Oooh you pedants are going to love this!

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

Ohh that makes me want to scratch my eyeballs out! People at work do it sometimes and it drives me bonkers!!
They also always spell stationery wrong

Sooo many annoying ones! I've only come across 'tret' and 'led' since moving up north a few years ago. I rather like it. It's funny how something that feels more like a regional variation is often more appealing (or at least tolerable) than other similar lapses, which are seen as infuriating mistakes!

Another thread has reminded me of the misuse of 'gender' to mean 'sex'.

And there's the use of 'off' to mean 'from', as in 'I got a brilliant present off my aunt for my birthday'. it sounds quite literally grabby - as if the speaker goes round snatching gifts out of people's hands. That said, I do wonder whether it's regional and actually comes via 'of'?

Then there's "off of".

MIL used to say "the thing is this much" - I don't know whether it was personal to her but when I heard DS say it I told him "we don't say that" and warned her off ever saying it again with him around - and for once she took heed which suggested that she knew it was wrong.

I saw something on FB about a group from the 80's who were rapping and people were discussing the music video and one person wrote, "I love the video, I love seeing people wrap"

People who say 'I literally died'- unless you're speaking from the other side, you didn't.

Momentarily makes my teeth itch but I think it's considered to mean 'in a moment' in USA rather than 'for a moment' which is what it means here.

I would of etc.

(Have just seen an OP where this has been used by someone who claims to have been to university...!!)

My pet peeve is when schools get it wrong. I couldn't bear it when ours sent home a spelling book with "spelling practise" written on it and had to write a note to complain and explain it should be practice as it's a noun. They didn't change it, just deleted the word practise on the next print run of the books. Like they didn't really know whether I was right or not. grrr

Jamp and tret are common in the far north of Scotland.

Already mentioned, but 'could of' and 'should of' make me very angry....

'Enquiry' and 'Inquiry' are also completely different and often misused.

I've been saying 'I'm sat here/stood here' since I could talk! I never knew that I sounded like a knob

Hopefully as in Hopefully they'll be here soon.

The result of German influence on American English because in German Hoffentlich means that.

bonbonours yep, schools obviously don't like being corrected. On the local school website, they had written 'advise', rather than 'advice'. I had to email them about something unrelated, and whilst I was at it I pointed this out. They never thanked me, but the website was changed!

It's not exactly pedantry but when people say "They had a meeting with myself"

ME. You mean ME. Myself doesn't make you sound more important, it makes you sound like a twat!

Without a doubt one of the most common ones written and spoken incorrectly are 'should of' and 'could of' instead of 'should have' and 'could have'.

It's becoming so common that almost every second post on MN has someone writing these incorrectly.

Bring vs take drives me mad!

Your vs You're.

Some people seem to think they're interchangeable.

Have we had "I text her last week." or "I opened the chest of draws." yet?

What's the worst? I'm torn between 'should of'/'would of'/ 'could of' and the use of an apostrophe before an 's' to designate a plural.
I often wonder what thought process goes into deciding whether or not to lob in an apostrophe, because invariably this will be inconsistent.
There does seem to be a cohort that likes to use an apostrophe after a vowel; you tend to see "radio's" [sic] more often than "dog's"[sic]. However, one horror that's regularly seen on MN is the pluralisation of "mum" to "mum's" which is just so ignorant that, once I've seen it, I lose interest in the dilemma at hand.

I was sat/stood really grates on me. As does incorrect use of me and I. The rule is when deciding between "Johnny and I" or "Johnny and me", remove Johnny from the equation. Johnny and I go to town but you can come with Johnny and me.

I use myself and yourself all the time. It's only on mn that I realised it was considered pretentious. But then, I'm irish so phrases like "is it yourself that's in it then?" sounds like a perfectly reasonable way of saying hello to someone you haven't seen in a while.

I have repeated "jamp off the wall" so many times in an effort to understand it, that it is starting to sound normal. Is this how stupid new words get into the OED?

Shame about the comma splice in the intro...

Bought and brought.