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.

Who left the English language in the hands of the people who DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE IT!?

The O.E.D. apparently.

It’s not ‘should of’ it’s ‘should have’!!!

There are people being "defiant" about stuff all over the Internet these days 😂

Has nonplussed had its moment yet? If not, I put in a bid for it, as hearing it wrongly defined as anything other than discomfited and confused causes me to want to set fire to the speaker. The current fashion for it to mean unperturbed, just because some people who didn't know what it meant decided that it MUST mean unperturbed because that's what it sounded like should be cleansed from the face of the earth.

It's like me deciding that 'horse' now means 'cow' and forcing everyone else to agree, even though they all think I'm terminally stupid.

Oh yes, this one for me too.

Can we add pronunciations?

People who pronounce ‘tortoise’ as ‘tor-toys’.

People who pronounce ‘almond’ as ‘al-mond’.

People who don’t know how to pronounce any popular make of champagne.

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"Mischiev-ee-ous". I blame the Shamen.

Not a peeve, but I only just realised it's "another think coming", not "another thing coming".

He's coming off of the computer!

I see "swop" used far more than you might expect. I bought a book written by a teacher about adapting playground games and "swop" was all over the place and I couldn't bring myself to read it.

I love eggcorns though! I have a friend on FB who regularly uses the phrase "the smorning" and another who takes her children "trickle treating" every October. I also saw someone on the hunt for a "mounting bike" this week.

Conversely it's 'out the window' 'out the door' almost as standard.
Poor benighted 'of'.

It can be both these days

Which Champagne? I only drink prosecco 😊

The first one isn’t a mispronunciation. It’s a regional variation, particularly in parts of Scotland. Which makes of champagne have you heard pronounced wrongly? I pronounce it all as ‘fizzy wine.’🤣

Anyone who thinks that’s got another think coming.🤨

No, you're wrong.

Something can be almost unique. By definition, that means it's not unique.

What it can't be is very or quite or pretty unique.

Mangled words such as noone, which I read as noon and wonder what the extra e is doing, and ect which I read as eft which starts me thinking about Ken Livingstone and his fondness of newts. Both very distracting.

I suspect I might be a S&G pedant as I grew up in a family with many dyslexic members and it was drummed into me that I must be sure to write clearly, without errors, so that I didn't make reading any more difficult for them than it already was. I feel a flash of sympathy for them every time I encounter a mistake, so wince my way through SM.

I don't understand why people are so defensive about having S&G mistakes flagged. Everyone who grew up in this country was offered 13 years of education, free at point of use, so should have been taught correct S&G. Surely the taxpayer is not funding teachers who can't use English correctly while they're at work. I find that people whose first language is not English are far more likely to be accurate with their S&G.

Pedants posting in AIBU instead of Pedants' corner to share their pet peeves.

It's no good being a grammar pedant then making basic factual errors.

The BBC is not an entertainment channel.

The BBC is a broadcasting corporation that runs hundreds of radio and TV channels, some of which are entertainment channels

Is someone forcing you to read them?

Come on. It's a lighthearted thread! Do some pedants also take AIBU as seriously as their grammar and spelling?

What do you think?

Well, you clearly do, and you seem to have missed the irony of my original post.

I have peeves of my own related to grammar, spelling and misuse of some words but they've been mentioned plenty of times already.

mmm..what about ‘almost exactly’??

When people talk about the 'immaculate conception' as getting pregnant supernaturally, with no man involved. It actually it refers to a type of Roman Catholic dogma, which claims that Jesus' mother Mary had no sin, and been sinless since her very conception. It has nothing to do with Mary getting pregnant without having sex with a man.