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'm sure I've described comedy shows as hit and miss. Was that wrong?

Hit and miss mostly miss is exactly how I would describe the Oasis back catalogue.

I'd think twice about correcting anyone now as it seems to becoming rather 'uncool'or somehow posh to use the word 'fewer'. I will correct my DP though! He doesn't mind.

Another one of mine is 'I was sat...' but this seems to be commonplace now and actually more used than 'was sitting ' etc.
My Dad usto to hate it as well, he died 10 years ago and that was when it was not nearly so widespread.. He'd have a fit hearing how much it's used now!

I'm happy with "shopping" but I've always thought of it as "going shopping" where "going" was the verb or "put the shopping away", where shopping was the stuff you'd bought.

Another one of mine is 'I was sat...' but this seems to be commonplace now and actually more used than 'was sitting ' etc.

Commonplace in British English, yes. It's not a feature of American English.

Funny you should mention it as my DP was chatting to a colleague in the US who was baffled by my DP using 'I was sat'or similar. He actually asked him about it!
DP didn't even notice he was saying it!

This! I see it all the time, including in published books! So annoying......

But they're an awful lot more like biscuits than the scone/bun looking American biscuit.

Irregardless

"Athaletes" and "athaletics". "Nukiler" instead of nuclear. These 2 crop up on, and in, mainstream media all the time. It's shocking.
Been and seen used instead of being and seeing. I only began noticing this quite recently. There was a post on AIBU where "his been", meaning both "he is being" and "he has been", was repeated several times and now I'm seeing it a lot.
"Not that big of a deal/problem/thing" is a phrase that doesn't make sense.
Que instead of queue.
Ect instead of etc.
And everything anyone else has mentioned.

Mine is when I see a poster inviting me to try something but missing out the question mark.

”Why not try our delicious pies”

In the long running TV show Juke Box Jury, new pop records were reviewed and panellists voted that they would either be a Hit or a Miss.

So, although you can’t hit and miss a cricket ball, a collection of objects can absolutely be a bit ‘hit and miss’ - of variable quality.

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hit-and-miss

Shop the collection? What, are you aware it’s committed a crime?

It sounds wrong in British English because we still predominantly use ‘to shop’ to mean ‘to buy from a shop’, whereas in US English it’s acquired a meaning more like ‘browse’ - examples in this link.

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

This is very interesting because I've noticed that 'on' seems to get about an awful lot lately:
'Beating up on'
'Watching on'
'Sipping on'
Why is that?

While I'm here, has anyone said 'one CRITERION, several CRITERIA' yet? No one seems to know this any more as I never see the singular correctly used, even on the BBC and other 'serious' sources. People say 'The criteria is....' who really should know better.

The word "biscuit" has moved on considerably in American English and in British English from its original meaning of twice cooked.

This article may be more than anyone wants or needs to know about how the modern American biscuit evolved from its twice or more baked antecedents.

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2023/01/30/history-of-american-biscuits

I'll see your irregardless and raise you unthaw.

Another one: irregular past tenses being ignored, in particular “weaved” instead of “wove” or “woven”. You see it everywhere now, even in broadsheet newspapers (Guardian football report “He weaved through the defence before unleashing a shot”). What is the world coming to?!

Weaved is correct:

"weaved is used to refer to something moving back and forth in a zigzag pattern, while woven is used to refer to an object formed by intertwining together strands of material."
promova.com

see slso:
writingexplained.org/weaved-or-woven-correct#:~:text=Weaved%20and%20woven%20are%20both,contexts%2C%20they%20are%20not%20interchangeable.

I'm not sure I agree with that. If you were talking about a tv series, it could be 'hit and miss'. Hit in some aspects/episodes AND miss in others. Rather than just being a total hit OR a total miss.

I keep seeing disgusting written as discusting. And a lot,a bit etc written as one word.alot, abit etc.

Do you say e-ar (ee-uh) for ear?

Again I think there’s often a soft second syllable, but its not really relevant.
The word we were discussing isn’t nu -clear. (It’s nuc-le) - ar, one of the family of words derived from nucleus such as nucleate, in this case with the suffix -ar (not -ear.) The etymology may be from the French nucléaire, which makes the three syllable construction obvious.

Ect, ect,, ect…

Thank you for this article. It's made me keen to try making some.

I know it’s like an unstoppable tide now, but ‘outside of’, where the ‘of’ just isn’t needed - outside of the town centre, etc.