‘When we was...’ and other grammar faux pas that grind your gears

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Exactly this - does anyone else have any other grammar errors that they see regularly that make their teeth itch?

I am, by a far stretch, an English language enthusiast, but seeing ‘we was’ in a sentence makes me squirm!

Using “I” when you are the object of the sentence like “he gave the tickets to DH and I” or pics on FB that say “my babies and I”. Grr.

Getting brought and bought mixed up. Does my head in.
"Has anyone brought x vacuum cleaner?"...brought it where?

Not a grammar issue, but I’m not keen on the phrase ‘makes my teeth itch’. It seems a common one on MN at the moment. How can it make your teeth itch? I didn’t believe that was physically possible.

People who misuse apostrophes and write word's like thi's. I knew someone who I really, really hate who did it so I associate it with her. Same for 'you was', because I associate it with a number of people I hate.

Also, incorrect use of 'myself'. One of the doctors in my last job did it all the time and it drove me spare.

Should of instead of should have.

A thread heading prompted me to post

I agree that 'makes my teeth itch' really gets on my nerves.

But on the whole as long as I can understand what is being said I don't care much.

Not a grammar issue, but I’m not keen on the phrase ‘makes my teeth itch’. It seems a common one on MN at the moment. How can it make your teeth itch? I didn’t believe that was physically possible.

That's the point - it's so egregiously bad that it makes an unitchable part of your body cringe in annoyance.

I find it quite expressive!

What makes my teeth itch is pedantry over less and fewer. Both mean a smaller quantity of whatever is being referenced. It was something of an invented rule to make one numeric and one volume, but no one in the history of the universe has ever been confused by what is meant by using them interchangeably.

misleading words like "pennies" meaning money/ coins, not low value coins that drive me round the bend

When I was teaching about money in Reception I used to put out requests to parents not to do this as it was so confusing for the children.

'Grates my carrot' I quite like this. Makes as much sense as itchy teeth though.
Don't like 'boils my piss' much either.