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.

@Tedsnan1 as i understand it they all come under Special Forces just separate branches so -SAS, SBS and another i can never remember the name off.

Exasperated instead of exacerbated.

Reign in instead of rein in - very common on here!

Using a comma where a semi-colon should be used.

Incomplete sentences punctuated as if complete (yes, I see the irony, but this is a list, not an essay...) I saw these all the time when teaching, and students couldn't understand why they were wrong. For example: 'He was the best candidate. Because of his experience'.

Also excessive use of 'chimes' and 'resonates with' which have both become annoying. Once you spot the trend, you can't unsee it.

Meanwhile, inspired by recent events ...

is it "pleaded" or "pled" ? or even "plead" as in "led" ? Quick " call Webster.

And whilst we're splitting hairs, preyed on or predated? Predators prey don't they? Not predate, surely? It sounds wrong. Please stop doing it BBC wildlife programmes.

"predate" is also correct... and an argument for keeping the hyphen in "pre-date" 😁

Using women to mean woman, singular. ‘A women’. Why???? I’m seeing it more and more

Underlining instead of underlying
Generally instead of genuinely
Of instead of have

I’ve never heard this one before but it got me thinking. If you’re talking about the pattern of blood at a crime scene then I’d go with “spatter”, but as a sound effect, it should be splatter. Like in an old comic book.

Isn't it "prey upon" ?

Who knows? Predate on? Predate upon? Kill and eat covers it I guess.

And . . . I'm here to be educated now. When someone is doing a sports commentary is s/he commenting or commentating?

I hate it when people saying “or no?”

Like, “Are we going shopping today or no?”

Makes my skin crawl. Say “or not?” 😤

Officially, commentating. They are the commentator of the match, the match commentator. (That looks so weird - I don't think I've ever written that word before!)

But if they say "That was good!" they're also commenting - making a comment - the same as if you made a comment at home.

A commentary implies an ongoing action, whereas a comment is a singular event ?

I am sure we are straying in perfect past and passive voices.

Thank you both. I've been quietly mulling that over for years but keeping it to myself as it's confused me and I don't know anyone who could answer it.

I’m excited for Christmas

No no … you’re excited ABOUT Christmas

Someone at work sends every single email, "please find attached x document for your perusal."

I don't need to peruse it. You don't need to give me a reason for sending it to me, I understand that you want me to look at the document - it's implicit. If you're lucky, I might read it. I will not be perusing the fucker.

It's got to be ect instead of etc - Very irritating 🙄

Free reign instead of free rein

Restbite. It’s respite FFS.

On a CV, I read that they had ‘experience at the cold face’.

There are so many things wrong with that. 🙄

I hate the song "I gotta feeling" and from the fucking black eye peas. Gotta is a contraction for "have got to".
What in the shit were those moronic rage-inducing fuckwits thinking when they called their stupid song with that brainless title?

"I've got a feeling".

Octopi is wrong. Octopus is a Greek word. The 'i' is a Latin plural. The Greek plural would be 'octopodes', but nobody says that. 'Octopuses' is the English plural.

I am sure that things being named "for" has happened since I grew up saying name "after" ....