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

[AlertCat]

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.

But without the apostrophe! 🤓

It's Johns Hopkins' parents' fault (note careful placement of apostrophes on this thread, I am treading on eggshells!!!) for calling him "Johns" (his mother's maiden surname) instead of "John" - just imagining the trouble it must have caused him throughout his life gives me a nosebleed and makes all those MN threads about "should I choose Clara or Clarissa as my baby's name?" pale into insignificance.

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som

I work in the rail industry and the amount of times I’ve heard ‘St Pancreas’ is quite something!

Brought instead of bought. I've seen this a few times recently on MN and it's being repeated so not a typo.
Loose instead of lose.
Could of, would of.
There, their, they're.
Sat instead of sitting, stood instead of standing, etc.
Ah, that's better!!!!!

Pronouncing "says" as to rhyme with "gaze" and not "sez".
"Was sat" Did someone lead you there and plonk you down? No, you were sitting.
Grrrrrrrr.

Server: "Of course you can." (walks off ending conversation).

'You certainly can, the question is, may you?'

The sort of mistakes people make or don't make is often an indicator of what they read as a child.

One I see too often and saw again today: torturous. No, it's tortuous!

I'd still tell 'em! It's completely unacceptable.

Interesting. Does that mean your household never ‘do a/ the big shop’ either?

Certainly. Never 'a big shop'! Or 'a little shop', come to think of it. And it's not a regular weekly thing either. It's not as organised as that. Sometimes referred to as getting in supplies or going shopping / went shopping or went to Sainsbury's and got a lot of stuff / a few things. 'A shop' remains odd to my ears.

Really? I thought that was a very old expression, around way before the 1980s, to me it's something a great granny would say

Yes, it's an old, old expression.

I’d have said so too.
I’m not sure what is behind the expression - possibly similar to ‘fallen ill’ but it does sound horribly negative one way or another.

@AlertCat can someone borrow me £5 please?? wth does that mean??? it is

Same for me. But it's just not a common expression ("the shop" to refer to the act of shopping) in American English. I say "we did the weekly grocery shopping." The shop is a place, except we are more likely to say "store."

Love that book. See, grammar can save your life.

The American pronunciation of 'aluminium'. It's not 'aloominum' - there's an 'i' in it, for heaven's sake!

People who say 'The thing is, is...". You've already said 'is' once, no need for the repetition.

Also, 'There is loads'. No, there 'are' loads.

And don't get me started on 'should of'... 😂

I'm sure someone can learn you.

Unthoughtful 😡

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology

ETA: Ah sorry, I replied to the wrong poster 🤷🏻‍♀️
But that wiki shows both aluminium and aluminum. Aluminum is standard in the US and aluminium is standard in the UK.
I bought my phone in the US and never bothered to change the spellcheck and it’s showing aluminium as an error 😃

Aluminium is definitively correct, globally. OTOH, so is sulfur.

https://iupac.org/what-we-do/periodic-table-of-elements/

That's a bit unwitful!

"I seen" instead of "I saw". Makes me cringe every time.

I hate “yous”! I work with someone who says “yous lot” or “yous guys” all the time and I have to bite my tongue so hard. I did correct her once and was told that I was wrong because she is dyslexic and that’s how it should be said 🤬

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

I can't speak for the person that question was intended for, but that's exactly how I pronounce it.