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.

Please, no apostrophe in 60s! I can't understand the hospicle debacle. People must see it written down and wonder why they're not pronouncing the 't' though!

So if we agreed that I'd buy your house for "a million and a half pounds", you'd be expecting me to pay you £1,500,000 and not £1,000,000.50? You'd be wrong.

Nobody ever says "a thousand and a half pounds" or even "two million and a half pounds". The worst part is, it's increasingly crept into newsreaderspeak lately.

Repeating the frustration of people using ‘brought’ when they mean ‘bought’

I was at college with a girl (privately educated and now a medical doctor, so no slouch and well-read etc which often helps with spelling) who insisted that ‘a lot’ should be written as ‘alot’, one word. No idea where she got that from but we had a proper argument about it once. Has anyone else seen this being used?

Also remembering reading old books (as in printed a long time before) which used two apostrophes in words like ‘didn’t’: ‘did’n’t’ and ‘ca’n’t’. Again, is this familiar to anyone else?

So if we agreed that I'd buy your house for "a million and a half pounds", you'd be expecting me to pay you £1,500,000 and not £1,000,000.50? You'd be wrong.

You're surely not claiming that anyone would think the 'half' would refer to 50p? Since when has anyone referred to 50p as 'half a pound'? You may not like the phrasing, but nobody sane would actually take it to mean £1,000,000.50

Apostrophes in the wrong place. Not being able to tell the difference between 'you're' and 'your'. And getting 'affect' and 'effect' mixed up.

You really have to chill a bit - spell checkers, and "AI" assistants are now polluting the watercourses of our language.

No, never seen either of those examples...

I've seen "sha'n't" (for "shall not"), but not the others you mention. It was once considered correct to indicate all missing letters with an apostrophe.

I see a lot of ‘anyways’ lately. Where did that come from?

Which rather defeats the object if you are trying to save parchment and ink ....

America I think!

That's exactly what I'm claiming. What do you think 1,000,000.5 is? It's a million and a half, in the same way as 1.5 is one and a half.

Perhaps someone can explain this to me. Why are some names, with AR as second and third letters often abbreviated to AZ?. Gary, Sharon, Gazza, Shazza there must be others? And Derek becomes Del. Why? It irritates me that I don't know.

Not everywhere- in Cardiff and Bristol, you get Der, Gar, Shar… I think it defaults to the easiest sound to make for that particular accent. East End London adds the L sound maybe because they have a weak R, while in the West Country it’s a famously strong R? I’m guessing.

I absolutely HATE to see Sarah shortened to Saz. It's horrible.

Those names get shortened like Baz, Gaz etc all seem to have an R sound in the middle. Barry, Gary, Harry, Sharon, Sarah.

If you were put there you were seated. No excuse for I was sat. At all. Ever.

Pack lunch. It's packED lunch.

Pack lunch. It's packED lunch.

I just came to say that. We must have seen the same thread.
The -ed seems to be increasingly left off the ends of words.

'I text her.'
'She's very bias.'

Yes and "a chill morning". Chilled, surely?

He did amazing. Amazingly!!!

It's one more syllable, not difficult.

No. A chill morning is a cold one and grammatically correct. A chilled morning is something completely different.

Surely you mean chilly, chill isn't usually an adjective

Chilly morning = cold morning.

Although, writers like Tolkien use phrases like “a chill wind” so Blossomtoes may be correct here. Or are there rules around use of chill vs chilly?

It is in some places ...

"Yo ! Man ! Dem t'reads is chill man !"

I'll get my coat.

Yes, but in your example chill doesn't mean on the cold side does it?