To hate people who don’t know the difference between is and are.

[mumofanoxonian]

“There is loads of issues”

NO

There ARE

Is= singular
are=plural

It’s not fucking hard!!!!!

I feel the same OP.

I also detest the incorrect use of ‘was’ and ‘were.’

I’m sick of hearing sentences such as: ‘Was you 10 when x happened?’ Also, ‘you was a cute little baby.’ No, no, no!!! It’s ‘were.’ Please use the correct verb structure.

Dh will say things like "and I said xyz" when he means "and I will say xyz"

I will get very confused and question him, "well did you say it or are you going to?". He isn't lying, or being deceitful, he was "just educated in a third world country".

Off topic slightly, but it drives me mad, and this reminded me of that.

Really basic grammatical errors makes my head hurt. It seems to be getting worse too.

This seems the perfect opportunity to ask something that's been bugging me. Why do people say "of an evening" or "of a morning"? Where has this come from? I've only ever seen it on MN but was wondering if this is a modern thing, a really old fashioned thing, a MN thing, a south vs north thing, a cultural thing or something else entirely. Every time I read it in think "in the evening" or "in the morning".

I sometimes get it wrong in speech, as funnily enough I hadn't planned out my sentence in advance and sometimes a plural creeps in later and I should have used the plural form earlier in the sentence. If I was writing it down, I'd correct it, but not in speech.

Of an evening has a specifically different meaning to in the evening, implying (neatly, in my view) that it is something you do regularly.

How much do you hate these people? Does it consume your soul? Is you going to go on a murderous rampage?

I teach migrants to speak English. It’s a bit much to feel so strongly about grammar to HATE .
I don’t know any native speakers that make this mistake but I think these people are from a different background to you even if they are native speakers . Maybe they learnt to speak non standard English growing up.

My mum calls Brexit, Brekit as in (Ready) Brek with an 'it'. Now that gets my goat.

This is nowhere near as bad as the people who randomly put apostrophes in plurals.

YIBU

You mean randomly put apostrophe’s in plural’s, don’t you?
When I see such mistakes in shops (eg, recently, Managers Special, Hanging Basket’s) I go to Customer Service and make a complaint. It’s my hobby. Happily I have a thick skin.

Hate? Maybe it's time to get a life?

I fucking hate grammar Nazis

I shudder when I hear less and fewer used incorrectly on the radio! Fair enough in everyday speech but professionals should know better. I tut to myself

O do give over dear. Its irritating but language evolves and changes. Although I do keep a bucket of Ts nearby to throw at my son occasionally to compensate for glottal stops.

You’d hate where I live.

They say next again day instead of the day after tomorrow.

Flamed for this I'll probably be, but I'm a big girl I can take it.

Is using the word "hate" about those who struggle with grammar not a tad disablist some where along the line.
After all dylexia is a disability!

For me, the incorrect pronunciation of controversy on the news grates.

I think ‘of an evening’ is a northern England thing.

I take ‘in the evening’ to mean the same thing.

Hate? Are you sure you hate people for this?

'Of an evening' is northern English and it means you do something regularly - 'I walk the dog of an evening'. I think the English language would be poorer if regional dialect were to die out.

"Some of these kinds of things are dialect. Just because people say them doesn't mean they don't know how to write them/what the grammatical rules are."

True. One of my friends might say "where was you last night?", but she is a copywriter with a degree in English
But I don't like to see it written down, especially on social media platforms like Facebook.

@MsTSwift, less/fewer being incorrectly used is my fingers on blackboard spine curling hate - and I always correct them out loud when I hear it on tv or radio. DH laughs at me but I point out its not rocket science just simple grammar!!

I find the incorrect use of "I" when it should be "me" really annoying. Particularly on TV and read off a scripted autocue or in a scripted drama!!

YANBU at all. My biggest piss boilers are been/being and seen/seeing. It’s as though some people don’t realise they are different words. It does serve as a good warning though, when you see “seen as though” somewhere you know you’re dealing with an utter moron.