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.

I once worked with a lady who pronounced plastic as “plarstic”. Far from annoying me I was secretly jealous she could carry it off so well and I loved it.

'I seen' 😡

Both Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries

I have noticed this as well, but maybe it's a speech to text issue.

That's a definite "tell" for Ai.

Using American Style Caps for Headlines Like This

Yuck.

People who criticise others' "grammar" when actually they're taking about spelling or pronunciation.

People who criticise others' pronunciation but spell (or pronounce) it "pronounciation."

People who criticise others' grammar but spell it "grammer."

I was well into adulthood before I knew either of those!

Once it’s got into English dictionaries as schadenfreude has, then it’s presumably officially adopted.
But it’s truly part of English if we’ve changed it. An example is ‘panini’ which is now the English word for what the Italians call a ‘panino’.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/panini

My phone likes to change its to it’s.

It also likes to change ill to I’ll.

And some other things, including swapping if and of for me at times. Super annoying!

Thank you,I have been confused by this.

I watched a YouTube piece by one of my favourite presenters on a subject very close to my heart. The presenter seems to be well-spoken and well educated and is very erudite on the subject.

And then she pronounced stoicism as 'stoyk-ism'. I wonder if she's just never heard the word 'stoic' said out loud? (For the removal of any doubt, I would pronounce it stow-i-sism. As in the act of being stow-ic.) Or is it me that's wrong?

Momentarily has a less rigid definition in American English, it can mean shortly or for a brief period of time. Most of the time the context would make it clear but the distinction is more important when in flight ✈️

Is that what you would say? I think I would say ‘I had some’.

Getting underestimated and overestimated mixed up. Not knowing the difference between uninterested and disinterested.

You are correct!

And then she pronounced stoicism as 'stoyk-ism'. I wonder if she's just never heard the word 'stoic' said out loud.

When I was a child I always wondered about that delicious food children had in books that I read as ‘meringoos’.

Most of mine are already upthread but I hate "watch back", any kind of management bollocks and "shop the collection" - that just sounds wrong, but am I correct in thinking that "shop" isn't a verb? I always say "go shopping" and think of "go" as the verb. Have I been wrong all these years?
Those objecting to "needs done" it's a perfectly acceptable Scots usage.
Finally a gem I saw this morning "I was surpost" meaning "supposed".

It's not an uncommon expression. 🙄

grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/07/cut-and-dried.html#:~:text=The%20phrasal%20adjective%20is%20figurative,%2C%20“with%20growing%20herbs.”

People who sat they are renting a house when they mean letting a house. These two terms are opposites not equivalentss.

Indeed. that's why there is no such word as "disinteresting".

It doesn't mean you find it boring; it means you have no skin in the game - nothing to gain or lose. This one annoys me too.

Thank you. Saved me saying it lol

For me it’s double negatives. eg:
“I ain’t doing nothing!”
Also missing or incorrect apostrophes.
Your (when it’s a compression) for example instead of you’re.
I never correct people though, and it’s not a big deal I suppose. We unfortunately have bigger problems to worry about…..!

Yes, it’s cut and dried, not cut and dry.

I've attached a screenshot of an exchange I had on another thread earlier. I can't remember what the response to me was, but it was along the lines of "fuck off you weirdo" 😂

I don't really mind that in colloquial speech, as it gives emphasis, just as "have had" rolls off the tongue and underlines the point.

Not sure if I've got this right, but I remember hearing that in Jamaica words are repeated for emphasis, like "one one" to mean "just one"