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 feel rage when, people put, commas in completely, random places.

Also hate "a three-years-old child" and similar constructions.

There are some really peculiar choices of preposition on this site sometimes, such as someone describing being angry "of" something.

Again with prepositions, when people say things like, "The boy to whom I gave the book to."

I’ve noticed an increasing number of people online using he’s instead of his, and vice versa.

I definitely have my pet peeves—like “draw” for “drawer” but often these are simply eggcorns or signs that the speaker never saw the written version so is just writing her dialect version. And i try not to get mad at dialect differences.

I used to go very hard in the less/fewer issue but was aggressively attacked for the distinction being really classist by a working class professor acquaintance. Actually its an important and interesting linguistic feature to distinguish between kinds of things when counting. In Nepali, for example, you need to add a different qualifying word to count people than you do when you count things or animals.

off of I stepped off of the pavement also gifted it used to be given

*others'

...,,,- ""

Here's some punctuation for you 😃. You're welcome.

I literally explode when people misuse literally.

I know the recipe won't always call for this, but biscuit ("bis cuit") literally means "twice cooked" in French. And I mean literally in the old-fashioned sense.

Anyhoo being used instead of anyhow.

Some of these are quite niche when you consider the more egregious examples we see on Mumsnet daily.

• alot even autocorrects to “a lot” on here as I type, yet I see the spelling “alot” so many times a week on Mumsnet.

• loose instead of lose, such as “I struggled to loose weight before Mounjaro”

Those two are so prevalent that I bet someone will come on and argue that I’m wrong.

Lay instead of lie, e.g. 'I'm having a lay-in' or 'He lays down on the bed'. I think a lot of people have no idea that this is incorrect, or why!

When referring to decades as 80’s 90’s… it is 80s, 90s. Not sure why people always add in an apostrophe! Drives me mad…

Omg, I've found my thread😂.
Of instead of have
Phase instead of faze
And yous fucking boils my piss, both spoken and written.

Omg, I've found my thread😂.
Of instead of have
Phase instead of faze
And yous fucking boils my piss, both spoken and written.

Oh, we’re still here all right, fuming away on a daily basis.

And while I’m at it, more plurals - bus’s, box’s, even Christmas’s.

It's strange how these common errors seem to suddenly appear all over the place to me. I'm sure I didn't notice the he's/his abomination ten years ago. I keep seeing question marks and exclamation marks followed by a full stop these days too.

People are SO weirdly defensive about this subject. There's this myth that good written English is purely a preserve of the privileged upper classes - which is utter bollocks, frankly.

I'm a native English speaker but also teach 3 foreign languages, so I have grammar and language peeves in four languages It's a wonder my head remains (so far) unexploded!

Oh, and when referring to a family, ‘the Smith’s, the Green’s, etc.

I stop reading posts when people say things like 'we was going..'.

Also, someone I follow on Instagram did a post about baked potatoes this morning and referred to them throughout as 'baked potato's'.

Yaas Queen. Just silly.

Oh my goodness, yes! One is NOT 'gifted' something, one is GIVEN it!

Whether it is a hat, a cold, a birthday present, a sum of money or crabs is irrelevant. It is GIVEN.

Eh?

A forum I used to go on had an auto correct function where if anyone typed 'alot' it would correct it before posting to 'A LOT! A LOT! IT'S TWO WORDS!' 😂

I certainly heard people saying ‘he’s’ for ‘his’ decades ago, but I think these kind of errors are spreading so rapidly now because so many technically literate people only or chiefly encounter the written word online, on social media, chat sites etc.

Because these people aren’t slso reading novels or properly copyedited newspapers as well, if they see ‘She brought a Chester draws from he’s mother’, often enough, they have no reason to think it’s incorrect.

I have seen are used instead of our a few times on here. There was one a few days ago saying we went on are family holiday.