To invite the grammar and language pedants to share their pet peeves?

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AIBU to feel annoyed when I see people say Slither instead of sliver? It was even in a book I read recently. A slither of cake. No! That makes no sense, unless the cake’s been trodden into the carpet!

Also see: step foot in instead of set foot in

There’s plenty of others but those will do for now.

There's another variant of that, even when the 'would' is taken out and 'had' put in: 'If we had have eaten earlier...' when it should be 'If we had eaten earlier...'

"A myriad of" drives me crazy.

So "the doctor will be with you momentarily" should mean the doctor will pop into the room for a few seconds. But now more likely infers that the doctor will enter the room and start the appointment soon.

I think momentarily in that sense is an Americanism.

It implies that the doctor will be there soon, from which you infer that you will not have much longer to wait.

I looked this up recently and it's not as cut and dry as you think. I was going to say the same as you but I thought I'd double check first and I was glad I did.

I was waiting for someone to pick that up...

OMG me too!!!! I can’t stand it!!!

But arise is wrong here.

There is "iconize", if you dabble in user interfaces ...

Are people just playing now? Cut and dry?

Very clever 😄 but I still maintain that there are very few real life occasions when one sees either written down correctly or incorrectly that it could be a supposed bug bear of so many people

Indeed it is. "Rouse" is the word needed in that sentence.

I see it all the time on social media. Usually with other errors: "He should of been more discrete about it."

Ha! Everything is uniquely iconic or even iconically unique. Which is Amazing.

Of instead of have.

All of the your/you’re/ there/they’re/their offences.

Grocer’s apostrophes.

Reflexive pronoun abuse. I just saw an OP on here that says ‘told my myself’ 😡

Oh good grief. That's even worse than would.

🤣🤣

Merely proving Muphrys law 😀

And yes, I meant to write "arouse" - possibly distracted by the pet perve poster 😈

No! Unique means only one so there can’t be three of them!!

I'd say "arouse" in that sentence myself personally.

OK, I'm fucking with you now. Of course I wouldn't say I, myself and personally in one sentence. But some would 😣.

Cut and dry????? Surely that’s only in a salon???.

This is such a stupid one but when people pronounce Moulin Rouge “Moulon Rouge”. And also comraderie instead of camaraderie.

It seems quite common now for people to use lead when they mean led.

It's almost as common as people using loose when they mean lose. There's a local weight watchers leader who would often post about her journey loosing weight and asking if you want to loose weight too.

I'm not usually that bothered by these things but I always find these two examples really noticeable.

English has a long, proud tradition of mangling any word that dares to try and smuggle it's way into our pristine tongue. Just ask any passenger what they call someone who carries messages ?

I almost chose black and white. I just looked up cut and dry - I used it correctly but it's actually "cut and dried". I made a mistake, but I won't go making that same mistake over and over and over again!

I might have missed this but has anyone mentioned “restauranteur” for restaurateur?