead of definitely.

And English people using American spellings (Labor for Labour' and words (trash for rubbish).

I'm not dismayed by 'pan fried'. They use this to distinguish from 'deep fried'.

But that is 'shallow fry', any type of frying surely involves a pan?

My own manager, a highly educated woman: We met yesterday and what come out of that meeting was this . . .

And in instructions to counsel: A discreet point of law arises.

Pan fried just adds £££s to the price usually, or extra ponce to M/Chef contestants' offerings.

Our local cafe sells baked potato's. Another shop has a help for hero's flag on the wall outside. !!

Also very common: "I am sat here". No you are not, you are sitting. Just stop it.

Also on here, I posted something and another poster quoted me, and changed the punctuation I had used. And they. were. WRONG. I was brave and said nothing (well, I said plenty) but it really did rile me.

There's a notice in our school library about pupils loaning the books. I have restrained myself, though with internal screams, from pointing out that it's the library that does the lending, not the pupils...